Whales in Wales: A Double First for Breakwater

A poor start to the day as the showers came over soon changed to broken cloud and sunshine as the time approached for the first coffee morning to be held at the end of the northern breakwater and a really worthy cause chosen by Cliff was the Macmillan Cancer foundation. It was lovely to see so many people show support to Cliff and of course Macmillan through this unique event. Thanks have to go to Tony, Stevo and Joel for helping set things up and to Delyth plus others for their lovely cakes and to those who attended and who made the event a success. At the end of the event a short time was spent watching a few porpoise to everyone's delight but sadly no bottles showed up.

A special thanks to Carl Milne (Stena Line) for supporting the event by providing a bus and driver (Paul) to ferry people from the Ocean Lab and back afterwards.

The other first was quite special too. If I'm correct, it is the first time we've recorded a porpoise at the breakwater that we know from our porpoise watches at Strumble Head. The notches out of the fin are very familiar and I think this was one of the porpoises featured by Chantelle at the recent symposium. A female I think as it was in the company of a calf although the calf is well grown. I'll leave Cliff and the others to contemplate the importance of this sighting but it is a significant first I think.