Top North East England Water Tours

Many English people grew up with the tale of Grace Darling, the young woman who helped her lighthouse keeper father save nine people from a shipwreck in 1838. On this unique tour, you'll join the current lighthouse attendant on a trip to Longstone Island. If conditions permit, there'll be the chance to see inside the lighthouse (donations required): along the way, expect to see gray seals and nesting seabirds.

A few miles (kilometers) offshore from Seahouses, the Farne Islands are home to shags, gulls, cormorants, and gray seals all year round, with puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and terns during the May-July season. See them from the water on this fully narrated cruise from Seahouses, which also includes a sail past Longstone Lighthouse, where the lighthouse keeper's daughter Grace Darling rescued nine sailors and became a local heroine.