It was a Tuesday so only a small group went out to paddle in St Abbs. Mostly we had calm seas and light winds. The birds were nesting so we weren’t able to get into as many nooks and crannies as we would have liked but we still had a great time threading through the more exposed rocks and looking into caves. There were masses of guillemots, razor bills and fulmars, a few puffins and shags, a peregrine cruising the nests looking for vulnerable chicks. A surprising and sad discovery was a dead porpoise with fulmars standing on the floating carcase and tearing strips off it – one bird stayed on the carcase despite five kayaks clustered around it.
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A brief video clip of Coming back to St Abbs Harbour at High Tide