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for allSuitable ages How to Book VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY BOAT TRIPS We offer a range of expertly guided Voyages to suit most needs Call Us Voyage & 01437 721911 Shearwater Voyage This is our most popular sailing, being suitable for globe Book Online all ages and abilities and affording a unique mix of A one and a half hour evening voyage around wildlife, spectacular sea-caves and rock gorges. Ramsey Island and then further out to the Sailing around the RSPB reserve, we navigate waters of the . Viewing the www.ramseyisland.co.uk close inshore, stopping at various points to view colonies of , seals and watching the tens  the large colonies of grey seals, and to of thousands of migrating shearwaters as the Booking Office Rated the No.1 Boat Trip Operator in watch porpoise in Ramsey Sound. A fully guided 1 sun sets. Fully guided 1½ hour wildlife voyage. 1 High Street, St Davids SA62 6SA (Opposite Lloyds Bank) hour wildlife voyage, a family favourite! £34 Per person £28 Per person, £15 Under 5’s 4 P A487 Island Voyage Islands Voyage St Davids Allowing a little more time to discover and Experience a spectacular voyage, sailing Nun St explore the wildlife over a greater area, this Car Parking across Bay to the visit the home voyage encompasses all the caves, rock gorges, of 22,000 Puffins and 350,000 pairs of Manx , seals and porpoises of Ramsey and then if 1. Merrivale Car Park Shearwaters as well as myriad other seabirds. 2. Quickwell Hill Car Park conditions allow we may head out a little further 3. Oriel y Parc Car Park Keep your eyes open for harbour porpoise and to the Bishops Islands depending on the time of 4. St Davids RFC Car Park the occasional pod of common dolphin. year. Fully guided 2 hour wildlife voyage. Nun St Fully guided 2 hour wildlife voyage. £52 Per person 2 £52 Per person P BOOK New St Glasfryn Rd HERE Offshore Islands North Pit St The Pebbles Coast Voyage High St P Goat St A487 A487 Whale & Dolphin Voyage 1 Oriel y Park Gallery & Visitor Centre A 2hr Evening Voyage heading up the North Bryn Rd We first sail to Island, a spectacular P Coast of St Davids Peninsula to the historic 3 sight, home to the fourth largest gannet fishing Harbour of Porthgain. Also visiting colony in the world. We then head offshore Whitesands Bay, St Davids Head, and A Carbon Neutral® Company on a sweep of distant waters in search of cetaceans. This voyage has provided excellent the Bluelagoon. Watch the tens of thousands of sightings of dolphin, porpoise, risso’s dolphin, Shearwaters as the sunsets. Suitable for all ages and abilities including young children minke and even fin whale and leatherback £48 Per person turtle. Fully guided 2½ hour wildlife voyage. Dry quayside boardingP St Davids Cathedral

Gospal Ln £62 Per person Life jackets fitted for children andFfordd Caerfai adults.

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New St from ourGoat St office on request university groups, disabled access voyages A487 Oriel y Parc Gallery A487 &Visitor Centre Voyages Suitable for all ages and boat charter. Parking available or useBryn of Rd our Eco- Friendly Bryn Rd Shuttle Bus from St Davids Ffordd Caerfai All vessels have full forward seating

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for allSuitable ages Area Map VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY ramseyisland.co.uk St Davids Head The only local family run company and we operate For nearly 30 years we have offered only the the largest and most modern fleet, which helps us St Davids to be the most popular voyage on the coast. finest expeditions for families, groups and The Ramsey Bishops individuals. & Clerks Ramsey Island Skomer Island Booking Office RSPB Ramsey Island is famed for its wildlife, notably its Skomer Island, the largest of the Pembrokeshire Islands St Justinians seal and populations. at around 730 acres is owned by Natural Resources As home to one of the UK’s largest colonies of Atlantic (NRW) and managed by the Wildlife Trusts of South and grey seals Ramsey offers superb seal watching. Their West Wales (WTSWW). numbers peak in late summer and early autumn when Though barely a mile off the Pembrokeshire coast, it is St. Brides Bay they have their pups but can be observed throughout separated by a treacherous stretch of water known as the year at close quarters. Jack Sound, home to hidden rocks and reefs and very The strong of the Ramsey Sound also hold a strong tidal currents. This isolation helps to keep the resident family of harbour porpoise which we see island free of land predators, making it an ideal habitat most days. for breeding seabirds, especially those that are burrow In spring and early summer the rock ledges are nesters, such as the puffins and Manx shearwaters Skomer teeming with guillemots, and kittiwakes. Skomer is the largest puffin colony in southern Britain, Puffins, resident on the outer islands of the reserve are with recent counts putting the number of individual a regular sight as are gannets from Grassholm Island. puffins at over 22,000. Puffins are very social and Photographers delight at the close proximity of these gregarious birds and will flock together in large numbers Smalls Grassholm and other rare species including chough and falcons. and it is possible to sit surrounded by thousands of Lighthouse On the western side of Ramsey is an awesome, puffins, on the water as well as in the air. The sheltered spellbinding and almost lunar landscape of deep sea bays around the island are perfect for seeing them at caves, towering sea cliffs and breathtaking rock gorges. close proximity in their natural environment, often We venture into the caves no matter what the state returning with beaks overflowing with sandeels! of staying just long enough to marvel at their The UK is home to over 80% of the world’s Manx Offshore Islands architecture. Shearwater population and more than half of these breed The nutrient- rich waters from the Atlantic produce a prolific Skimming across powerful tides, entering on the Pembrokeshire Islands. Between Ramsey, Skomer, ecosystem noted as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Here on the dramatic caves, navigating the intricate Skokholm and , that amounts to nearly a the edge of the Celtic Deep is one of the few places in the UK where shoreline together with the wildlife this is million visiting birds, with Skomer, the largest of the cetaceans, seals and birdlife can be found in large numbers. natural interest at its best. colonies, seeing an estimated 350,00 pairs of Manx First we sail to Grassholm Island, a Voyage of 12 miles to Shearwaters arriving each Spring to breed! study the second largest gannet colony in the Northern Hemisphere (70,000 plus birds). From here we make a sweep of the waters and if possible, using underwater hydrophones to aid detection of cetaceans. There are regular sightings of Minke Whale and Orca Whale, occasional sightings of Fin and Pilot Whale and almost daily sightings of Porpoise, Bottlenose, Common and Risso’s Dolphin. Our best sailing produced over 500 dolphin, 15 Minke Whale and 2 Orca Whale in one voyage. We also encounter large Basking Shark, Sunfish and Leatherback Turtles. For Children, Adults and Photographers this is a premier sailing.