Well what a day. 2 boat trips, & incredible wildlife. Only to be ruined by a problem with my camera! Have rescued some photos so it wasn't totally ruined, but it did really upset me for a while, but here goes.
Started with a trip to Portree to go out on the boat, mainly hoping to see sea-eagles. While waiting for the boat, we saw a mink! Our first ever in the wild!!
Good start! We hadn't been out long, when we saw our first eagle flying, thought that was great, but a couple of minutes later another one was spotted & it came quite close to get a fish - what a beautiful bird!
So lucky to get that close, although photo is poor sorry.
We were then lucky enough to see 2 more, one was sat minding it's own business & another one came into it's territory - not a good move, it left quite soon!!!
We then saw some common seals. went back to shore more than happy.
We enjoyed it that much, we went straight to Tourist Information to look for another. There was one going from Uig. So after a quick bite, we took off for Uig to get the next boat.The first trip was 2 hours, this was 3 ......
Once again we hadn't been gone long before we came across a sea eagle
Cute eh? It was lovely out there, not a ripple on the water, the skipper couldn't believe how calm it was. We were looking for pilot whales, dolphins etc, but weren't holding out much hope, when suddenly a pod of bottle-nosed dolphins came alongside. What an experience it was just amazing, they must have stayed with us for 30 minutes
Sorry for poor photo. We finished off with the Puffins - can't complain at that!!!
Pizza on way home - perfect end to perfect day - will skip the bit when I found most of my photos were rubbish!!!
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