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    Getting to Scilly cheaply

    The following is an extract from the ISBG web site: WHEN TO SEE MORE SOUGHT AFTER SEABIRDS: Great Shearwater: Numbers vary significantly from year to year. In a good year they are common in September and October (sometimes 100s). Otherwise, they are occasional to frequent in August, and rare in...
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    Getting to Scilly cheaply

    I didn't say I blamed you for trying to get to the Scillies as cheaply as possible, Dan. Like many others I think the prices charged to get there are far too high and could almost be said to discourage low spending tourists like yourself for going there so that there is more room for the big...
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    Getting to Scilly cheaply

    Blimey Dan, a couple of years ago the Moderators deleted one of my posts because I said "strickly speaking you need a permit to enter Barrow Gurney Reservoir". They felt I was suggesting you trespass but here you are in 2007 asking advice on how to defraud The Isles of Scilly Steamship Company...
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    Getting to Scilly cheaply

    In that case Dan I would recommend you go in July rather than August. Roger
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    Getting to Scilly cheaply

    Dan, if you are concerned about the cost of getting to Scilly then my advice is to find somewhere else to go. Scilly is not cheap even when you get there and in August it will be full of tourists rather than birds anyway. Roger
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