Re: Swimming with the dolphins
For me there's something special about interacting with animals, especially wild animals and I've had a few experiences, and that includes Dolphins.
Some of the things you see the wild dolphins do you'd be forgiven for thinking they've been trained.
If you are in the sea and you meet them they can be a bit rough because they are such masters of their environment but it's not intentional and it takes them seconds to realise that humans may be intelligent but they're not dolphins and they ease off!
We often saw them in the Arabian Gulf if we were working offshore but I've also seen them in the Mediterranean.
To witness them from vantage point of the deck of a crew boat at sea, working with tuna and porpoises to "harvest" flying fish is something I'll remember all my life - fantastic!
Sharks are the ones that amazed me though, and rays and the amazing cuttlefish!
Sharks are incredibly curious about everything and cuttlefish do the most amazing courtship "dance" you'll ever, EVER see!
I could tell you some stories but usually no b****r believes me.
stevmk2