Private hire available please email customerservice@sealwatching.co.uk to arrange private hire trips.

Open all year round, usually weekends and school holidays.

Capacity April to October  1- 45 passengers.

Capacity November to March 1- 12 passengers.

There are currently around 250 seals in the Walton backwaters, a healthy breeding population which has risen from only 5 in 1986.

We take you through the backwaters to Oakley creek, known as Hamford Water Nature Reserve, where the seals enjoy resting on the mudbanks.

Dogs are only allowed on Private hire trips. Not on public trips.

In addition to seals, a variety of birds can be spotted including the Wigeon, Pintail, Ringed Plover, Curlew, Dunlincan, Sandpipers, Gannets and Arctic Skuas.

To avoid boarding the wrong boat such as the ferry which is also yellow, please look for the boat with the blue cover.

Accessibility: To get to the pontoon from the street level, there are 40 steps, with good grip plus another 3 steps to get into the boat. There are handrails the whole way and onto the boat.
Please email customerservice@sealwatching.co.uk if you have more questions about this.