Dolphin mega pod

This is what it looks like when you swim right inside the pod

The light in the water changed, so many dolphins were around

Swimming while communicating with the others

The dolphins were just centimeters away

It's not even 10:00 a.m. I'm out in the sea with Leo watching fish and talking marine life when I see a big splash at the other side of our bay. Dolphins !

I quickly row back, take fins masks and Raffaella, my wife, drop Leo, and out we row again. By the time we are out there again in front of the coral reef, which is about 60-70m, the dolphins have arrived.

There are many of them. The small ones are in the front. They are playing with each other, tickling, jumping, swimming belly up. It's a joy to watch.
Then come different groups of adults. I guess there are at least thirty dolphins here today. They stretch out over 100m. What a sight !

We paddle alongside them. They watch us from below, following below us. There is a crazy one zigzagging infront of us.

Then I glide softly into the water. Soon I'm surrounded by the pod. There are so many that the water darkens. We start swimming together, I'm one with the pod. The sound of sonar is clearly audible for as long as we swim together. There are more dolphins behind me that must be studying this weird phenomena that I represent.
They communicate by whistling. One of them swims with his mouth open. Is he whistling?
We swim like this for a good stretch, me part of the pod as my forces slowly fade. Boy, it is hard to keep up...

Raffaella, who followed me, picks me up. We start paddling, Raffaella paddles really well with strong even strokes, and soon catch up with the pod.

She is thrilled by the spectacle but does not feel like going in. So I go in again.

This time I'm swimming with a young adult group. They are really cool. I start following one specific one, singling him out, he senses it and breaks out of the group, turns back to approach me from behind, but this time I follow him and we start to swim in circles. Now the others are joining in to the game and it gets quite exciting. This group has decided to stay with me while the rest of the mega pod has moved on.
I'm so out of breath that I can't even dive anymore, breathing in short strokes. I call it quits and mount back on the kayak.
Now we are in the far away bay, our usual turning point.
I go in once more. My tube is not well attached and I drink a bucket of water... Yah. That must be what drowning is like.

Let's call it a day. This was as good as it gets.