First up are some shots of a small pod of passing commons from yesterday morning. A quiet session on a small tide produced these plus five porpoise at distance.
Second comes today's survey 03/08 on a lovely calm day and at totaly the wrong time of the tide in my mind I started the session in the company of Holly and the Tuesday crew of Telva, Ruby and Lara. Not expecting to see much I settled in and scanned the area in front of us. About twenty minutes in along from the west came a group of several porpoise traveling slowly and feeding as they went.
What do I know eh? So unpredictable this wildlife lark.
We followed their progress as they passed the lookout heading NE and soon they turned and headed back west, this time as one's and two's.
Holly then spotted what she thought were common dolphin splashing about a half mile or so out to the NW but by the time I got the camera lens around it was apparent that it was a breaching Thresher Shark. Sadly it didn't breach again so that was a chance missed which is annoying to say the least, but a visual record all the same. The tide race didn't really get going on this very small tide and the action soon died away as we neared the three hour mark of the survey.
A nice encounter though was a female grey who decided to haul out on the small rock which is dried out at low tide just below the lookout. I've spent thousands of hours over many years doing this survey lark and this is the first time I've ever seen a seal hauling out there. Another first for Strumble.
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