It jumped again, and I saw this time that it was too big to be a dolphin, and darker in colour, with three long dark fins on its back. I realised that it must be a seamonster. I pressed the button with the camera set to burst mode, as it disappeared again among the waves.
Then I hurried back to the car to get her moved before the light went and the sea came up to the wheels. I didn't have time to check the photos on the camera then, so when I got up this morning, I hurried to check if any of my sea-monster photos had come out looking good.
Sadly, there were no sea-monster photos on my photo card. There were only these:


I dream about sea-monsters a lot. No idea why.