Sunfish

[FWB]

Following on from the Basking Shark sightings, another creature to look out for is the Sunfish.
I took these photos a few years ago in Falmouth bay, look for the flappy dorsal fin.

 

[FullCircle]

We stopped the boat in Biscay to marvel at one of those. Weird nature at work....

 

[Neil]

Saw one in Ballinskelligs Bay once; it just looked like a big floating blob and barely flapped about in a very desultory fashion - until we went over to touch it and it shot off quicker than a rat up a drain pipe

 

[Twister_Ken]

Mola Mola - they can get quite big…

 

[KevO]

We saw 4 different ones last summer ... All in the Pendower Beach / Portscatho area.

 

[Burnham Bob]

saw the fin of one off the north devon coast at Watermouth Cove - did a double take before i realised it wasn't a shark

 

[jimi]

Seen them a couple of times near Wolf RocK between the Lizard and the Scillies

 

[NPMR]

Saw one last Thursday on way back from Fowey. Also saw lots, and I really mean lots, of big jelly fish and in Fowey, some almost translucent small ones. Seems early but perhaps they've been blown in?

 

[Dipper]

I saw the fin of one off St Alban's Head in September a few years ago. It was massive. We had to swerve to avoid hitting it.

 

[simon barefoot]

Used to see loads in the Bristol Channel, only a few down here in S. Cornwall