Strumble Diary 10/01/2026

 My first outing for a while so to all who follow the blog I wish you a happy and healthy new year. 

With the recent storm passed the wind was NW 5-7 with a temp of 3deg, so I wrapped up well and headed out. As I arrived I could see two groups of Gannets, one off to the NW and the other to the NE so I was hopefull of cetacean action under them. I set up the gear and started my watch. Sadly there were no visible signs of porps or dolphins at that time. The tide race was just getting going on the flood tide but it was a while before I spotted my first fins. Two distant porps moving westward toward the tide race but not showing very well. I'd seen four as time went by but sightings too poor for images.

Two hours before high tide I sighted some more porpoise and managed a couple of images so things were looking up as they say. A pod of around twenty commons moved in from the West and started feeding in front of me. As this was going on I was seeing porpoise further up the tide race so things were getting busy. The commons soon moved on East and the sightings of porpoise were more sporadic as we got closer to high tide. The commons that had moved East later came back West and headed off toward St Davids, bringing my session to a close. All in all a decent session and if nothing else I enjoyed the fact I was back out there in my happy place with fresh air filling my lungs and nature feeding my soul.