Saturday, 6 September 2014

The Purbeck Dolphin

There have been several sightings of Dolphins along the Dorset coast today, with a pod seen of the coast of Bournemouth this morning. After getting word of a pod swimming west towards the cliffs at Durlston on the south eastern tip of the Isle of Purbeck there was really only one thing to do.
A swift walk to the cliffs later and we were greeted with the usual beautiful views but no Dolphins. This soon changed however when we saw a pod of between 15 and 20 animals swimming towards us and moving quite close to the cliffs. The only down side was watching two boats, a speed boat and a Poole registered fishing boat, run down the Dolphins, causing them to separate. There is never any excuse for this and it not good to see at all.



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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for these wonderful pictures of those Dolphins. You are right. Some people driving boats have no regard for the welfare of these wonderful animals.

6 September 2014 at 19:02
Darren Lock said...

Great work

7 September 2014 at 08:21
SimonK said...

Lovely shots, but let's have some images of the culprits as well!

7 September 2014 at 09:10

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