Dolphins in the Solent !!

[AlJones]

Did anyone else see the Dolphins in and around Lee-on-the-Solent/Stokes Bay today around 1400hrs?

Al.

 

[A_7]

For what porpoise?

 

[Birdseye]

No - lots of lemmings but no dolphins.

 

[Rivers & creeks]

We sailed back across the channel from Belgium about 4 weeks ago and they spent a couple of hours buzzing the boat. There were 4 or 5 in the group (is it a school or a pod?). Amazing sight as the raced each other either side of the hulls and crossed underneath. With a lower freeboard I could have touched their backs as they were alongside. They must have heard us from some way off, we saw their fins racing towards us at an incredible speed from about 1/4 mile away. A never-to-be-forgotten moment.

 

[Rustyknight]

Sounds like you had a whale of a time..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[AlJones]

Seen 'em all over the world, but Blighty!!!

Chuffed to bits, and so were the clients, told them we ordered em! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Al.

 

[ashanta]

I had a group of about 10-15 round my boat off Pole sand (Exe) on Good Friday. Dolphins are quite a poular sight along the SW coast but it sounds like, by this post, they are not often seen around the Solent ?

 

[phatcat1]

We see lots off the Thames estuary, especially off Long Sand and Kentish Knock.

When we went up to St Kats at Easter, we had 4 pods with us on and off up the Thames as far as Gravesend Reach.

Not sure if they were Dolphins, or Harbour Porpoises but great fun to watch!

 

[AlJones]

My point exactly.

Maybe we were privileged to see them.

Al.

 

[duncan]

seems the mackerel schoals are around now so I suspect they are shadowing them. Certainly some (mackerel) were caught inside Poole Harbour on Sunday!