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| Dolphins were everywhere!� We were told that if we acted like dolphins, we would be treated like dolphins.� So...I started singing, swimming in circles, diving in and out of the water, and flapping my arms around.� It worked.� Dolphins were swimming all around me.� At one point, I felt something touching me on my right side.� I turned to see what it was and I got kicked in the face by one of the other swimmers.� It knocked my mask and snorkel off my face and I inhaled a nice, healthy dose of saltwater.� I recovered, blew the water out of my snorkel, and got back to the important stuff.� A little while later, I felt something poking me in the side again.� I was so sure I was going to get another blow to the face, but when I turned to look a dolphin flew by my face.� He was poking me!� I can't even begin to describe how excited I was.� � |
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| I realized I had forgotten to get my underwater camera out of my bag, and I swam back to the boat to get it.� I was sometimes so focused on just watching the dolphins that I forgot to snap the pictures.� I finally remembered to take some.� | |||||||||||
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| This last picture is my favorite.� It shows clearly the environment I was in.� The dolpin and I are both mostly underwater.� You can see the surface of the ocean and that his (her?) fin is above water.� We were in the water with the dolphins for around 45 minutes.� I could have spent a lifetime with them.� When we got back to the boat, we were all exhausted and freezing.� The crew estimated around 800 dolphins were in the pod we were with that day.� They stayed with us for about 20 minutes showing off with leaps and flips.� We drank hot chocolate, changed into dry clothes, and headed back to shore. | |||||||||||
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