The forecast was for showers but the skies were bright so I headed off for a morning survey. I arrived at 09.35 with the wind being a stiff WNW and a good swell running with wind against tide. My first sighting was thirty or so Commons feeding off to the NW at about 3/4 mile or so. Too far for pics in the large swells and they quickly pushed west with the tide but at least they were there. As the tide dropped away the porpoise started to come in and move up the tide race. Frustratingly they were in stealth mode and were not showing well at all. Through the session I had 15-20 sightings but as observed in the images below all were too poor to be useful.
The commons however seemed to revel in the conditions and I had two small groups move through only too willing to show themselves with multiple breaches as they navigated the swells. I was delighted to capture a mother and calf pair as they charged along at speed. I later observed several more porpoise downtide beyond the lighthouse but again too caught up in the large swells for meaningful pics.
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