Seawolf Wildlife Tours
Rediscover Wonder.
Fall back in love with wildlife.
Maybe you’ve always been a wildlife lover. Maybe you want to share a passion with your kids. Maybe you want to finally see that creature that’s always captivated you. Or maybe you just want an adventure. Whatever it is, Caithness can reinspire your love of nature, or provide you with a new experience to remember forever.
Puffin Tours.
Adorable puffins are guaranteed on this tour of some of our busiest local puffin roosts with an experienced ecologist. Whether you have your own transportation or not, we will get you that sighting. But more importantly, the magical experience of the Caithness puffin colonies. Watch them take off and climb into their burrows to nestle and feed their young, flying overhead amongst other seabirds such as common and black guillemots, fulmar, razorbills, cormorants using high powered binoculars. Look out for our grey seals, or on a lucky day, out local whales and dolphins.
NOTE TO OUR BELOVED GUESTS: THIS IS NOT A BOAT TOUR. PUFFINS RESIDE AT THE TOPS OF THE CLIFFS YOU WILL VISIT.
There are easy routes for young children or tougher trails that get you up close for hardier hikers, roosts accessible by car or by public transportation from any Caithness Town! We'll suit this tour to you. Good walking boots are essential, and bookings are subject to cancellation during bad weather, which can cause dangerous conditions. Binoculars and ID guides provided. If you require transportation by car, please note that there is a fixed additional fee of £30 that can be paid on the day or by purchasing an additional ticket, and a minimum of 2 days notice. This covers both fuel and a driver.
All tours depart from Thurso Harbour, opposite Thurso Community cafe - Please note the campground is not affiliated with us, and you cannot book tours through them. We can however recommend the coffee, food, and milkshakes served there at the onsite Blue Door Diner.
Booking cancellations are subject to poor weather - high winds make many areas unsafe for walking. When winds reach speeds of over 20 mph, children will not be able to participate, and above 30, the tours will be cancelled.
£45 per adult
£15 per child
£30 per local adult
£10 per local child
Sunset Puffin Tours.
Caithness sunsets are pretty spectacular, and our puffins agree. Sunset is the best time to spot puffins as they come home to roost for the night in large numbers, and spend this time socialising and winding down. Watch them court their partners while the sun sets behind the Orkney Islands over the Atlantic Ocean.
NOTE TO OUR BELOVED GUESTS: THIS IS NOT A BOAT TOUR. PUFFINS RESIDE AT THE TOPS OF THE CLIFFS YOU WILL VISIT
Adorable puffins are guaranteed on this tour of some of our busiest local puffin roosts with an experienced ecologist. Whether you have your own transportation or not, we will get you that sighting. But more importantly, the magical experience of the Caithness puffin colonies. Watch them take off and climb into their burrows to nestle and feed their young, flying overhead amongst other seabirds such as common and black guillemots, fulmar, razorbills, cormorants using high powered binoculars. Look out for our grey seals, or on a lucky day, out local whales and dolphins. There are easy routes for young children or tougher trails that get you up close for hardier hikers, roosts accessible by car or by public transportation from any Caithness Town! We'll suit this tour to you. Good walking boots are essential, and bookings are subject to cancellation during bad weather, which can cause dangerous conditions. Binoculars and ID guides provided. If you require transportation by car, please note that there is a fixed additional fee of £30 that can be paid on the day or by purchasing an additional ticket, and a minimum of 2 days notice. This covers both fuel and a driver.
All tours depart from Thurso Harbour opposite the Thurso community cafe - Please note the campground is not affiliated with us, and you cannot book tours through them. We can however recommend the coffee, food, and milkshakes served there at the onsite Blue Door Diner.
Booking cancellations are subject to poor weather - high winds make many areas unsafe for walking. When winds reach speeds of over 20 mph, children will not be able to participate, and above 30, the tours will be cancelled.
£45 per adult
£15 per child
£30 per local adult
£10 per local child
Simmer Dim Nocturnal Wildlife Tour.
The Simmer Dim is the time of endless summer nights and long hours of amber and purple twilight in the North of Scotland. It also reveals the secrets of our Caithness noctural wildlife…with the help of a few extra gadgets.
Watch bats, otters, owls and seals by night with our starlight nightvision camera scope, and learn how to use a heterodyne bat detector to identify and find bats by their call as researchers do. Watch dozens of these normally invisible animals flit around your head, keeping an eye out for the local otters who go a-hunting at this time along Thurso River. It will be a truly magical experience. Find out how to protect them, bring them into your own gardens and rescue grounded babies as they learn to fly.
Talks will be lead by an experienced bat surveyor who spent 6 years as a researcher for the University of Edinburgh who will answer your questions like "Why do vampires turn into bats?", "Are they really blind?" and "How do they help humans?"
We depart from the corner of Brabster Street, Thurso, opposite Olive Cafe.
£15 per adult
£8 per child
Private Wildlife Tour of Caithness.
Thurso is home to a wonderful world of wildlife, but there is more to be seen outside of our town. Whether you want to be shown the puffins, gannets, guillemots and razorbills at Dunnet head, look out for whales and dolphins from the Duncansby stacks, or explore our inland mountains and moors looking for Red Deer Stags, Highland Cows and Hen Harriers sky dancing, we can show it to you. Available to those who have their own transport, though public transportation options are available for some locations. Binoculars and ID guides are provided, most tours will take a minimum of 2 hours. You will not be charged extra for going over this time. Booking cancellations are subject to poor weather - high winds make many areas unsafe for walking. When winds reach speeds of over 20 mph, children will not be able to participate, and above 30, the tours will be cancelled.
All tours depart from Thurso Harbour, opposite the community cafe, or alternatively we can pick you up from a location of your choice.
£30 per adult
£15 per child
