Young basking shark in Scrabster harbour

[thebigman]

A small basking shark was swimming around off the ferry terminal pier late this afternoon.

Not the best pics as I was on the high road to the lighthouse.

[Tugmistress]

I saw it while we were waiting to take the gangway off, it passed the end of the pier then turned back round to go back in to the harbour, but by the time i had finished with the ferry and then got my kit off i couldn't see it anywhere

[thebigman]

It was right in the corner at the ferry terminal watched it for about five mins cruising about feeding. Could see the open mouth. This was at the back of four.

[Tugmistress]

It was about 6.40pm we saw it!

[kas]

Cannot see it anymore, I have been looking every 15 mins





Its the 4th one this year here that we know of.

[Geo]

Watched it for about 15 minutes at 3:15pm. Was a lovely sight. I thought I caught a glimpse at about 8:30pm in the same area but not sure. There was definitely a dark object that broke the surface briefly, like its nose but disappeared again. The tide was pretty far in by then so it will have deeper water to play in so maybe not surfacing as much.