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Where are the best places to snorkel in Argyll? We’ve been running snorkel & swimming trips around the coastline of Oban and the islands of Argyll for 10 years. Here are our top picks of places …

As basking shark experts we love answering your questions about our favourite giant fish, and today we are diving in to one of the top searched questions about basking sharks – can they close their …

Here at Basking Shark Scotland we love answering your questions on all things basking shark, and one of the top searched questions about our favourite filter feeders is – ‘can a basking shark eat a human?’. …

Is Oban the most instagrammable place in Scotland? Where is the most Instagrammable place in Scotland? Research this week reveals that Oban is the No. 1 Instagrammable place in Scotland, along with sitting at No.6 …

If you are thinking of taking the plunge into the wild Atlantic, you may be wondering how cold is the water? Though the Hebrides can look tropical on a summer’s day, we are still in …

Freshwater basking shark! We came across this image (left) on social media recently and couldn’t help but be fascinated by it! Some we had never seen before, was it some kind of weird basking shark …

Oban Top 5 What can I do during my stay in Oban is one of the questions we are asked the most. We run tours based from Oban, and being the gateway to the Isles, …

The 2021 summer for us in the Hebrides was one of contrast. Normally, it’s the standing joke that summer bypasses us and we have the full brunt of the Atlantic ocean & weather. However, this …

We’ve long looked out at Barra & the Southern Isles from our summer base of Coll. Just another hop over from the Inner Hebrides that has so much allure of new coastlines to explore. The …

The weather in the Hebrides was very odd this summer with continuous settled weather and calm seas offshore. This allowed outstanding spotting conditions and we started to see strange wakes across the calm ocean. This …

If you haven’t already seen some of the amazing footage of our amazing day with the two humpback whales off Coll last summer then check out the video below! Since then over winter 20/21, our …

It has been a really great basking shark season for us with perhaps our strongest-ever summer in terms of numbers and consistency. The weather is the weather in the Hebrides and as usual, it did …