Swimming with wild dolphins: The Dolphin ramble

Hello again !

It´s past 2 p.m. A group of dolphins appears from the north.
We take the kayak and Marco, Charlotte´s cousin, along. He is excited to swim with the dolphins too. When we reach the group we give him the sign to go in. He takes his mask and adjusts it, and adjusts it again, and then gets slowly ready to go in. But the group is already well past.
We give it another try, row and row, until we give him a second go. He goes in a little quicker and catches a glimpse of two dolphins. It´s no so easy, one has to get the drift to move along with the pod. The dolphins usually don´t wait.

Then I go in. There are five young dolphins, one of them is a female, maybe two.
They are venturing out, away from the adults, enjoying their adolescent bloom and hormons. They can´t leave off each other, the males try again and again to move underneath the female, fully erect.

We get a warm welcome. The come around and let us into the group. As we swim along they slowly increase the speed until I loose them. Then Charlotte goes in. The dolphins literally stop in the water to wait for her. I have never seen that before. Then they circle around her.

She twists and turns in the water and the dolphins are all around her. They give her the special treatment. Maybe because she is younger and they still see the child in her ? Or maybe because she is a girl ? Or maybe its because she swims without a wetsuit ? Anyway, it´s beautiful to see how they engage.

The dolphins are highly sexual active. Two young males try their luck on on female. Rubbing, swimming belly up underneath her. Charlotte snaps away on her camera mask, only to find later that she had hit the wrong button and switched on the video function. The picture quality is poor.