Ospreys and dolphins!

Today, the weather was too rough, so we stayed on shore and decided to take the Sealife volunteers to the Wildlife Center. We had just taken a closer look at the exhibition and the new Harbour Garden and - for us – newly re-arranged shop when we met colleague Alice outside on “shore watch” talking to some visitors about the work WDCS does up in Scotland. She had just taken these visitors on a tour of the ice house and left us in charge of the big eyes binoculars when an osprey made its appearance dropping into the water and taking off with a fish in its claws. Brilliant sight! Then Scott said peaking through the big eyes: “I can see a black fin out there!” And he was so right! A small group of about 4 dolphins started to frolic just outside the river mouth to the joy of about 25 school children from an elementary school in Elgin, our Sealife volunteers and all the other visitors at the center!

We followed them with the big eyes all the way through the bay until we lost them in the haze and the waves. Excellent! After a refreshing lunch, Alice took us round the center and into the ice house, impressing the volunteers with whale bones and orca teeth and squeaky dolphin sounds from the sonobuoy in the bay.

On our way back to the cottage I spotted some dolphins just off of Buckpool jumping through the waves. We watched them for about 10 minutes until they had gone and all of us went home with a big grin on our faces! Maybe we will see them tomorrow when we go out?

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