Wildlife in Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park enjoys a real variety of spectacular native wildlife. As well as attracting tourists from all corners of the globe, Pembrokeshire also succeeds in attracting a real A-list of celebrity wildlife to our coastline, including whales and sharks!
Check out the National Park Authority’s Wildlife Calendar to find out what you can see where and when throughout the seasons.
Much of our wildlife travels incredible distances through the sea to reach our shoreline including seals, basking sharks, turtles, whales, dolphins and fish like sunfish, jellyfish and tope (a member of the shark family).
If bird watching interests you, you’ll be spoilt for choice on our shores.
Look out along the coast for shags, gannets, puffins, razorbills, guillemots, peregrine falcons, red kites and many more.
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Whale & Dolphin Watching
Pembrokeshire’s Offshore Islands are considered as one of the UK’s prime whale watching locations. Board one of our purpose built vessels with a specialist guide on board and we head towards Grassholm, home to the second largest gannet colony in the Northern Hemisphere. From here we make a sweep of the surrounding nutrient rich waters looking for cetaceans. There are regular sightings of minke whale and orca, almost daily sightings of porpoise, bottle nose and common dolphin whilst occasional sightings of fin and pilot whale.
You must remember that these mammals are wild and we can’t always guarantee sightings.
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Island Odyssey
Be a part of this exhilarating experience where you can see puffins (Pembrokeshire Penguins), seals and much more. You will leave Lawrenny Quay for an exciting boat trip in a 12 seater high speed RIB along the famous
Milford Haven estuary into the open sea and on to Skomer Island
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Evening Puffin and Shearwater boat trip
A wonderfully, relaxing way of spending an evening. Voyage to the outer islands to see the puffins and the
incredible passage of the shearwaters as they return to their burrows on the grassy slopes of the islands.
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Skomer & Ramsey Island boat trips
Skomer Island (a Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve) and Ramsey Island (an RSPB Nature Reserve) offer spectacular bird & wildlife watching opportunities and you can expect to see plenty of life through all seasons!
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