I think Cliff in the previous post pretty much sumed up the trip so I'll not bore you with much of the same. Cliff and Hannah being up on the flying bridge, had a great view of all before us while down in the back of the boat the view is more restricted so we tend to wait for shouts from above to warn of approaching action. Good Sea Trust friend and author of this blog site, Richard Crossen was covering things from the flying bridge with three of us "togs", Drew ( https://drewbuckleyphotography.com/ ), Rachel (https://pembrokeshiremoments.co.uk/) and myself from Sea Trust looking after the back end and off to each side.
Unusually it was a couple of hours and many miles out before we got the first shout and I was wondering at that stage if we were going to see anything at all which would have been a first, for me anyway. When the shout did come it was like the cannons (excuse the pun) being redied on an old medieval war ship with lenses ready to cover all directions. Having come on a pod of nearly 300 Commons the action was frantic but at the same time exciting. Many of the dolphin were very active with so many breaches it was hard to catch them all. Lots of mothers with calves all joining in the fun of playing around the boat.
Another quiet spell after that so we turned SE in the direction of Lundy Island catching odd small pods of dolphin and then as Cliff described some Minke whales. Estimates were hard as while we were busy shooting Rob was sighting more in the distance. I think we settled on 4-5 in the end. Sadly it was time to turn for home at this stage and we spotted several more small groups of Commons and large numbers of rafting sheerwaters. We got back into the Haven around 6ish with everyone smiling having enjoyed a superb day out with Andy and the crew. Cheers Andy, Rob and Steve for another excellent trip.
Hannah and Stevo enjoying a break between sightings.
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