Oh Island in the Sun - Part I

 On no more than a whim we decided to chug off the Weymouth and North Portland on what looked more like an Autumn day than Mid-Summer

due to a Trick of the Sun, and no we haven't forgotten the Moth Traps!
A fine trio of 'first's for the year'

SCALLOP SHELL

BLACK ARCHES
and

SMALL DOTTED BUFF

ditto
the next time we looked we were at

FERRYBRIDGE PORTLAND 

under quite a different cloud formation with

most obliging

OYSTERCATCHERs

kicking off proceedings.

Scanning the fore-shore and the Fleet most promising were the calls of Terns
which we would chase up later after concentrating on the equally obliging

MEDITERRANIAN GULLs

mostly adults

but also

in the mix

a number of

Younger Individuals

At a mooring in the middle of the Fleet a barge holding

LOBSTER / CRAB POTS
which would surely have gone A.W.O.L. had they been left ashore!

and to end what will likely become a 'trilogy'

RAG-WORM CASTs