Golspie Dolphins

We walked along Golspie's beach this morning, the sea almost dead calm, the sky grey, and the tide low. There seemed to be less sand than ever, and very little washed up on it to interest us except....

....a lone blue jellyfish and small quantities of seaweed, but the walk was brought alive by the sight of....

....a dolphin sounding.

We had been told that dolphins could be seen off Golspie but with so little evidence of prey species and, this year, not a sign of bait fish, we didn't expect to see them.

They were far out in the firth, at the absolute limit of my camera's capabilities, so it was difficult to tell how many there were. The most we saw at any one time was two but I would guess there were half a dozen. They didn't seem in any hurry to go anywhere as we saw them, on an off, over a period of about an hour.

So.... thank you to a small pod of dolphins for making our day.