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[GarethB]

With this lot, it does not take much to make them go off at a tangent.

Quote statistics that anyone can understand and they pick up on totally the wrong thing

Then off goes the thread and later I have to move it

Matthew spends a lot of time with the fishes so we like to make him feel at home

[Alison Fisher]

Apologies Justine for the sharks, but I do believe it was Gareth who mentioned them first.

I know no two people's experiences are the same but I am curious about how things have changed since I had my grafts. I was kept in two nights for the first one and one night for the second. The same surgeon did both but I had a continuous stitch in one and individual stitches in the other. Apart from that both grafts were pretty similar.

[Andrew MacLean]

Justine

You'll get used to our funny ways. The truth is, we are all easily distracted. Sharks, Dr Who, ... well the information about KC is always based on sound experience, but then we wander!

John, the regular moderator, has no more success in keeping us on topic than Gareth.

Andrew

[Matthew_]

Anyway..back to these time travelling sharks.....

[Andrew MacLean]

I used to love watching the basking sharks around Arran. They grow so big that lots of people think they are seeing two sharks, reading the Dorsel fin and the tip of the tail on the same animal as two dorsels.

I am not sure that there are as many sharks in the Clyde now. Can you shed any light, Matthew, or is it just that my sight has deteriorated to the point where I can't see them any more?

[Matthew_]

Andrew,
Basking Sharks are back They did decline but the Clyde is cleaner place now plus climate change has helped in this case. We now have had a few sightings and our sailors and pilots (nautical not areonautical) have to report sightings to keep the database going. We have also had some turtle sightings plus our usual grey seal (which I see almost everyday), eider ducks, oystercatchers and so on. If you had a favourite spotting area and you are able to go back, try it. If you see any, the Save Our Seas project would definitely want to hear from you. If you want to more follow this link http://www.saveourseas.com Or if you do see any, you can let me know and I'll make sure they get to hear about it. I can hear Gareth's scissors...snip...snip Can you think of a link between basking sharks (you didn't mention whether the one you could see were capable of time travel) and KC. I suppose basking sharks can probably see better than us too!

[Andrew MacLean]

The link is easy: we need to have pretty good sight to spot sharks as they break the water. We even see seals at Port Glasgow (I think they swim in the channel to catch fish, crustaceans etc), as well as a wide variety of wading birds.

As you know, the old timber ponds, where they seasoned wood for building timber ships, silted up and the resulting mud flats are a rich source of food for a wide variety of waders and aquatic birds/mammals.

from time to time we see porpoise and even the occasional whale as far up the river as here.

We used to spot sharks at Corrie on Arran. Our children (now grown up) used to enjoy reporting sightings at the warden's office in Brodick Castle.

Having my sight restored means that I can again enjoy all this wild life in and around the edges of the river.

Andrew

[Matthew_]

Yes, that's good..enjoy! There is plenty to see as you say, the Clyde is booming with wildlife.