rubberduck
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Where is the most likely place on the east coast to find these Dolphin type creatures, as SWMBO would like to have a go at finding one. Seals are also popular.
Porpoises
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sailorman
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porpoise almost any where if your lucky, we have seen them 3 or 4 times in the past 2 months.
we have also seen dolphin twice in the past 6 weeks mainly down channel.
you need to be in clear water not the murky east coast stuff so at least 30 mls off shore.
in the past 30 yrs we have seen dolphin maybe 6 or 7 times so dont hold your breath
Athene V30
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Last dolphin I saw was off Fecamp in June '10, previously in Looe Channel a few years before. Digital camera never to hand!
Lots of seals on way in to Burnham on the sand banks at LW.
Lots of seals on way in to Burnham on the sand banks at LW.
johnalison
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People report Harbour Porpoises around the East Coast occasionally but I have never seen them. A trip down the Channel will usually bring some to light but we have been unlucky the last couple of times. I don't think there is anywhere that I would take someone out for a day-trip with any real expectation of seeing them. They are incredibly difficult to photograph - they just pop up any old where and by the time you've got the camera on them all you get is a photo of their tails.
NUTMEG
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Bradwell
last year as we were off of Bradwell the crew of the boat we were following claimed to have seen a porpoise. No one on our boat saw it. Not surprising in my case. It would need to jump into the cockpit and jump up and down for me to see it
Other members of our club claim to have seen them.
There is a small colony of seals on Mundon Spit.
last year as we were off of Bradwell the crew of the boat we were following claimed to have seen a porpoise. No one on our boat saw it. Not surprising in my case. It would need to jump into the cockpit and jump up and down for me to see it
Other members of our club claim to have seen them.
There is a small colony of seals on Mundon Spit.
Leighb
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We saw a couple of porpoises on our trip up the Thames a couple of years ago. This year SWMBO saw another although I missed it.
sailorman
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Beachy Hd a few weeks ago
Firefly
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Terrific photo - I've never been able to even point a camera vaguely in their direction! However, Harbour Porpoise can be be seen more and more regularly in the Thames, anywhere below about Erith. I reckon to spot them ( I guess the same ones) about every other time out. Still no chance of a photo though - top marks that man!
Cantata
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A quite frequent sight close to the shoreline at and near Herne Bay where I live. Did a cruise across to the Blackwater and Orwell recently and saw several along the way but can't particularly recall where - as others say, they seem to be becoming a common sight again, used to see them on every visit to the beach when I was a kid (which was a very long time ago!)
Habebty
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Beachy Head, Dungeness, Spithead(Dolphin), last year, and Maplin sands area the year before.
PaulGooch
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We saw one near the Towers, off Felixstowe in 2009, not seen one since. Some seals in Walton Backwaters. We're back in The Wash at the moment and the place has a zillion seals.
MoodySabre
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I've seen porpoises and seals in the Blackwater. The only places I have seen dolphins in Wales and in Scotland - deep clear water. Having them playing round the boat is marvellous.
sailorman
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some we have seen in the North Sea
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o88/orwellbridge/?action=view¤t=ASF_0027.mp4
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o88/orwellbridge/?action=view¤t=ASF_0027.mp4
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DavidofMersea
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Beachy Hd a few weeks ago
A couple of weeks ago we were sitting on the terrace at the Anchor in Rowhedge and we saw something like that - Could it have been a porpoise?
tidclacy
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Saw a couple of porpoises in the Wallet last weekend off Clacton Pier. Lots of seals in the Crouch, counted over a hundred on Buxey sands and off Buxey no 2 earlier in the season.
Supine Being
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We saw a porpoise in the Crouch back in May, and a pod of them outside Calais n June. Last summer I saw a pod of dolphin off Foulness Sands. Here are tons of seal... we saw quite a lot in the Roach a fortnight ago, and my son took these off Buxey Sands when we were out in April
johnalison
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My dolphin photos are almost as bad as Sailorman's. In the days of film it was very tricky if you didn't want to waste too much money. The ones in salcombe seemed ready to pose:
And I even caught one's beak:
With a digital camera you can poop off as many shots at their rear ends as you wish:
And I even caught one's beak:
With a digital camera you can poop off as many shots at their rear ends as you wish:
Oscarpop
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We just came back from a cruise up the coast.
We saw a mother and baby yesterday in the mouth of the Colne and then another on our way across the estuary.
It is however a lot of luck I hadn't seen any more in the previous 12 months.
We saw a mother and baby yesterday in the mouth of the Colne and then another on our way across the estuary.
It is however a lot of luck I hadn't seen any more in the previous 12 months.
rubberduck
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So pot luck then, will go have a nose down the blackwater & thereabouts.
ex-Gladys
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I've seen them in the blackwater every year for the past 4 or 5 years, maybe once or twice a year. You have to be lucky to see them, they breach so fast, and you'd have to be even luckier to photograph them