What a morning, the 4:30am wake up was worth it! I am currently sat enjoying a breakfast after spending the early hours of this morning swimming in the sea with wild dusky dolphins! After donning a wetsuit, some flippers and snorkel mask onboard a boat I slipped into the sea, started to swim around and within a couple of minutes some dolphins were darting past me.
The visibility wasn't fantastic so we were encouraged to make noises but not splash, the noises make the dolphins curious so more come to investigate but splashes scare them off. We did three separate dives and at one point I had two circling around me under the water as we studied each other.
The company we chose to go with also work hard to not do any damage to the dolphins or their environment. The animals are truly wild, not trained or encouraged to interact with people in any way so the fact that we got to see and swim with them was absolutely incredible. A day to remember.
Did You Know?: A group of dolphins is called a pod.
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