Snorkelboy said:
Get some binoculars. Head out to Limeslade (if you don't know it ask for the Castellamarre restaurant which is on the headland which makes the Western arm of the bay) It's walkable from Mumbles.
You've then got the choice of going round the back of the restaurant and Coastguard station (Tutt Head), going to the end of the Eastern Arm of the Bay, or best of all walking 10 mins East on the coastal path until the path climbs steeply, as it reaches the brow of a little hill and makes a turn there's some railings. Sit on the other side of them.
Scan with your eyes and only use the binoculars once you've seen them. Theyre usually arounf the tidal race (which appears as a big strip of water that looks rougher than the rest of the sea). If you're in Limeslade it's slightly to your right, if you're on the coastal path it's to your left.
If the sea is choppy don't bother, you'll never see them unless they're right under your nose.
BTW - that guy in the tuna pic is a mate of mine - lovely bloke and sure knows his stuff.
(This si for porpoise mind, not dolphin - unless you're very very lucky)
I know exactly where you mean
Can you put in a good word for me? seeing as you're so in with the dolphins, I was hoping they'd come up close and go 'clickety clackety' at me in person.
Acorrding to Ian Brown dolphins were monkeys which went back to the sea, but it's been a few million years since we chatted up close and personal, so a go between would be great to reintroduce us like.
If you don't believe me I have evidence in these here lyrics....
"So I'm caught in the middle, you're next to me
I swim with the fishes, you come from the sea
The dolphins were monkeys, that didn't like the land
Walked back to the water, went back from the sand
The dolphins were monkeys, that didn't like the land
Should I be walking the beach, and I'll be holding your hand
Yeah"
Nostradamus eat your heart out
