Christine's walking & birds blog

A tiny fish, a crab, and a couple of shrimps seemed to be the liveliest inhabitants of a rock-pool at Rhue, until there was a loud "plop!"- and something dark and tapering slid swiftly under a flat stone. I waited patiently in the sun and eventually the head of a probable European eel cautiously emerged.

The eel drew back under the stone, but later I saw the whole creature when it darted out after a prey item. It was about 8 inches (whoops - I mean about 20 centimetres) long and was the largest thing I've managed to see in a rock-pool.