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| Spot the dolphin dorsal competition |
The famous Beatles parody of the Beach Boys was running through my mind as I donend my drysuit after my short stint in Mauritius. Today Jester, Fast Ed and the Wylie Fox all headed to St Catherines for a dip. We arrived early, fortunately for my body clock hasn't recovered from my travels so it didn't feel as bad as it usually does to get up early.
When we emerged from the cars we saw a pod of dolphins or porpoise playing just off the shore. Needless to say they are almost impossible to photograph but if you look closely at the picture above you can see a dorsal fin in the top right quadrant of the picture - no, it's not just a mark on your screen. Well, unless you have a mark on your screen and you can see two small dorsal fins.
We kitted up and headed off, taking advantage of the low tide to get down to the bottom of the deep reef at just 35m before coming back up.
It was cold and bright two factors which I reckoned probably scared away half of the life we'd usually find on the reef. Or perhaps the presence of a local dive school and a padi openwater student was enough to clinch the deal!
We entered the water before the school with a promise to "not stir up the muck". I think we duly obliged and I explained that they (the school) wouldn't be going anywhere near where we were. :)
The visibility was good, but life was limited to the odd Yarrell's Blenny and a nice wee cushion star. We saw one nudibranch, but it was too small for either myself or Jester to successfully photograph.
Once out of the water both myself and the Wylie Fox knew that it was too cold for us to want to do another dive, but that didn't stop Jester and Fast Ed from going in again.
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| Cushion star |
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| Jester |
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| Yarrell's Blenny |
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