Monday 8 December 2008

Swimming with Dolphins in Kaikoura


Sorry it's taken us so long to get these photos up. Lots of you have asked about the dolphins and here they are. It was such an incredible day- I'll never forget the feeling of swimming along and a dolphin swooping up beside me to have a closer look at me. They take you round in circles as a game and then dart away into the open sea. We were told that if we sang down our snorkels they'd come and check out the noise. I sang my heart out down that snorkel and it worked- they came and looked at me as if to say what's this crazy animal saying? I can see now why people say it's a spiritual experience swimming with dolphins. I wouldn't put it quite that way, but there was certainly some kind of communication going on between the people and the dolphins- some sort of understanding. Beautiful, elegant and so fast- what amazing creatures. We also saw a humpback whale who came up to breathe for a while and give his back a good scratch on our boat. A 'baby'apprently, at 8 metres!