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NEWT’s Guide to Bottlenose Dolphins in Northumberland
A lot of our clients are very familiar with Northumberland’s marine wildlife so the question “Where have these Bottlenose Dolphins come from? I can’t remember them being here until the last few years.” is a regular one… Until 2012 Bottlenose Dolphin was a rare animal in Northumberland waters and when I was researching/writing the cetacean…
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Fade to black; NEWT’s North Sea pelagic 11/08/17
As we gathered at Royal Quays for our final 4hr evening pelagic for this year, ahead of our switch to 10hr ‘Northumberland Ultimate Pelagic’ sailings from next Wednesday, there was a stiff breeze, but it was coming off the land so not a great problem for a sailing where we were planning to stay fairly…
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Bottlenose Dolphins; Farne Islands safari 06/06/2014
Whenever I head out for a day guiding clients, I have a plan. Occasionally we deviate from that plan… I was heading to collect Liz and Mark from the Lord Crewe in Bamburgh, for their Farne Islands prestige tour, and I thought I knew what we’d be doing throughout the day – a walk along…