SEIL AND EASDALE

Porpoises are no strangers to the seas round Seil and Easdale but the arrival of this unexpected ‘first finner’ in a quarry pool directly behind Ellenabeich’s Oyster pub and restaurant stirred up plenty of interest over the New Year.

According to some villagers, it was the first time a porpoise had ever been spotted in the pool.

Originally it was thought there were two of them but over the new year period just one was coming into view, said Dawn Singleton from The Oyster: ‘There has been lots of porpoise-spectating from our decking over the New Year. We think there were two at first but then there was only one. The other one must have got out. We think the one remaining may have been stuck.

Dawn said they had been in touch with the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust which asked to be kept informed. However by Monday this week it was thought the porpoise had safely made its own way out to wider seas.