Strumble Diary 29-30/11/2018

A dual entry today as I didn't get around to posting yesterdays entry due to car issues that needed sorting late yseterday. So to yesterday first. A long time and our most frequent visitor "Denty" was first in the lens with a long gap before any other sightings. The light was poor and I hadn't expected to get out at all due to the rain. Several sporadic porp sightings were made before the afternoon light faded away and I decided to call it a day.

To today then and the weather was much better with a stiffish WNW wind driving a 10-12ft swell locally off the lookout with lighter seas beyond. The tide was flooding but strangely the tide race didn't really get going as we had expected. Joined at first by Joel and Stevo and afterwards by Lloyd and Ian the sightings started slowly but later in the session they pepped up a bit with some twenty to thirty sightings overall.

 This coming Sunday the 2nd Dec, Sea Trust is having it's Christmas fun day with many activities and free aquarium tours at the Ocean Lab between 10.00am and 3pm. At the same time I and others will be at Strumble offering advice on sea watching and hopefully showing off our wonderful marine wildlife to anyone interested in joining us. The duration of the Strumble session will be dependant on the weather conditions.  Raffle tickets will be available at both locations (up to 1.30ish at Strumble) with lots of lovely prizes to be had including a boat trip on the Cartlet Lady on one of our Celtic Deep trips and a canvas print donated by myself of one of our Fishguard Bay Bottle Nose Dolphins which is on display at the Ocean Lab. If you are coming to Strumble please wrap up warmly.