Recommendations for puffin tours

[Julia Hanauer-Milne]

An avid birding friend is coming from California and wants to see puffins and other seabirds. She is worried about being seasick, though. Any recommendations for tours with good birds and a lower chance of being seasick? 

Thanks!

[Charles Duncan]

There are several day-trips organized by the Audubon Hog Island Camp out to the famous seabird colony at Eastern Egg Rock: May 29, June 4, plus a family-day outing on May 31.  These leave from Bremen on a good stable boat and include birding/hiking and lunch on Hog Island as well as the boat trip.  https://hogisland.audubon.org/programs/hog-island-day-trips.

The Hardy Boat from Newcastle does shorter (and less expensive) puffin tours also with Audubon naturalists.  Choose a day with mild seas and you’re all set.  https://hardyboat.com/puffin-watch/

—Charles

Charles D. Duncan

76 Emery Street

Portland, Maine 04102, USA

charles....@gmail.com

207.871.9295

On Mar 22, 2021, at 7:46 PM, Julia Hanauer-Milne <windyri...@gmail.com> wrote:

An avid birding friend is coming from California and wants to see puffins and other seabirds. She is worried about being seasick, though. Any recommendations for tours with good birds and a lower chance of being seasick? 

Thanks!

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[Becky Marvil]

Julia,

 

The Acadia Birding Festival pelagic will be on June 5 on the Bar Harbor Whale Watch boat (big and very stable) and we will definitely see puffins and other seabirds.

 

Becky

 

Becky Marvil

http://acadiabirdingfestival.com

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[Rich MacDonald]

Acadia Puffin Cruise, out of Winter Harbor (at the head of the Schoodic Peninsula) offers a wonderful, small boat trip to Petit Manan Island. They traverse mostly-sheltered waters. You can find them online.

 

 

Richard MacDonald

The Natural History Center

P.O. Box 6

Bar Harbor, Maine 04609

207/266-9461

Ri...@TheNaturalHistoryCenter.com

www.TheNaturalHistoryCenter.com

www.facebook.com/TheNaturalHistoryCenter

 

From: Maine-birds <maine...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Julia Hanauer-Milne <windyri...@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, March 22, 2021 at 7:46 PM
To: Maine-birds <maine...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [Maine-birds] Recommendations for puffin tours

 

An avid birding friend is coming from California and wants to see puffins and other seabirds. She is worried about being seasick, though. Any recommendations for tours with good birds and a lower chance of being seasick? 

 

Thanks!

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