SEAL POINT TO KEIL POINT

[maganru]

Drove my Mum home to Southend on Saturday and it was, as usual, a beautiful drive. Have always looked for the seals at Ronanchan and this time there were none. However, when we visited the cemetery at Keil that evening there must have been at least 100 seals on the rocks there. The tide was out and had I had better footwear on I could have walked up to dozens of them. Over recent years there have always been one or two bobbing about in the water at the cemetery gates but I have never seen so many there. Long may they stay!

[Kevin Mc]

Were the seals always there? It's just that I can't remember seeing them as a kid when I was up in Campbeltown for the summer.

There are usually loads at Machrihanish too around here:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pa28&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=17.707104,39.506836&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Campbeltown,+Argyllshire+PA28,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.423266,-5.741172&spn=0.016561,0.038581&z=15&layer=c&cbll=55.42325,-5.740986&panoid=4Scktb3RUqSJtt9jgvvv-g&cbp=12,40.56,,2,3.65

In fact I think there may be some in that picture but it's not very sharp..

[petewick]

It's possible there could have been a pod of killer whales further out, they drive all
other species ashore.