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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KRS1" data-source="post: 1867948" data-attributes="member: 76069">Seems life on land puts me more out of touch with technology than life at sea these days!  Stephen - our sightings from the last 2 weeks pretty much correlate with yours, e.g. not a whole lot!  Though 2 definite and 2 probable Northern Bottlenose Whales at least kept the enthusiasm going for Richard, who now refuses to believe that Sperm Whales exist in the Bay! Aside from the NBWs, the regular pod/superpod of between 300 and 1000+ Common Dolphins has been encountered fairly routinely, alongside "hundreds of Striped Dolphins", a few Long-finned Pilot Whales early one morning along the northern continental shelf in the Bay, a sprinkling of Minke's in the western Channel, 4 Green Turtle and a Basking Shark level with Plymouth in the western Channel and 2 or 3 reports of large rorqual blows from passengers.  Back out tomorrow for 3 weeks so if anyone wants to know sightings, in terms of how it'll shape as a Pride alternative in coming seasons, I can pop back here.  If not, then the blog address in my previous post will have a summary fairly regularly.  Black Kites are ludicrous in Santander itself.  Like yourself Stephen, I don't often leave the ship in port and never fail to have Black Kite.  One even had what appeared to be a small Cat/Kitten in its grip at the end of May. Cheers!Lisle Gwynn - ORCA Wildlife Officer - Cap Finistere<a href="http://www.orcaweb.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.orcaweb.org.uk/</a></blockquote>

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