I'll tell you a little secret. The tourist authority in Cornwall has a hotline to the redtops. Every year as soon as the basking sharks are seen, some idiot reports a great white off Cornwall. This fills up all the available boats with reporters and their cameras. It helps to make up for a rotten winters fishing. The baskers move around from mounts bay to sennen cove then up to the isle of man. Lots of excitement. I've snorkelled with basking sharks off porthcurno. They eat a lot of plankton. What nobody reports is the orca off gurnards head. I have to say that the day I saw one doing his shamu impression, I was gobsmacked.They don't get reported because killer whales eating baby seals is not good for the tourist industry.
It's the killer coconuts you have to watch out for. More people get killed by coconuts falling on their heads each year, than get eaten or maimed by sharks.
Of course there's not many coconut palms in Cornwall either.
I've been lucky enought to see basking sharks on a boat trip out from Falmouth and a few years ago there were at least 12 swimming round in a circle just off Perranporth.
Orcas are occasionally seen on the crossing over to the Scillies.
I saw my first adder last week, Verdun. I know there not your favourite creatures but I love to see them. This one was only a baby. I've taken the camera back every day to try and get a photo but it hasn't re- appeared.
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I'll tell you a little secret. The tourist authority in Cornwall has a hotline to the redtops. Every year as soon as the basking sharks are seen, some idiot reports a great white off Cornwall. This fills up all the available boats with reporters and their cameras. It helps to make up for a rotten winters fishing. The baskers move around from mounts bay to sennen cove then up to the isle of man. Lots of excitement. I've snorkelled with basking sharks off porthcurno. They eat a lot of plankton. What nobody reports is the orca off gurnards head. I have to say that the day I saw one doing his shamu impression, I was gobsmacked.They don't get reported because killer whales eating baby seals is not good for the tourist industry.
We had a great white here yesterday!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's the killer coconuts you have to watch out for. More people get killed by coconuts falling on their heads each year, than get eaten or maimed by sharks.
Of course there's not many coconut palms in Cornwall either.
I like Greg Norman
Hopefully they will be the 'unwashed' might lessen our water rates a tad.
I've been lucky enought to see basking sharks on a boat trip out from Falmouth and a few years ago there were at least 12 swimming round in a circle just off Perranporth.
Orcas are occasionally seen on the crossing over to the Scillies.
I saw my first adder last week, Verdun. I know there not your favourite creatures but I love to see them. This one was only a baby. I've taken the camera back every day to try and get a photo but it hasn't re- appeared.
My not very impressive photo of the basking shark I saw off Falmouth.