Seal Watching Harwich

A great opportunity to get involved in local wild life protection! Help identify and count seals and other wildlife from live photos. #hamfordwater, #waltonbackwaters, #wildlife. https://instantwild.zsl.org/projects/tham es

So many seals at the moment. On Saturday we counted 247 and 6 grey seal pups. Thank you to all our new and more so, our returning customers. We love it!

Last few bookable seats available on Seal spotter. From 01.04.2019 Gloria will be in service with over 1000 trips this year there is a day and time for everyone. But don't wait to long as we get usually fully booked. See seals, guaranteed! Tickets at sealwatching.co.uk

There she is. Afloat and ready to go. Hopefully the wind eases down and the damage to Hapny pier #harwich will be fixed soon so we can take lots of happy customers to the seals.

All ready to go. Gloria is finished and will be launched tomorrow. We take already bookings for April until October. Be quick. Important school holiday and weekend dates are filling fast.

A few ribs replaced, some planking corners redone, stern shoe and main timber for prop shaft replaced. Now a few layers of primer, colour, corcking and Gloria is ready to go.

Gloria is getting stripped. Once finished she will be yellow. Looks quiet sad at the moment but we will get there.

Our ever so popular christmas vouchers are now for sale on sealwatching.co.uk. Seal watching trips run all year around. In the cold months you see up to 400 seals, in the warm months up to 100 and thousands of birds have there winter home at hamford water. #christmasvouchers #sealwatching #Harwich #hamfordwater #wildlife #naturereserve

Don't miss out! Friday's and Sundays weather forecast is amazing and we have a few seats left on our seal watching trips. Lots of seals guaranteed.

October half term coming up. Seals guaranteed or free trip! Tickets online at www.sealwatching.co.uk 10% discount with: booktoday2018

Today's seal trip with Gloria was stunning. Lots of young people from Holland, Harwich, even Japan and lots of seals. The Pups are growing fast but they still play around like babies. Absolutly stunning, love it! #harwich, #essex, #bestdayout, #boattrip #sealwatching

Thank you for sharing such great photos.

We are ready for a busy summer season. Gloria has all her licences and is fully coded to MCA standards. First trip with Gloria is 22nd July. Seal Spotter is ready and can be hired for private seal trips throughout the summer season. #summer #dayout #families #essex #suffolk #harwich #sealwatching

Gloria on her way. Loaded in Plymouth and delivered on Wednesday at Levington. Hopefully everything goes to plan and we can drop her into the water on Friday or Monday.

it was a wonderful trip. So many seals. we were all so well looked after on the trip. Hope to do it again.

had a lovely trip to look at the seals today, John was amazing, he went above and beyond to get us back to Felixstowe today, a very big thank you to you all. Great trip for young or old, Would highly recommend.

We saw lots of seals both on the banks and in the water and all really enjoyed the trip. Can thoroughly recommend it.

We enjoyed a fabulous trip this morning and must have seen about 150 seals .... amazing to realise we have such wonderful wildlife right on our doorstep, after a choppy start it was a really lovely trip .... many thanks Chris we look forward to joining you for another trip very soon... ��

All good wishes & every success to you...

Lesley, Rob, Rakaiah & Lexi Barlow

This was a beautiful day out. From the nice relaxing boat trip to watching the seals in a lovely location. Will definately be going again x

This is an experience not to be missed! My 13 year old Grandaughter loved this for her Birthday treat. Lots of seals to see (binoculars included) and the boat trip is really enjoyable. Will be taking my 6 year old Grandaughter when shes not so nervous of boats! We loved it!

Thank you chris and to the skipper for taking myself and our home educator friends out to see the seals wild and free, we all had such and amazing time and would recommend it to anyone and everyone to go on the trip :)

My husband and I was looking for something to do whilst we have this lovely weather and chose the seal watching and we are so glad we did....the trip was fantastic, the skipper was friendly and funny, the boat was clean and the crew were very helpful, we were also loaned a good pair of binoculars so we could see close up but to be honest you get so close to the seals you dont really need them...we saw approximately 30 seals and they were happy for us to be close ...the trip was well organised and lasted 2 hours, the docks were well maintained and crew staff were there to answer any questions, we booked on line which was very easys but to can pay by cash or card on board but I would recomend booking in advance to ensure a space as the trips get booked quickly and a couple of people couldnt get in the trip as they had not booked.....well recommended, will definitely be returning

I can highly recommend this, if you decide to go on this trip you are in for a treat. The skipper ensured we were all comfortable and was highly informative and made the trip a pleasure. He explained everything in detail.The trip to the mud flats were the seals are was really enjoyable and when we arrived , oh my what a delight seals everywhere.!!! He navigated the boat as near as he could so we all had a chance to take photographs and see these beautiful creatures...... Cant praise this trip enough

Had a great time with my dad on Sunday on the Seal Spotter trip. ���



Very friendly and informative skipper.



Would thoroughly recommend it to anyone. So nice to be able to see the seals in their natural habitat.

Great trip , friendly captain , saw lots of seals and is best on a sunny day

Fantastic trip. We went last Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed it. Will be doing it again in the Summer (when it is much warmer for me). Thank you

Fantastic trip to see the seals, thoroughly enjoyed it & would recommend it to everybody. Friendly guys with lots of local knowledge and so many seals to see.

Fabulous trip out to see our local seal colony. Christian did a great job & the seals were as appealing & entertaining as ever. Definitely as good as Blakeney!

Both my wife and I had never done this boat trip before, so we booked on there website and thoroughly enjoyed the trip to see the seals at Hamford Water, so well organised and nice small boat with a group of only 10 people. We were given some history of Harwich and the harbour, also some information about the seals themselves.

When near to the seals we were all given binoculars as the boat cannot get too close the the seals etc

We would highly recommend this trip to anyone inc young children, we had a glorious hot sunny day which made a big difference to trip.

Amazing lovely trip to watch the seals! This is a real joy and pleasure! I do recommend to everyone! :)

Amazing day today seeing the seals, would definitely recommend this trip to others! We enjoyed every minute and our skipper was great!

Absolutely excellent trip thus afternoon fab skipper, fab trip and fab weather. Would highly recommend this an activity to do with all ages. Great value for money ��

Absolutely amazing experience I’d recommend to anyone. Had a great time. Many thanks to John the Skipper.

it was a wonderful trip. So many seals. we were all so well looked after on the trip. Hope to do it again.

had a lovely trip to look at the seals today, John was amazing, he went above and beyond to get us back to Felixstowe today, a very big thank you to you all. Great trip for young or old, Would highly recommend.

We saw lots of seals both on the banks and in the water and all really enjoyed the trip. Can thoroughly recommend it.

We enjoyed a fabulous trip this morning and must have seen about 150 seals .... amazing to realise we have such wonderful wildlife right on our doorstep, after a choppy start it was a really lovely trip .... many thanks Chris we look forward to joining you for another trip very soon... ��

All good wishes & every success to you...

Lesley, Rob, Rakaiah & Lexi Barlow

This was a beautiful day out. From the nice relaxing boat trip to watching the seals in a lovely location. Will definately be going again x

This is an experience not to be missed! My 13 year old Grandaughter loved this for her Birthday treat. Lots of seals to see (binoculars included) and the boat trip is really enjoyable. Will be taking my 6 year old Grandaughter when shes not so nervous of boats! We loved it!

Thank you chris and to the skipper for taking myself and our home educator friends out to see the seals wild and free, we all had such and amazing time and would recommend it to anyone and everyone to go on the trip :)

My husband and I was looking for something to do whilst we have this lovely weather and chose the seal watching and we are so glad we did....the trip was fantastic, the skipper was friendly and funny, the boat was clean and the crew were very helpful, we were also loaned a good pair of binoculars so we could see close up but to be honest you get so close to the seals you dont really need them...we saw approximately 30 seals and they were happy for us to be close ...the trip was well organised and lasted 2 hours, the docks were well maintained and crew staff were there to answer any questions, we booked on line which was very easys but to can pay by cash or card on board but I would recomend booking in advance to ensure a space as the trips get booked quickly and a couple of people couldnt get in the trip as they had not booked.....well recommended, will definitely be returning

I can highly recommend this, if you decide to go on this trip you are in for a treat. The skipper ensured we were all comfortable and was highly informative and made the trip a pleasure. He explained everything in detail.The trip to the mud flats were the seals are was really enjoyable and when we arrived , oh my what a delight seals everywhere.!!! He navigated the boat as near as he could so we all had a chance to take photographs and see these beautiful creatures...... Cant praise this trip enough

Had a great time with my dad on Sunday on the Seal Spotter trip. ���



Very friendly and informative skipper.



Would thoroughly recommend it to anyone. So nice to be able to see the seals in their natural habitat.

Great trip , friendly captain , saw lots of seals and is best on a sunny day

Fantastic trip. We went last Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed it. Will be doing it again in the Summer (when it is much warmer for me). Thank you

Fantastic trip to see the seals, thoroughly enjoyed it & would recommend it to everybody. Friendly guys with lots of local knowledge and so many seals to see.

Fabulous trip out to see our local seal colony. Christian did a great job & the seals were as appealing & entertaining as ever. Definitely as good as Blakeney!

Both my wife and I had never done this boat trip before, so we booked on there website and thoroughly enjoyed the trip to see the seals at Hamford Water, so well organised and nice small boat with a group of only 10 people. We were given some history of Harwich and the harbour, also some information about the seals themselves.

When near to the seals we were all given binoculars as the boat cannot get too close the the seals etc

We would highly recommend this trip to anyone inc young children, we had a glorious hot sunny day which made a big difference to trip.

Amazing lovely trip to watch the seals! This is a real joy and pleasure! I do recommend to everyone! :)

Amazing day today seeing the seals, would definitely recommend this trip to others! We enjoyed every minute and our skipper was great!

Absolutely excellent trip thus afternoon fab skipper, fab trip and fab weather. Would highly recommend this an activity to do with all ages. Great value for money ��

Absolutely amazing experience I’d recommend to anyone. Had a great time. Many thanks to John the Skipper.