Wednesday

Valentina joined me today for the third encounter

With our departure from Egypt this summer in mind any occasion is good to drop everything and run to the beach. How could I leave my father in law, who is visiting us, in dusty Cairo ? Isn't it my duty to take him to the sea where he can have extended walks and breathe clean air ?
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So here we are, it's the middle of the week and we are alone in the compound. The beach is all ours. No other souls around.
It' s hot, around 40*C, no wind, flat sea.

10:45, our friends arrive

We meet up, the pod is relaxed, no warning signals are given, I'm swimming right beside a female with her calf.
The big male with his dorsal fin missing is there.
And a big male arrives from behind, in full errection. His dick looks like a hook and is pointed. The size is similar to our human instruments. With a swift movement the thing is pulled back under his skin and disappears. The dolphin penis is under the skin and only extrudes when needed. Not a bad idea by nature as in this way there is no friction that could slow down dolphins when they swim.

At first I'm among them, then I'm slightly behind them, then I'm so far behind that they start to fade in the water, then they are gone.

I wished I could swim faster.

Unfortunately the batteries of my camera mask are empty. I think there is a problem with this video mask as it sometimes refuses to swith off. That propably drained my batteries...
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1 p.m. The Loner

Batteries are replaced.
There ! A lonely dolphin !
It's difficult to spot him as he comes up to beathe rarely. So while in the water I try to make out where he is. There ! He avoided me.
I go back on the kayak and follow him. He goes fast, I go fast, suddenly he arrives and zigzags in front of the kayak. We move together, he slows down, looks at me from below the water, we speed up again.
Then he stops. I stop. He seems to expect me to go in. I do and he swims right towards me. We swim together for approx. 100m. He moves forward, then waits. The kayak is far away by now, I have to return.

The loner

Hey, that was really nice!
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15:45 - Chinese White Dolphins !

After lunch and a Sakkara my eyes are half open, the metabolism is working at 50%, I'm on the phone when Valentina calls. I can't really hear what she says but she keeps making gestures towards the water. Dolphins !

Hop, the kayak, out we row. A dolphin sticks his head straight out of the water, looking out for us. They jump and play, staying in the same spot, seemingly waiting for us. Soon we are there and then I see it: these are NOT bottlenose dolphins ! This is a whole pod of chinese white dolphins ! I saw one only once about a year ago. They have become very rare. I wrote last year about my awe and this nearly religious feeling when encountering such a threathened living being...

If you look closely you will see three dolphins here

Chinese White dolphins look distinctly different from bottlenose dolphins

These dolphins have a very pointed nose 

They very extremely playful, quick and curious

The head form is very pointed

Coming to check us out

The dorsal fin is clearly visible here

And the group, we engaged with about six dolphins, although I suspect there were more, was very playful and interactive. Their character seems to be more open and curious. They sped pas Valentina and me, turning around, stopping, looking with enormous curiosity at us - wondering what we are ... As if they never saw humans.

Then they disappeared, to reappear again, whistling, moving fast.
This session lasted approximately 20 min.

Eventually it was time to get back to the abandoned kayak that was floating some good distance in the middle of the sea.