First day out this month and more favourable now the winds have dropped and swung around from northerly to southerly. I started off at the lookout and after an hour and a half had seen one porpoise but distant. I then noticed some down off the point so decided to re-locate despite there being a very big tide which I thought may keep them further back in the tide race. Of course when I got there they had moved off but time was not an issue so I stayed around. I used a different position to normal as there was a resting grey seal down on the rocks and my normal position was a bit too close. With a 600mm lens you don't need to get too close anyway. I settled in to watch for porpoises and had three come along from the east with the tide, being very stealthy and just passing through so no pics of them sadly. I then spotted a group of what I thought were commopn dolphin out to the NE, again rushing through with the tide. As I got the lens on them it was clear that they were a group of some 6-8 Porpoise and I rattled off a few shots before they too were gone. Things went quiet then so I turned my attention to the seal.
Now when you're a grey seal and the tide is dropping all you want to do is haul yourself out and have a nice quiet siesta dreaming of all those lovely females and some nice tasty fish. Today for this chap though it wasn't going to plan.
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