The season turns
Puffin season is over: the seals take the stage
The puffins have left the cliffs for the winter, so this is the seals' season now: hauled out at Rue Point, bobbing in the coves, shining. We are sailing into late September, most weeks three or four days. The seals never leave.
Sail with the seals
Where did the puffins go?
Three tours sail from Ballycastle harbour.
Here's what's on the water and what each one is like, so pick your pace. Every booking button opens the live calendar.
Carrick-a-Rede: Rope Bridge, Cliffs, Caves & Waterfalls
1 hour 30 minutes · Adults £27 · Under 16s £19 · Infants £4
Our shortest and easiest tour! The famous rope bridge the way tourists never see it: from the water, looking up. Past Kinbane Castle, chalk cliffs, sea caves and waterfalls. Made for the whole family and anyone who'd rather have a comfy seat than a cliff path: the Causeway Coast without the climb.
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Rathlin Seals & Lighthouses Tour
About 2 hours · Adults £35 · Under 16s £27.50
The quieter season's own cruise. Two hours into Rathlin Sound: across to the seal haul-outs, past the towering cliffs, the lighthouses and Bruce's Cave, where a king hid in 1306. The seals never leave.
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Wild Rathlin: Seals, Lighthouses & Island Landing Experience
About 3.5 hours · Adults £42 · Under 16s £27.50
The big island day in its quieter season. Rathlin's towering cliffs and sea caves, seals in the coves, the lighthouses from the sea, then a full hour ashore at Church Bay to explore, visit the Boathouse and grab a bite before the sail home. Scenery plus landfall.
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Arrive 15 minutes before departure · layers and flat shoes · toilets onboard
Weather dependent. We can't guarantee wildlife, but we always do our best to find it.
