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Morning, noon (ish) and night. That’s the survey complete and is tucked up at home in front of the fire to defrost. What a beautiful winter’s day!

#orkney #westrayfirth #esas #surveyday #sunnywinterday #coldandcrisp #frozenfeet

Red sky in the morning…… means it’s way too early and I should still be in bed! Cracking conditions for our seabird survey today. Hot water bottle…. ✅ Feet warmers…. ✅ Hand warmers…. ✅ Copious amounts of coffee…. ✅

#orkney #esas #surveywork #onaboat #wintersurvey #gonnabeacoldone

When power cuts strike…. Huge thanks to the hydro guys who are currently either already in Sanday trying to fix the issue or are winging their way here by boat. They always go above and beyond to fix things as quickly as they can.

#powercut #hydroproblems #sanday #orkney #dinnerbycandlelight

4 years ago today I led the response to this #stranded killer whale. Don’t think I’ll ever forget that moment I got out the car & could hear it calling or the ‘oh f#*k’ moment when I saw what I was dealing with! Thank god #Sanday has the community it does or this wouldn’t have ended so well…
#orkney

Merry dancers over the house last night. What a show! One of the best we’ve seen in the 9 1/2 years we’ve been here!

#sanday #orkney #northernlights #auroraborealis

Back out on the high seas guest speaking on #fredolsen #bolette Highlights have been some great #dolphin action with common, striped and Atlantic spotted dolphins all putting on a show for guests so far. Almost nailed True’s beaked whale too but it breached the wrong way 🫣😂
#whalegeek #cruisinglife

The A9 was looking suitably wintry yesterday as we headed south for our next adventure. Today, apparently it’s heavy snow falling in places so we’d have struggled to get through!

#A9 #scotland #snow #stormbert #offonournextadventure

A frustrating encounter in #Sanday #Orkney with 5 of the 27s pod from Northern Isles Community #killerwhales on Tuesday. Poor weather conditions and heavy seas meant for poor photos. Still, enough to confirm the identity of bull #34 from the pod with his distinctive notch at the top of his fin!