If you are very lucky you can see Dolphins from the coast path
on the Isle of Purbeck but you do have to be very lucky. Every now and again a
pod will travel along the coast giving you a chance to watch them for a few
minutes and of course take a few photographs, but they rarely hang around long
enough. So, in order to try and take a few better photographs and to hopefully
watch a little more behaviour than just ‘passing by’, we decided to go to where
Dolphins are more regularly seen. This meant a round trip of some 1500 miles
and more than 32 hours behind the wheel to the Moray Firth in the Highlands of
Scotland. We had limited time and would need good weather to get the shots and
although we didn’t have wall to wall sunshine, the rain that fell that day fell
on other people and not us. Even though we could see heavy showers all around
us we escaped the downpours and managed to see the Dolphins from the beach at
Chanonry Point and from a high powered rib on the waters of Moray and Cromarty
Firths.
Luck was certainly with us and it was incredible to be able
to watch these animals not only as they travel but also as they hunt! Taking
photographs though is a completely different matter and although these
wonderful animals got quite close to shore, trying to predict where they will
surface whilst looking through the lens and then focusing correctly is very
tricky.
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| Inverness, from Chanonry Point |
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