I arrived at Strumble as the Wednesday survey team were nearing the end of their session.Very little to report but they had seen a pod of commons moving through earlier in the survey. The seas were rough after the gales of the night before with the wind still blowing around 20-25Mph and with the tide running against it produced some large swells and disturbed seas.
First sighting were two porpoise well out in the distance as the first push of the dropping tide got underway. Nothing then for well over an hour and then another distant single porpoise. All the action though was in the last ten minutes of my session as offto the NW and beyond the lighthouse I spotted a group of around five Rissos moving parallel to the swells which made them extremely difficult to follow as they would disappear behind those large swells. As they went out of dight I started scanning again and spotted a porpoise close in rounding Mackerel point. I tracked it as it moved quickly with the tide and managed a few shots before it too moved into the swells beyond the lighthouse. A reatively quiet session then but still enjoyable out in the fresh sea air after being indoors with Covid etc for the past two weeks.
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