20 dolphins dip

Inside

15h30
Dolphin alert !
Since Valentina does not join into these missions anymore due her shark phobia. Charlotte comes along.
The weather is hot, the sea is flat. We see them coming from a good distance and meet up with them pretty far up the norther stretch of our beach. The dolphins are moving south. There are at least twenty of them.

Charlotte among the pod

Chacha goes in first. The pod had stopped for her and now gets moving. She is in play mood and makes sounds and swims in circles and the big pod responds. The whole group encircles her. They turn and swim back to her, take her in and then, after a while, swim on.
Now it's my turn. This is the same pod as last week. I recognize the dolphin with half a tail fin, the crazy youth and some other adults. My mask is loose and fills with water all the time.

Among the group

Male dolphin swimming belly up

Curiosity

Deep down

Curious dolphin saying hi

Chacha goes in again. Today they are clearly closer to her. They all swim around her and watch her play with one of their group.
Now we have two pedal boats and two snorkelers coming. They are amazed. The dolphins don't stop for the snorkelers.

The young crazy one

Look at this eye ! Look at the intensity of his stare !

The young one again

We move on and while I'm in the water I hear a sound like a drill. The dolphins suddenly accelerate and move away, too fast for me to follow. I look up and here comes this jetski guy and zooms too close by. Ai !!
We catch up again, paddle alongside the pod. They watch us intensively through the surface. I go in again. The big adults adopt me. When they look at me they look me deep into the eye - straight into my soul. Their stare speaks volumes.
Another jetski zooms by, then a motorboat and the session ends,
Like so many things in life.