Seabird trip to Pedra Branca, Eddystone Rock and the edge of the continental shelf 7th October 2018

摘要

In July 2008,Simon Mustoe and a group of birders hired the fishing boat La Golondrina, skippered by Morrie Wolf, to visit Pedra Branca for three consecutive days, leaving from Southport. It took me ten years to find another suitable vessel and organise a group to visit Pedra. This vessel was a large fishing boat, the Velocity skippered by David Wyatt with his son Albert as crew. The trip was planned many months in advance with the two last weekends booked in September in the hope of suitable weather for one of them. In fact the weather did not ease until the first weekend of October when a nice high arrived. The group arrived on the Saturday night to stay at the nearby Jetty House which offered very comfortable shared accommodation. We were welcomed by Rosalind with cakes and hot drinks before joining the skipper and his sons for a meal at the Southport Hotel - a nice way of meeting each other before the trip.