 You'll see Lars and Puffins in a minute. You'll see Lars and Puffins in a minute. Oh, we want to see Puffins! 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 Wealds, 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! Good morning! Welcome to our Odyssey! Today it's a very, very exciting day. We are still in Wales and we will go and see Puffins! So we've been wanting to see these birds for a long time since we were up in Scotland. There's only a few places off the coast of Wales that you can see these spectacular birds. But this is one of them. So we are just about to head down to the beach to meet a guy called Brett who's going to take us out. And we are a little bit in a hurry so better get started! So wish us luck! Okay, we need to hurry a little bit because our boat is just going in a minute. And we still have to find the way to the beach. Don't want to miss our boat! No! Woo! Looking procedure. Okay, so we are supposed to be leaving on the boat in five minutes. We're still walking down to the beach. We're meeting a guy called Brett when we get down to the beach. And he's going to take us over to the Bardsy Island. And hopefully there we can see some Puffins. Yes! I'm really excited! I'm dreaming about this day for years! Yeah, you know, it's like we were in Scotland on our Adrona Grotes to Lanzan trip. And we knew that there were Puffins on the west coast of Scotland. But of course our trip didn't take us to the west coast. So we kind of missed out on that. And we were super bummed out about that. Yeah, then we were just having a bit of a search online. And we thought, oh my god! You can see Puffins in Wales as well. We were like, yes, we have to do that. So pretty much we tried to book for Scoma Island. Which is a very well known island off the coast of the Pembrokeshire coast. There is super popular to see Puffins. I've seen lots of videos about it. Lots of blogs about it. But alas, it was fully booked for the whole of this month. For the whole of next month. So we had a bit of a search like, okay, come on. Where else can you see Puffins in Wales? And then Bardsy Island came up. And this island is north of Pembrokeshire. Bardsy Island is at the end of this peninsula that we're on near Snowdonia National Park. Yeah, and we looked up online and called a few numbers and we spoke to Brett. And Brett said on this island there are hundreds of Puffins nesting at the moment. Fingers crossed we'll be able to see them. But yeah, I'm super excited. We found the path down to the beach. Oh my god. Not the best of paths. Hopefully our boat is at the bottom of this. My legs are so dead from climbing Snowdon yesterday. If you haven't seen that episode, please go and check it out. It was an awesome day yesterday. There's a rope to get down to the beach. Oh my god. Okay, so we're down on the beach and we can't really see a boat. But I can see a boat round here. So we're just going to walk a little bit round the coast. Oh my god. I can see the boat over there. But because we came down on the beach over there. Now we're having to cross this whole rocky coast to try and get to it. You can see the boat though. Just hope they're going to wait for us. You're only the second lot that I've done. Oh my god. Thank you. Workout for today done. Workout for today. You might have to swim. Thank you very much. Watch my bag as well. Here we go. Okay, so we're on the boat finally. Here we go off into the water. I just need to cool down a minute. I'm so sweaty after that. That was pretty hectic. Captain Brett on the way. Can you start the engine? Oh that sounds good. So Brett says that the puffins are there. The puffins. We're coming. We're now called Seagull Islands. Yeah, there's four nesting sites on there. It's really a bird paradise. We've got shags. There's a shag nest there. Gilly mutter over there. Gilly mutter over there on that piece there. And razor bills? The razor bills are the other side. A lot of them. You've got herringles on the lower parts. The gray black backs are a little bit higher up. Is it like a nature reserve? Or anything like that? This is owned by an owner in the state. And I'm taking him out here next week. Sometimes. But they do come here and they ring. They ring the birds here. They've come through. There are so many different species living on this island. You can see here. You'll see large puffins in the video. Incredible. The cutest little thing. Look, look, look there. Hello little puffin. They're special birds. They're just lovely birds. Gilly mutter, this one. The razor bills and the gilly mutter. They went down because we had a big gale. And everything that was out. There was one storm. And everything. We just had two big storms a couple of weeks ago. And they were big storms. But it looks like this time everything's the same. Gilly mutter, razor bills, puffins. They all like one egg. One egg. The black gilly mutter has two. The shadow lay up to five. Cormans five. All the gulls are three. Or two. They're not like game birds. It's like 12, 15 eggs. But are you happy with the population here? It's better the last two years than it's been. Okay. The puffin population is good. Steady and... From what I've seen early on this year. The puffin population is as good now as it's ever been. It's really strong. They're not carrying any food. They're mid-made nesters. Because we see always this picture of them having so much fish in their mouth. Is this how they're... Is this how they're doing it? Yeah, they come in with three, four or five strands. No way. And then they have to avoid the gulls. And they take them three or four times. Wow. Look at this. This is like a sea. A sea of puffins. You can see hundreds of puffins here. Hundreds of puffins just swimming around here. Have a look. Puffin paradise. Set up our drone. And send it off from the boat here. From Brett's boat. This is our first time flying the drone on a boat. So... Let's see how it goes. We've got a full battery so we should be fine. I don't know if this is a good idea actually. Worst case scenario I'll land it on the island and someone will get it. Here we go. We're on. See you later little drone. But they're on the grassy bits. There's a burrow up there in the soil. So you can sort of see in between all the grass. These little burrow holes. And that's all the little cuties there. Absolutely beautiful. So here on Seagull Island really is the place to see the puffins. I mean... They're here. They love it. We love it. You can forget scoma. This is where it's at. They're just here in their natural habitat and everything. It's really wonderful to see. Okay, so in this cove it looks like there's a seal in there. Ooh! I just see him pop his head up. Look, look, look! I saw him pop his head up. But now he's gone. You just put the head pops up. Let's see if he's coming up again. He's not up to it today. Bye Mr. Seal. Thanks for saying hello. You watched us there in the right moment. We got to see at least one Atlantic grey seal as well as the puffins. So I'd consider there a success. Okay, we're heading back in now. We didn't have to use any of the emergency equipment. It's all still there. No! Not this time. But it's got a good record. So don't be worried. That was so nice. Thank you so much. Awesome. Back on dry land. Yeah, that was a really, really cool trip. Back on the boat. Let's go back to the island. I want to go back and see the puffins. I could spend all day with the puffins. Oh my God. I could spend all year with the puffins. But they are not there all year round. They're flying off in... So at the end of July they all head out from the nesting area and head out to the Atlantic where no one knows. Apparently no one knows. So they can only really be seen here or anywhere along this coast between sort of mid-March and mid-July. After that, they're all gone. So don't try and see them. So in the end, it wasn't Scoma. It wasn't even Bardsy Island in the end. It was Seagull Island. Seagull Island! Seagull Island is the place to be. If you're a puffin or a person that likes to see puffins. So thank you so much to Brett. He was really amazing and actually went over his two-hour time slot just to keep going round the island just so we could keep having amazing views of them. Yeah. Thank you, Brett. So that was really nice of him. And then a small stop at the end to see some seals. On the cake right there. Yeah. And his knowledge about this area, about the different birds about everything was just great. So thank you, Brett. You're awesome. And that was a wonderful trip. The amazing free spot here just in the National Park is gorgeous here. So much nature and so many mountains around us is always lovely. So we had an absolutely awesome day. We really loved the puffins so much. It was spectacular, really. Thanks so much to Brett again. Thank you. He was really amazing. It was a really great trip. I loved it. So that's it for today's episode and that's it for our time in Wales. Yeah, we're going back tomorrow back to England and planning our next adventure. Stay tuned for absolutely loads more episodes to come. We have big plans for this summer. Yes. But thanks so much for watching. We've enjoyed it as much as we have. We're going to cook up some dinner now. So enjoy and good night. 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.