Sea View House is 2 miles from the boat trips to St. Kilda and the adventure of a lifetime. Trips are weather dependant due to the very remote location, often with a 2 day travel window required. Sea View House offers the perfect base from which to explore St. Kilda with St. Kilda Sea Tours or time to wait for the best sailing weather to maximise your chances of visiting this amazing place.
St Kilda is a dramatic isolated archipelago 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides, and is the British Isles’ outermost outpost and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its dramatic landscape features towering sea cliffs, vast seabird colonies, wind-swept machair and the remains of a once-inhabited community abandoned in 1930. The Islands are home to millions of breeding birds each spring and summer—fulmars, razorbills, guillemots—and Britain’s largest northern gannet colony at Stac an Ardmhàin. Remote, wild, and utterly unlike anywhere else in Britain, St Kilda is a compelling destination for anyone drawn to raw nature, dramatic history and rare wildlife.
Outstanding wildlife
One of the most important seabird colonies in the UK. Massive numbers of gannets, puffins, fulmars, guillemots and razorbills breed on the towering sea cliffs and stacks, offering spectacular, up-close seabird viewing.
Unique subspecies and rare species can be encountered: St Kilda wren and St Kilda field mouse are of particular interest to naturalists.
Marine life includes grey seals, occasional whales and dolphins; the surrounding seas are rich and unspoilt.
Dramatic landscapes
Sheer sea cliffs, sea stacks, machair and vast Atlantic seascapes create endlessly changing light and photographic opportunities.
The archipelago’s sense of exposure and scale is distinctive — remote stacks rise straight from turbulent seas, and horizons feel endless.
Powerful human history
The story of the islanders — their adaptation to marginal conditions, unique crofting culture, and eventual evacuation in 1930 very moving.
Ruined blackhouses, the village remnants at Hirta, and the restored church and school offer a poignant glimpse into life in St. Kilda
Trips with St Kilda Sea Tours usually depart from Leverburgh harbour in the early morning around 07:30/08:00 and return around 19:00/19:30 in the evening providing a full day of amazing adventure on the high seas, weather dependant. Book early as the boats get booked up quickly.
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