A Sunfish on the Beach!

On a bright New Year's Eve in 2014, a visitor came across a sunfish washed up on the beach at Holme-next-the-Sea. The discovery is best handled as a small story with context, not as a plain image set.

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Sunfish washed up on the beach at Holme-next-the-Sea

Sunfish washed up on the beach at Holme-next-the-Sea, December 31st, 2014

Photo Jeremy Colston

On a bright and crisp New Year's Eve, 2014 Jeremy Colston, a visitor from Claypole near Newark, was enjoying a walk on the beach here at Holme-next-the-Sea when he came across this strange looking fish washed up near the shoreline.

It is a rather small Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola). Although more often found in warmer waters they are being seen more frequently around our coast.