Hebridean Princess, St Kilda & Outer Isles Wildlife ex Oban Return
7 Night Cruise sailing from Oban roundtrip aboard Hebridean Princess.
As the remotest part of the British Isles, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of St Kilda forms the most important seabird breeding site in northwest Europe. With cliffs, sea stacks and grassy slopes, the islands are ideally suited to nesting birds like puffin, kittiwake, fulmar, razorbill and guillemot.
Itinerary:
Tuesday 7th May
Oban - Embarkation.
Wednesday 8th May
Kilmory Bay, Rum - beach landing - red deer. Cruise west coast of Skye.
Thursday 9th May
Loch Dunvegan, Skye - Seal Colony/ Dunvegan Castle. North Uist - Balranald Bird Reserve/Trinity Temple.
Friday 10th May
Shiant Isles - Seabird cliffs by small boat. Stornoway, Lewis - Ravens Point & Loch Erisort/Lews Castle Museum.
Saturday 11th May
Cruise St Kilda archipelago and seabird cliffs/ land at Village Bay Hirta. Cruise towards Barra.
Sunday 12th May
Castlebay, Barra - Island Tour/looking for Raptors. Cruise the Sea of the Hebrides.
Monday 13th May
Lunga - Puffins by local boat. Tobermory, Mull - walks ashore/look for Sea Eagles.
Tuesday 14th May
Oban - Disembarkation.
| Cruise Itinerary | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Activity | Arrive | Depart |
| 07/05/24 | Oban, Scotland | ||
| 08/05/24 | Isle of Rum, Scotland | ||
| 09/05/24 | Dunvegan, Scotland | ||
| 09/05/24 | Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland | ||
| 10/05/24 | Shiant Isles, North West Scotland | ||
| 10/05/24 | Stornoway, Isle of Lewis - Scotland | ||
| 11/05/24 | At sea | - | - |
| 12/05/24 | Castlebay, Barra Scotland | ||
| 13/05/24 | Lunga, United Kingdom | ||
| 13/05/24 | Tobermory, Scotland | ||
| 14/05/24 | Oban, Scotland | ||