Mr Blue Skye: Spotting whales on a luxury boat trip around the Scottish isles

I feel like I had a spiritual experience on board the Seaflower – a pleasant day out quickly turned into one of the best days of my life.

The Seaflower is a boat that takes daily luxury trips from Skye, with options to do a sunset Prosecco tour, a coastline cruise, or even a full day adventure to two islands with a seafood lunch.

Our trip is to Rona – a small island with only two people inhabiting it – with plenty of crisp white wine along the way.

It started with our group rocking up to Portree harbour at 11:30am to meet the boat. Captain Ewan Grant is unfortunately unable to join us for our trip, so we have couple Matilda (Tilly) Painter-Jones and Kyle Meland as our crew.