Back in June during our trip to Scotland, a visit to Chanonry Point on the Moray Firth on a cold, mainly grey day hoping to see the most northerly pod of Bottle Nosed Dolphins around the UK.
Waiting on the beach looking across to Fort George, a dolphin surfaces.
Difficult mammals to photograph, as by the time you have spotted one breaking the surface, the dolphin is already on its way down into the water. Plenty of photographs of fins and tails, so I was really pleased to get these two leaping out of the water. They only performed complete leaps on two or three occasions so I count myself very lucky to catch this leap.
More luck with a close pass by the shore, I had spotted the first dolphin surface, and would have only had the fin and tail, but for the second dolphin surfacing slightly later, allowing me to catch it's head.
The shingle beach looking south west towards Inverness and the Great Glen.
A dolphin fin showing a scar?
A wonderful experience well worth the wait in the cold.
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