Tales from the Lagoon ~ Episode - Trusting New Flippered Friends
Tales from the Lagoon ~ Episode - Trusting New Flippered Friends
Yesterday I spent 4 hours with a new pod of dolphins. I have probably met them before yesterday but we hadn’t spent quality time like this together.
The morning started out with chasing fish, mostly mullet and jacks. There were 4 dolphins in this pod. They were like a perfect hockey team, swimming in perfect harmony always knowing where all the characters were in the lagoon.
In this series they grabbed a jack in the shallows. The dolphin with the fish rolled over on his side and just held the fish for a long while. I thought to myself, that’s like me with chocolate.
Then he started swimming toward the deeper end, just a few feet aways tossed the fish around splashed a bit then down the hatch head first it went.
Then something I had never experienced before happened. The 4 dolphin swam out to the middle of the channel and started swimming back popping out of the water at mach speed chasing a school of fish.
The fish were flying out of the water and headed right for me. I was in chest deep water at the time. The dolphins were right behind the fish also coming right at me.
As they reached me 3 dolphins went by on my right, one on my left, smooth as butter, just inches away…wooooosh! The fish went between and around my legs. Although I was a little nervous, I knew after the last 3 hours of allowing me to be in their space, we had built trust. Phew! To be a part of the pod is truly a wonderful experience, one I never take for granted.
Stay tuned for more tales!
