Gannets, Fulmars, Guillemots, Razorbills <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Puffins<\/strong> <\/em>were soon spotted and then, as we headed from Craster towards Boulmer, Andy spotted a dark shape away to the east.\u00a0 We stopped and waited, then it surfaced again.\u00a0 Guessing where it would surface next I lifted my binoculars and then almost dropped them as the centrally-placed, upright, dorsal fin of an Orca<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong> passed across my field of view!\u00a0 I’m notoriously sceptical of claims of Orca<\/strong> <\/em>in the north east but, with over 1000h offshore, I always thought I’d bump into one eventually \ud83d\ude42 I needed a longer lens on my camera so I reached into my camera bag, took out a 300mm f2.8, removed the 70-200 from the camera…and then broke the camera lens mount as I tried to attach the longer lens \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 As the distant dark shape appeared again, still heading slowly north, we suddenly had White-beaked Dolphins<\/strong><\/em> close by too.\u00a0 Eventually we had ~20 of them close to the boat, and I was stuck with one broken camera and a spare camera body that had decided that it wasn’t going to communicate properly with the lens.\u00a0 I managed to get a few record shots of the dolphins,<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong> and planned to set my alarm for early on Sunday morning so I could try to sort out camera issues before heading offshore on a North East Cetacean Project<\/a> survey.<\/p>\n
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