Dolphin and Marinelife Photography Day Course

Locations: Brixham, Dartmouth 

 Duration: 8+ hours and 4hour

Dates: 24th May, more to follow soon

Welcome aboard the Dolphin Watch UK excursion with added photography support! Something that is so important when you go on a wonderful trip such as this, is making sure you have the memories to remember it by. Dolphins breaking the water, birds diving for fish, Seals checking you out and the occasional Basking Shark.

The problem is that you can’t ask them to hold on while you frame the shot. Leaving the camera on Auto might get a picture, but will it get you something that you are happy to talk about for ages with friends!

The idea behind having Simon Palmer on board with Dolphin Watch is to get to grips with a better understanding of the fundamentals of photography. Knowing how to use the camera gives you a better chance of making the picture you want. While it’s never guaranteed that it will happen every time, it will increase your chance of it!

Simon will cover using Aperture, ISO, and Shutter to gain a better photograph along with other tools and composition ideas. Even at Sea!!

Learn more about the way you can change your settings to:

• Birds in flight

• Birds diving

• Dolphins breaching

• When you aren’t seeing wildlife what can you see?

• Abstracts - Waves, ocean, and ships

• Landscapes, seascapes, skyscapes

• Catching Sunrise/set

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You can find out more about Simon, his experience in the industry and why we are teaming up  by Clicking HERE

Trip information

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Depending on the location you are departing from you will be advised on the best car parking and the meeting point in both email and over the phone.  You will also receive the full details you need to know about your trip. Please bring warm clothes and full waterproofs, particularly during the colder months, but also on warmer summer days as you do just never know, please bring plenty of food and water for those not with the packed lunch option.  There are full working toilets on our boats and teas, coffees and biscuits are provided.  Binoculars and a camera are recommended.

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Although we cannot guarantee any specific wildlife sightings myself and the skippers will work their hardest to make sure we do. 

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If sadly the conditions aren't quite right to head out to sea for the full 8+ hours, we will either shorten the trip duration to 5-6 hour or reschedule, as much as we all love to see and be close to the marine wildlife, it's not worth making anyone feel ill or endangering anyone's life.  But rest assured we will be in touch in the days before to communicate this.  

You can check out the local weather by CLICKING HERE.

All Day Dolphin & Marine Life Safaris

Locations: Brixham, Paignton, Torquay, Dartmouth, Weymouth, Fowey or St. Ives. Duration: 8+ hours

We generally start the day with a tour along the coastline searching for a few seals and harbour porpoises along the way, before heading on out to sea for the rest the our safari increasing our chances of finding the bigger pods of dolphins and ever hopeful of whales. We'll also see a host pelagic seabirds such as kittiwakes, terns, storm petrels, skuas and a variety of shearwaters some as rare as giant pandas along with a whole lot more. This trip is very popular with our guests wishing to see the most wildlife possible.

Trip information

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Depending on the location you are departing from you will be advised on the best car parking and the meeting point in both email and over the phone.  You will also receive the full details you need to know about your trip. Please bring warm clothes and full waterproofs, particularly during the colder months, but also on warmer summer days as you do just never know, please bring plenty of food and water for those not with the packed lunch option.  There are full working toilets on our boats and teas, coffees and biscuits are provided.  Binoculars and a camera are recommended.

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Although we cannot guarantee any specific wildlife sightings myself and the skippers will work their hardest to make sure we do. 

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If sadly the conditions aren't quite right to head out to sea for the full 8+ hours, we will either shorten the trip duration to 5-6 hour or reschedule, as much as we all love to see and be close to the marine wildlife, it's not worth making anyone feel ill or endangering anyone's life.  But rest assured we will be in touch in the days before to communicate this.  

You can check out the local weather by CLICKING HERE.

Half Day Dolphin and Wildlife Watching Safari

Location: Brixham, Paignton, Torquay, Dartmouth, Weymouth or St. Ives. Duration: 4 hours

Like the full day we generally start the day with a tour along the coastline searching for a few seals and harbour porpoises along the way, before heading on out to sea for the rest the our safari increasing our chances of finding the bigger pods of dolphins including the rare white beaked and risso and ever hopeful of whales. We'll also see a host pelagic seabirds such as kittiwakes, terns, storm petrels, skuas and a variety of shearwaters some as rare as giant pandas along with a whole lot more. This trip is very popular with our guests wishing to see the most wildlife possible.  These trip run as both morning and afternoon trips and are ideal for families with younger children.

Trip information

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Depending on the location you are departing from you will be advised on the best car parking and the meeting point in both email and over the phone. You will also receive the full details you need to know about your trip. Please bring warm clothes and full waterproofs, particularly during the colder months, but also on warmer summer days as you do just never know, please bring plenty of food and water for those not with the packed lunch option. There are full working toilets on our boats and teas, coffees and biscuits are provided. Binoculars and a camera are recommended.

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Although we cannot guarantee any specific wildlife sightings myself and the skippers will work their hardest to make sure we do. 

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Sadly if the conditions aren't quite right to head out to sea for the full 4 hours, we will either shorten the trip duration to 2-3 hour or reschedule, as much as we all love to see and be close to the marine wildlife its not worth making anyone feel ill or endangering anyones life.  But rest assured we will be in touch in the days before to communicate this. You can check out the local weather by CLICKING HERE.

2 Hour Dolphin & Marine Life Safaris

Locations: Brixham, Paignton, Torquay, Dartmouth or Weymouth.

  Duration: 2+ hours

We like start the trip with a tour along the coastline towards Berry head and Dartmouth or Portland searching for a few seals and harbour porpoises along the way, before heading a few miles out the rest the our safari increasing our chances of finding the bigger pods of dolphins and ever hopeful of whales. We'll also see a host pelagic seabirds such as kittiwakes, terns, storm petrels, skuas and a variety of shearwaters some as rare as giant pandas along with a whole lot more. This trip is very popular with our guests wishing to see the most wildlife possible. These are normally evening trips but can be arranged during the day as well.

Trip information

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Depending on the location you are departing from you will be advised on the best car parking and the meeting point in both email and over the phone.  You will also receive the full details you need to know about your trip. Please bring warm clothes and full waterproofs, particularly during the colder months, but also on warmer summer days as you do just never know, please bring plenty of food and water for those not with the packed lunch option.  There are full working toilets on our boats and teas, coffees and biscuits are provided.  Binoculars and a camera are recommended.

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Although we cannot guarantee any specific wildlife sightings myself and the skippers will work their hardest to make sure we do. 

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If sadly the conditions aren't quite right to head out to sea for the full 2+ hours, we will either shorten the trip duration to 1.5 hour or reschedule, as much as we all love to see and be close to the marine wildlife, it's not worth making anyone feel ill or endangering anyones life.  But rest assured we will be in touch in the days before to communicate this.  

can check out the local weather by CLICKING HERE.

Fish & Chip Supper with a chance of dolphins 

Location: Brixham. Duration: 4 hours

These are new trips for us and only running during the summer months and into autumn while daylight hours let us. These are still dolphin and marine life excursions but with the very best local fish and chips and hopefully the most amazing ocean sunsets views. As with our full day trips we'll start along the coastline keeping our eyes open for the local resident harbour porpoises and seals. We will then head out to sea for the remainder of the our safari, hopefully increasing our chances of finding various dolphin species including the playful Commons, large Bottlenose, majestic White Beaked and the rare Risso's, before heading back in for the sunset photo opportunity.

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This trip is very popular with our guests whats could be better than eating fish and chips, dolphin watching as the sun goes down with a chilled glass of wine. Magical thats what I say.

Trip information

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Depending on the location you are departing from you will be advised on the best car parking and the meeting point in both email and over the phone.  You will also receive the full details you need to know about your trip. Please bring warm clothes and full waterproofs, particularly during the colder months, but also on warmer summer days as you do just never know, please bring plenty of food and water for those not with the packed lunch option.  There are full working toilets on our boats and teas, coffees and biscuits are provided.  Binoculars and a camera are recommended.

​

Although we cannot guarantee any specific wildlife sightings myself and the skippers will work their hardest to make sure we do. 

​

Sadly if the conditions aren't quite right to head out to sea for the full 4 hours, we will either shorten the trip duration to 2-3 hour or reschedule, as much as we all love to see and be close to the marine wildlife its not worth making anyone feel ill or endangering anyone's life.  But rest assured we will be in touch in the days before to communicate this.

You can check out the local weather by CLICKING HERE.

Brixham

April - 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 18th.

May - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 17th, 24th, 25th, 26th 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th.

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June - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 29th and 30th.

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July - 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 19th, 20th, 26th, 27th and 28th.

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Aug - 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 19th, 23rd, 24th and 25th.

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Sept - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th.

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Oct - 1st, 4th, 11th, 12th, 20th, 21st, 25th and 26th.

Fowey

DATES COMOING SOON...

St. Ives

DATES COMING SOON...

Weymouth

June - 12th, 17th, 20th and 27th 

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July - 12th, 17th, 18th, 24th and 25th

August - 1st, 2nd, 9th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 21st and 29th 

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September - 5th and 10th 

Dartmouth

April - (if Covid allows..)

12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 23rd, 24th, 25th and 30th.

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May - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, 9th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st.

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June - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 23rd, 25th, 26th and 27th.

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July - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th- 31st.

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August - To be confirmed shortly.

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September - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 25th and 26th. 

May - 31st

Lots more to come soon.....