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Akaroa: Swimming with Dolphins
Posted by Squiffy on February 19th, 2009
It’s rare that you get the opportunity to swim with dolphins in the wild. Many places around the world offer swimming with dolphins experiences, but these are usually with dolphins in captivity. Whilst we did get to see the creatures very close-up in the wild at Monkey Mia, we weren’t allowed to go in the water with them. So we jumped at the chance to swim with wild Hector dolphins in Akaroa, despite the chilly water.
A small boat transported 10 of us out into the harbour and we waited patiently for the dolphins to come and visit us. When a pod showed an interest, we jumped somewhat reluctantly into the cold and slightly choppy water. But as you’d imagine, it was an amazing experience, better than I’d expected, because we had a number of dolphins splashing around us and swimming past within touching distance. They seemed to enjoy playing with us as much as we did with them, and they responded well to our underwater (via snorkel) calls and singing. Being so fast, they were difficult to photograph but we got a couple of snaps of (parts of) them underwater, just to show you how close they came – no competition winners I’m afraid.
Back on board we were treated to a hot chocolate to warm up and looked over the official photographer’s snaps. Of course we succumbed and bought one; we need some evidence to ‘show the future grandkids’.
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