Longships Lighthouse

By Iain Harper

We visit the iconic Longships Lighthouse on our 3-hour Wildlife Watching Tour and often see grey seals basking on the rocks. Here’s a brief history of the lighthouse… Longships Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1875 to replace a shorter tower built upon rocks at the extreme south-west of Britain’s mainland The headland is…

Grey Seals

By Iain Harper

We’re lucky and often see these fantastic animals during our Wildlife Watching Tours along the mainland coast and in more abundance further off shore on the rocky Islets of Wolf Rock and Longships. Description: Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) have grey and brown fur, sometimes with a pattern of blotches; no ears visible; long muzzle; nostrils parallel;…