A large shoal of mackerel feeding on white bait in Falmouth Bay has seen a bonanza for wildlife watchers, with a record nine Minke whales spotted on one trip.

Amanda from AK Wildlife Cruises said that on Saturday watchers onboard the Free Spirit saw thousands of tiny whitebait erupt out of the sea, followed in hot pursuit by vast shoals of feeding, frenzied Mackerel.

With the sea's surface "erupting in the feeding frenzy" nine Minke whale was sighted feeding along with porpoise and 1,000s of Manx shearwaters within a three mile area of the bay.

Amanda said: "Some were youngsters at about fifteen feet in length and others were full adults at some thirty feet in length. What an incredible sight to behold, and all in a perfect flat calm mill pond like sea conditions.

"These animals were spending quiet a long time deep under water feeding spending up to eight to ten minutes feeding before surfacing several times to descend back down to feast on the vast shoals of bait fish below.

"At one location we had four whales up at once."

"We believe this is a record number of Minke whales ever seen together at one time in Falmouth Bay and quite probably for the whole of the South West of England."

"Along with all the enjoyment of so many cetaceans we also located seals, a beautiful Blue Shark finning along, thousands of feeding Manx and Sooty Shearwaters, a Great Skua or Bonxie and quite a few Rhizostoma Pulmo or Barrel Jellyfish."