{"id":1782,"date":"2012-09-18T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2012-09-18T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:32:51","slug":"seal-of-approval-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/seal-of-approval-2","title":{"rendered":"Seal of approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s always something special about days out with clients who have a connection with the north east; often we’ll visit locations that they haven’t seen for a long time, and they’ll share their memories of the place.\u00a0 One thing that’s constant though, is that they always have a passion for Northumberland, no matter how long they’ve been away, or where they live now.<\/p>\n

I collected Dickie and Caroline from Church Point and we set off on the drive north along the Northumberland coast, heading towards Seahouses.\u00a0 The main part of the trip was a Seal Cruise<\/a> on Glad Tidings 5, although in the ‘stiff’ breeze I wasn’t certain that we’d be sailing.\u00a0 We arrived in Seahouses to be greeted by the good news that we would be sailing, and the ‘interesting’ news that a party of 30 schoolchildren was booked on the same sailing.\u00a0 As we headed across to the islands, with John expertly guiding the boat to avoid everyone getting wet (as far as possible!) the school party were having a whale of a time.\u00a0 Then when the first Grey Seals<\/strong><\/em> began to bob their heads up out of the water and stare at the boat they got really excited \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Gannets<\/strong> <\/em>were soaring overhead, Turnstones<\/strong><\/em> and Purple Sandpipers<\/strong><\/em> were fluttering around the base of the rocks, staying just above the breaking surf, and Shags<\/strong> <\/em>and Eiders<\/strong> <\/em>were bobbing around in the increasing swell.\u00a0 After an exciting journey back to the mainland, we had our picnic stop in the shadow of Bamburgh Castle, and only a few hundred yards from where Dickie and\u00a0 Caroline used to live.\u00a0 A big bull Grey Seal<\/strong><\/em> made his way north just beyond the surf, and Caroline went for a paddle in the icy-cold sea \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 As we made our way back down the coast (after a Caroline-requested stop at Swallow Fish in Seahouses), the weather was an extraordinary mixture of blue sky, sunshine and that breeze…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s always something special about days out with clients who have a connection with the north east; often we’ll visit locations that they haven’t seen for a long time, and they’ll share their memories of the place.\u00a0 One thing that’s constant though, is that they always have a passion for Northumberland, no matter how long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,11,20,105,5],"tags":[149,185,835,176,377,359],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bamburgh-castle","category-farnes","category-grey-seal","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","tag-eider","tag-gannet","tag-grey-seal","tag-purple-sandpiper","tag-shag","tag-turnstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}