Bottle Fest

A stroke of luck this morning as the road to Strumble was closed for re-surfacing. Only one thing for it and after reporting the closure to the team it was off to the breakwater in hopes of a sighting. The wind was blowing strongly across the bay so I didn't hold out much hope really.  Well, on the breakwater end the wind was an issue for the camera but the bottlenose dolphins were there. Three of them were milling around on the lookout for passing fish. I informed Holly and she, Sarah and the Thursday volunteer gang joined me a few minutes later. We lost them for a while but I spotted them just off Pebbly Beach so it was off to the other end of the breakwater to watch them some more and so glad we did as they put on a bit of a show with some fine breaches. After a while they headed back to the mouth of the harbour and we duly followed only to find another pair were now there too so we had five animals moving in all directions which was a bit of a headach for getting pics but to be honest it's just nice to see them there. We hoped they would bow ride the departing ferry but not this time so with loads of images and big smiles we made our way off the breakwater and back to the lab.

I'll leave it to Cliff to decide if some of these shots are of our old friend Appache with ?(Ringo) but it sure looked like it to me.