I spend quite a bit of time visiting Mrs chris' family on the Isle of Bute. One of my favourite passtimes whilst on the island is to take a stroll from Kilchatten Bay to Glen Callum Bay and to look out for porpoises. It is a rare walk when nothing is seen.
Yesterday I was a couple of hundred yards from Kilchatten Bay when I spotted a couple of porpoises a long way from the shore. I stopped to watch and after a short while there were about a dozen porpoises breaking the surface and occasionally there was a splash much larger than I have ever seen a porpoise make. It appeared that something much larger than a porpoise was chasing the porpoises, but I'm not sure what it was. I had my camera with me, but it was all happening too far out to get a clear picture. I did manage to get a few shots and after some serious cropping these are the results -
The fin to the left is a porpoise.
Is it just a bottle nose dolphin or may be a female orca? Any ideas?
