Otters in Glandore

I was sitting at the desk a couple of weeks ago and just happened to glance out my window to watch the snow that had begun to fall quite heavely when I noticed something swimming across the harbour. The tide was about a quarter of the way in with hardly a ripple on the water so it was quite noticable. I grabbed the binoculars that I keep on the window sill and found it was an otter. Wow! I'd never seen an otter before. I watched for a few seconds and then to my surprise another two otters appeared beside the first and begun to play with each other. I watched the three otters for about 30 mins. They would swim along beside each other for a few moments and tthen plop! One of them would dive down, being followed by its two playmates. At one point a single otter came out the water and climbed, or rather lolloped, up the stone steps on the quay and scuttled around for a few minutes befor hoping back down into the water to join its companions. Blimy, I thought. Otters are like Dublin buses - You wait years for one and then three come along, one after another.