A break from the computer to make a drink was rewarded by a pod of early season dolphins coming in to the Sound of Sleat.
After a quick trip down from the house to the foreshore two mistakes were made. One I put on a jacket, not needed on this beautifully warm February morning. And the second? Having two options to get to the shore I chose left and the dolphins went right. I managed to get reasonably close following a scramble on the rocks but it was an unfair competition when they finally decided to move around the headland.I had enough time to admire their grace and agility from relatively close quarters as they rounded up fish during a quite energetic feeding period.With my back ground in sport, it never ceases to impress me the team work, cohesion and selflessness that is found throughout mother nature. The pod put on a show in the natural bowl that the Sound of Sleat forms at Aird which for me was the equal of any sporting encounter that I have had the good fortune to watch.Like their Miami Dolphin counter parts the dolphins at Aird of Sleat certainly knew how to put on a show in their very own Superbowl.
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