Sunday the 2nd was the day of the Christmas fun day at the Ocean Lab with a simultaneous porpoise watch at Strumble and the unveiling of the new posters at the lookout detailing the Peoples Porpoise Project. Myself, Holly and Rob covered the lookout with Sophie swapping with Holly half way through the 4 hour session. We were on neap tides so not a very strong tide race and the porpoise numbers reflected that with only a few scattered sightings. The Rissos on the other hand were there in good numbers and although not as active as in previous sessions were great to see all the same. We had several local people join us one of which was lucky enough to see the Rissos but the others not so lucky and had instead a detailed talk by myself on the unique and special qualities of Strumble Head and why it is so important to the Porpoise that come there daily. I would estimate the number of Rissos at between 12-16 seen over an hour or so and with a few juveniles and a small calf things in the Rissos world are looking promising for this little group at least.
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| Cliff & Holly with the new posters at the lookout |
