Seals in Chichester Marina

[ricky_s]

Where is the best place to see them?

 

[benjenbav]

Immediately ahead of a fast sailing dinghy with an intemperate helmsman, maybe?

 

[Barbican]

Where is the best place to see them?

Try the east side of Pilsea

 

[VicS]

Would these be Seal 22s, Super Seal 26s, Seal 28s or are you equally interested in all boats in the Seal range?

 

[Solitaire]

Where is the best place to see them?

Hmm.not sure where!

http://4pack.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/navyseals.jpg

East Head?

 

[EugeneR]

If you mean Chichester Harbor, there's supposed to be / have been seals on Pilsey Island...

http://www.troppo.co.uk/tightwad/pilsey.htm

 

[nicho]

"Sammy" the seal was a regular visitor inside Chichester Marina. He/she used to stay inside the marina for some time where there was a regular supply of fish. The last time I saw it there, was a couple of years ago.

 

[Solitaire]

Where is the best place to see them?

Joking aside, in the more than 20 years I have been boating in the Solent, both as a hobby boater and in my role as an instructor who is on the water a lot of the time I have seen seals only 4 times. When I was a coxswain for the Portsmouth Harbour Patrol some 3/4 years ago there was a dolphin that played around the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour. He was great, would follow the twin outboard cat with his head between the outboard and would leap and play behind the boat - it was great to see. Unfortunately he was run down by one of the tugs and was heard crying under the piers. it was well documented at the time.

Since then, apart from the pictures I have already posted of the seal in Newtown Creek there are very few sightings. Lets face it, the Solent is very busy and seals are wild animals that seek solitude, so if you see them you are very lucky and I suspect that in the summer they are keeping well away!

 

[nicho]

We recently took the grandchildren to the beach on Hayling Island. Loads of kids in the water, when a seal swam by, right through the middle of them. No kids came screaming from the water, and the seal happily continued on it's way towards Chi Harbour entrance, no doubt leaving the West Pole to port!!

 

[moonraker 36]

seen them inland..
river trent@gainsborough.
river witham@ boston..

 

[iangrant]

Marker Point

Just south of the S Cardinal on the sand to the East lolling around.

Couple of little pups this year as well.

Ian

 

[ricky_s]

Doh!

Obviously I meant to say the harbour and not the marina.

 

[MVP]

We saw one just off the visitors berth at Sparkes a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Fantasie 19]

Seen one two times (once per year!) in Chichester harbour - both times it was on the corner heading into Sweare Deep (towards Hayling bridge/Northney marina)... magical...

 

[Elessar]

Where is the best place to see them?

saw this fella as I was rowing out to my then mooring - rowed out of sparkes, this is the mud just to the west of the channel.

 

[Theshipscat]

We saw a seal near the marina only a few weeks ago. I think he chases the fish up the channel to the lock. I've also seen seals near Langstone Sailing club at half tide.