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Summer is whale-watching
season around
Orkney:
Visit
Orkney during the summer months, from
June through September and your chances of spotting a killer whale,
minke whale
or long-finned pilot whale in the waters around Scapa
Flow
are pretty good.
Any
time of year, you can
expect to see grey and common seals. They hang around coastal areas,
keeping
fat in Orkney's fish rich waters.
Whale watching for
landlubbers:
If
your sea legs aren't what they should be,
you are in luck. This is one place that you can whale watch from land.
Watch
the western waters, off the cliffs and shores of Orkney's western
islands and
you've a good chance of spotting a whale or two. Locals recommend both
Cantick
Head and the Old Man of Hoy,
as good
places from which to watch the waters for whales. And so do
the
Seawatch Foundation for whom a link is given at the bottom of the page.
But there's more......
If
you are
lucky you might also spot Atlantic white-sided dophin, white-beaked
dolphin, common
dolphin, bottle-nosed dolphin, harbor porpoise and the whale-sized
Risso's
dolphin. Or perhaps spotting a basking shark off the Old Man
of Hoy would make your holiday even more memorable? |
Eighteen different species
of whales and
cetaceans have been spotted:
Besides
the killer whale, minke whale and
long-finned pilot whale, Orkney whale watchers have seen:
Blue Whale
Beluga Whale
Sperm Whale
Sei Whale
Fin Whale
Northern Bottlenose Whale
Narwhal
Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Sowerby's Beaked Whale
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Whale watching 
