It doesn't happen too often, but sometimes they do show up in shallow anchorages - like they did last night. Just when we were preparing for dinner in the cockpit and the sun was just about to go down behind the hills we spotted a pod of maybe 6-10 dolphins slowly swimming around our boat. Back and forth. They moved soooo sloooowly, up and down below the surface, sometimes swimming on their back showing their white bellies while observing us from underneath the water. We could hear them breathing through their blowholes and communicating to each other with their characteristic whistles. It was so relaxing hearing them and seeing them playing around us and as a great coincidence we had a chill Moby track softly sounding from the ipod speakers as they approached and there was a moment of maybe 2-3 minutes when everything was just perfect. Such an amazing serene symmetry with the nature, the easy evening breeze, the sunset, the dolphins moving around us in rhythm to the music... Magical and surreal. Those are the moments you feel like crying out your gratitude to the nature and you feel utterly blessed for being able to take part of the greatness so closely. Like so many times before, the dolphins got us speechless for many minutes after they were gone. Speechless and mesmerized. /T
