Best Place To See Dolphins In The Uk! (Vanlife Wales)

Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Oli. Over the past four years we have been on some epic adventures around the world. Now, after converting an old van into our new home on wheels, we are ready to hit the road and explore the wonders of Europe. Click the subscribe button to follow our journey and let the adventure begin. Cheers! Good morning! Welcome to our odyssey. So, where have we taken our humble little camper van Red Tornado on its first excursion? To Wales! So, this morning we have parked up in the town of Newquay and we are going on a boat trip. We are here to see some dolphins. Who knew that there were dolphins in Wales? I didn't know. I didn't know. But apparently here on the west coast there are plenty of them. So much that they have a special trip just to see them. Dolphin spotting boat trips over a decade in association with Sea-Watch Foundation. And we really, really love dolphins so I can't wait to go over there and see them. So, we booked it online. It was 20 pounds per person and it's a one and a half hour boat trip leaving at 12 30 today. So, fingers crossed we can try and spot some dolphins today. Ready to spot some dolphins? Ready. I am ready. Let's go. So, what dolphins are they? So, I believe that the dolphins in this bay are bottlenose dolphins. I mean it's mostly a guess but they are the most common dolphin and I just imagine they would be bottlenose dolphins. Car keys. Yes. Milenko security system. Ain't nobody getting in here. Look at that. Heading down to the beach. Fighting through the jungle. Now this forest here is actually very nice. Look at this. That is pretty wild. Yeah, you can really, really feel the air is very nice and wet and refreshing. I love to be in the forest. Yes. Out of the forest, on the beach. You see how beautiful, sunny and nice it is today. This is the perfect day to go dolphin spotting. Yeah. Let's see if we can spot already some. That's just amazing here. It's just amazing. So, this is Nuki over there. That's where we're headed. We didn't park in Nuki because it's probably very expensive to park there. So, we just parked around on the other side of the bay and yeah, we're just gonna walk around to there and check it out. It's like completely high tide and there's literally like this much beach to walk on. Otherwise, we have to swim across. You gotta swim it. It's close. Okay, we have to run now because the tide is coming in. It's coming in fast. Okay, we have to take some steps now because the way here is cut off. Now, this is our new bag. The wrong way. So, that path actually went up to a private property but they were nice and they led us through to the main road. So, now we're gonna walk on the road round towards the town. We're coming into Nuki. It is incredibly busy. It's a bank holiday weekend so I don't blame anyone. Oh, it is busy. I just wonder if all these boats and things around are gonna scare them away. So, we'll have to see. Maybe the dolphins like people. Maybe they're quite happy. That looks like a busy beach. So amazing to see people being together again. Oh, really nice. Yeah, I haven't seen pictures like this in a year. Okay, so we have arrived down at the quay. Oh, look a shark. Yeah, I hope to see something in the water though. So, the boat will pick us up from over here. So, we're just gonna go and have a sandwich and sit and relax and wait for it. Let's go on a boat. This is our boat, the Dunbar Castle 2. She's a fine vessel. Back for you there and then you're gonna sit just where you step on then. Okay, fantastic. Thank you very much. Thank you. Very good. How are you? Awesome. Rock and roll. Here we go. Very nice, calm sea today. Would you say that's good conditions for dolphins? Yes. Yes. Best conditions. We think we spot her. We think we spot her. Dolphins, dolphins, dolphins, dolphins, dolphins, dolphins, dolphins, dolphins. Awesome. Absolutely magical. Just here in the bay, people with all the boats, kayakers around, they don't care. It's like, hey guys, bye guys, hey guys. Oh, nice. You don't need to go to Hawaii for this. You can go to Wales. Oh, nice. This is basically the mother bringing the calf over to introduce the boats to the dolphin and vice versa. And she's basically trying to teach the calf that, you know, not all boats are bad and respect them. Okay, so we're leaving the dolphins alone now for a bit further down the coast and see what else we can see. You get a variety of species here, including guinea moths, razor whales, cormorants, sharks, volmars, oyster catchers, kittiwakes, black-backed dolls, herring dolls. Cool. Do keep your eyes out on the water, because there are quite an abundance of jellyfish in at the moment. We have had a huge swarm of the barrel jellyfish coming in. There are so many jellyfish in the water here. I do not want to go swimming here. I do. I do. The jellyfish. That is terrifying for me. They are so incredibly beautiful. That is amazing. So we just went around to see where the seals were, but they weren't home. No, no seals at home today. But jellyfish is everywhere. He just said they can grow one and a half meter across. Yeah, they're known as the dustbin lid. They look like a dustbin lid when they wash up on the beach. We have arrived to a dog welcome party. Fantastic. Thank you very much for coming, guys. Lovely. Lovely. Thank you. Be careful on your way out. Thank you so much, guys. Awesome. Cheers, guys. Thank you so much. I hope you enjoyed it. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, that's awesome. Wow. Well, thank you very much to the Dolphin Spotting Boat Trips New Quay for showing us that. That is absolutely wonderful. How amazing, hey? Yeah, that was an awesome day. It was really, really nice. I loved it a lot. Now we're heading just back to our little home. And actually, we start driving now, probably another two or three hours direction Snowdon National Park. We're on our way to the mountains. So we don't know exactly where we're going to stay, but we're going to drive up to the mountain area. We're going to check it out and we'll find something. We will find something. We'll keep you updated. OK, so there's one more thing that we thought we had to do before we left the coast of Wales and headed to the mountains. And that is take a dip. Oh, my God. Icy. Oh, yeah. Oh, here comes a fella. I don't like it. OK. OK, look at this. Yeah, this water is probably like zero degrees. Yeah. But I will dive in there now. I think it's zero. OK, go. What? It's minus ten. OK, look at this. I can't breathe. We're going to run and then we're going to hit the wave and we're going to go in. OK. OK. OK, go. It's lovely. Wow. There is a lot of mountains in Wales. Awesome mountains. I really didn't expect there would be so many mountains here, but we're still 60 kilometers away from where we're going to camp tonight and already it's like crazy. We have entered Snowdonia National Park and it is truly a wonder. Oh, my God. But that's because roads here are not prioritized. What's prioritized here is nature. OK, that's why that's why we have to be very careful driving these roads. Sometimes two lanes become one and you just have to deal with it. Oh, wow. And it's just covered in forest, this beautiful ancient forest. Everything's got moss on it and everything's nice and green. Look at these trees. Wow. Wow. It's like driving through the woods. But you can see like now we've only got one lane again. Yep. Let's go back. Oh, he's letting me through. Epic. I love national parks. So nice. Look at this amazing place where we are. We've got a lake right next to us. So now it's time to make camp. I'm just watching. And our home is set up. We have come to the end of our epic day of dolphin watching. Very successful. Amazingly successful. I'm really pleased about that. I really, really loved it. It was so nice to see these dolphins. I really, it's just so exciting. It was an absolutely epic day. We could see some amazing dolphins and then we could go on an amazing drive. And now we're parking up in an amazing place. So that's it from us today. We hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have. We're going to go and cook up some dinner now and go to bed. Let's see what kind of adventure we get up to tomorrow. We will see you next time. If you enjoyed watching this video, you would help us a lot by subscribing to the channel by clicking here. Thanks so much for watching guys. We will see you next time.