Inner Farne Boat Tour

Price from: £32.00 per person

Availability: Daily 11:45 / 13:45 
1st April to 30st September

What to expect?

Get closer to the nature of the Farne islands by spending an hour on one of the islands. This trip gives you the chance to see the stunning scenery both from the boat and up close with Serenity Boat Tours.

This tour sails around all of the Farne Islands then lands on the fantastic diverse wildlife habitat of Inner Farne where St Cuthbert spent the latter part of his life and died there in 687AD. Inner Farne is the largest of all of the Farne Islands and also the most accessible. It is ideal for bird watchers and wildlife photographers, you can get incredibly close to thousands upon thousands of breeding birds!

During the breeding season expect to see thousands of Atlantic puffins, common guillemots, razorbills, eider ducks, Arctic, common and sandwich terns plus kittiwakes and other species of gulls.

Additional information:

• Remember to bring a hat during the spring and summer breeding season!
• Please arrive 30 mins before your departure to collect your boarding pass. Failure to do so may result in your ticket being resold.
• This tour takes approximately 2.5 – 3 hours with a 1 hour landing on Inner Farne.
• The National Trust charge additional landing fees to non-members.
• Times and frequencies may change at short notice.
• Please note, dogs are not allowed on this trip. Sorry!
• The final decision to land on any of the Farne Islands is at the boat masters discretion.
• Although all of our vessels have wheelchair access, the Inner Farne is not wheelchair accessible.

About the Farne Islands

The Farne Islands are a small group of islands a few miles off the coast at the Northumberland village of Seahouses.

They consist of 28 islands with varying visibility depending on the tide. Some of the islands have wonderful names, Megstone, Elbow, Wideopens, Goldstone, The Bush, Glororum Shad, Gun Rock, Staple Island, Brownsman, Callers, Crumstone, Fange, North and South Wamses, Roddam and Green, Big and Little Harcar, Nameless Rock, Blue Caps, Longstone and the furthest out at over 4 miles from shore, Knivestone.

The Farne Islands are formed by the most seaward outcrops of the volcanic intrusion called the Great Whin Sill. This can be traced from Upper Teessdale in Durham where it forms the High Force waterfall all the way up to North Northumberland to the Farne Islands and the rocks upon which sit the castles of Lindisfarne, Bamburgh and Dunstanburgh. The dolerite rock gives the Farne Islands their distinctive blackened appearance.