The new Grey Seal visiting Newquay Harbour yesterday greeted us on return from a spectacuarly beautiful Scenic Newquay Sea Safari where we spotted a seal hauled out and 4 in the sea. As yet the seal is unamed by the Cornwall Seal Group photo ID data base and so after spotting some unusually long ear flaps we have nicknamed this gorgeous seal “Shrek”. He is still a little timid but very respectful around Dr Who the large Bull Seal who always takes top spot in the begging for fish from the boats. Shrek has a few scars to his back which sadly points to prop strike..a hazard of becoming too close to boats. He has also picked up a fish feather and hook ! Hopefully this will work its way out or drop out during his annual molt. Lucky divers during the morning trips saw 2 basking sharks and two pods of common dolphins both with juveniles but we were unable to spot them later in the afternoon. However we did see a huge flock of at least 250 Gannets diving for fish which was quite spectacular and 1 compass jellyfish and 1 moon jellyfish.
