One Day in Spey Bay

 What might you see in just one summer day's visit to the special place where the River Spey meets the sea?

Maybe something like this:

Sea Aster

Giant hogweed - an invading species with sap that burns.

Large white.

Heron on the far bank of the River Spey

View from the shingle bar at the river mouth 

Looking up the river

The old railway bridge

Roebuck

Terns

Dolphin watchers

A raft of mergansers just offshore

Rock pipet

Angler

Distant ospreys

And again

Statue outside the WDC dolphin centre

Dolphin Days

There is a special place, a little promontory on the edge of vast bay where dolphins come to visit. This place is increasingly well known and people from all around the world visit. They stand on a pebble ridge and look out hopefully across the water towards the opposite shore. 

This is Chanonry Point in the Moray Firth a short distance from Inverness. 

Chanonry Point from the opposite shore - the lighthouse picked out in the sunshine.

A small crowd is gathered and soon they are rewarded,

Dolphin fireworks.

Fort George - the Victorian fortress on the far shore with a mother and calf in between.

This is Spirtle, a miracle dolphin who survived stranding and terrible sunburn that has left characteristic but fully healed white scarring. 

Starting the leap.

Mid-leap - a spectacular sideways breach! 

The landing!