Series overview
A brand new three-part series featuring Ireland’s Atlantic islands and their wildlife wonders. From breaching Basking Sharks off our northernmost island Inishtrahull, to White Tailed Eagles fighting gales off the Cork coast to raise their young on Garnish Island; to Humpback Whales bubble netting off the Blasket islands; to the clash of Grey Seal bulls fighting for supremacy on Mayo’s Inishkea islands. Three years in the making and shot in cinema-quality 4K, the series is hosted by Corkman Eoin Warner sailing a stunning 140-year-old Galway Hooker out into the Atlantic to showcase the extraordinary wild magic of Ireland’s western islands.
In Episode One Eoin starts his island voyage on Rathlin where he witnesses one of the most extraordinary leaps of faith undertaken by any animal on the planet – flightless chicks jumping 300 feet from their cliff ledges down to the ocean.
Eoin then heads west for Malin Head and Inishtrahull meeting Basking Sharks and Dolphins en route before witnessing a remarkable breeding display of endangered Corncrakes on Tory island – filmed for the first time in Ireland.
Then it’s south to Achill Island and the story of the Irish Stoat – one of the few predators found on Ireland’s western isles. This first stage of his island odyssey ends at Achill’s beautiful Keem Bay – recently discovered by Hollywood and the site of the most successful Basking Shark fishery on the planet.
