St.Martin's - seals and sun!

I had a problem loading last night - wifi here is intermittant!
Anyway, here are my weather ratings so far this camp!

IoS Weather Ratings
Day     1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Rating 6 10   4   8   5   6   5   6   5   9   5   6   5   7 10   7   7   9   9   9

Hopefully the spacing will be OK - anyway, you'll get the drift as we have had 7 sunny days on our tiime here so far. It's just rained!

Good camoflauge!

This post has pics of our great boat trip around the Eastern Isles to see the seals. We also got to see a couple of gannets, a peregrine which nests on Ragged Island, razor bills aplenty and a school of porpoises.

Chris lookng out for seals

The sun has been very bright on the few sunny days making photography via our little Sanyo camera a challenge. Also, the camera video sequences taken don't seem to transfer well to the blog. Here I am holding the side of the boat as we rolled and pitched our way aroud the north islands towards Round Island, where there is an automatic lighthouse, established in 1887.  



Anton at sea

Round Island Lighthouse

It is said that the youngsters take a boat through the gap!!