Overview
** Just one male cabin sharing place left! ** Our best-selling St Kilda expedition cruise from Oban offers an adventurous (and weather-dependant!) itinerary aiming to enable guests to spend time walking on Hirta, the main island of St Kilda (with packed lunches provided). Your cruise will visit at least one other remote island as well during our transit to or from St Kilda, located 40 miles west of the Isle of Harris in the Atlantic. This little archipelago punches well above its weight, being the UK's only dual UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to huge numbers of seabirds plus cetaceans in its surrounding waters. All our St Kilda cruises uniquely offer a comprehensive cruise not just to the Stacs and Boreray, but also around Hirta and Soay (weather dependent) for close up views of the dramatic sea cliffs, bird colonies, local Soay sheep, and rock formations. Sightings and findings from previous similar cruises: Arctic skua – basking shark – black guillemot – bottlenose dolphins – common dolphins – gannets – golden eagle – great northern diver – great skuas – guillemots – humpback whale – kittiwakes – Leach’s petrels – long-tailed skua – Manx shearwaters – minke whales – otters – peregrine – pomarine skua – porpoise – puffins – razorbills – red-throated divers – Risso’s dolphins – sea eagle – seals – Soay sheep – St Kilda mouse – St Kilda wren – storm petrels – sunfish – whale vertebrae found on beach – white-beaked dolphins.
