The return - Part 2

A Common Seal pup at Dingle Seal & Wildlife Sanctuary, Ireland

The next stop this summer was Dingle, Republic of Ireland. I was again volunteering with the Atlantic Whale Foundation; but this time not in Tenerife. This project has only just started up, and was understandably a lot smaller. At the peak, there was 8 volunteers, which is quite a contrast to the 70 in Tenerife. Most of our time was spent working at the Seal Sanctuary on the outskirts of Dingle. This is a totally volunteer run sanctuary, that is open year round; caring for abandoned and injured Common seals during the summer, and then Grey seals during the autumn / winter. Alongside this, some of us also did visual observations from cliff tops, and surveys for daubenton's bats.