There was a great deal of excitement in the anchorage today. All morning long three dolphins swam in between the sailboats and played while cruisers sat on their decks watching the show. It is always difficult to get still shots of dolphins so of the ones I took, these caught them and the others show a ripple in the water where they just dove under. I always forget that it is better to take video of dolpins. The photos were taken from the deck of
Seas the Day. At times they were next to us and then left to visit other boats. In the photo above, one dolphin is on her back and another is diving. The third seems to be floating. The one on her back liked to spin around vertically in the water with just her nose showing. She did it over and over. (photo right)
One neighbor said he was taking video and caught two jumping in the air, synchronized, as if they were escapees from Sea World. (We once watched a dolphin we named Flipper who was following us while we were sailing in the ocean and did a flip in the air.) When you watch the antics of dolphins in the wild, you wonder who is training who at Sea World and other water parks.
Some cruisers jumped in the water with their snorkels and swam with the dolphins, who seemed to enjoy the company. It’s odd. No matter how often we see these graceful sea creatures, we always stop what we are doing and watch them in awe. They never fail to put a smile on everyone’s faces.