Strumble Diary 16/07/2019

The morning started with a quick visit to Harbour village to check the bay for dolphins. None there sadly but I did catch The Swansea University survey boat the "Mary Anning" leaving port with our very own Holly Dunn on board. The university and Sea Trust have been collaborating on porpoise surveying now for some time and with the boat in Fishguard for a couple of days it was too good an opportunity for Holly to miss sharing our experiences of boat borne cetacean surveying. In the first image Holly can be seen standing between the two others visible on board. On to Strumble then and all was quiet as I arrived. Very calm sea and a lovely warm day. To keep me occupied while I waited for porpoise I was taken by the number of Compass jelly fish that were about. Some specimens had very long tentacles stretching five to six feet so were worth recording. Volunteer Rob Havard and a friend joined me later on and we set to spotting anything that surfaced in the race. Such perfect days though do not always favour shooting such small creatures at distance and today the heat haze was making life difficult for the cameras. So today's images are not the best and serve more as a record than anything else. It was still great to be out there though on such a fine day and with the weather due to break this weekend we have to make the most of it.

One fish has a lucky escape