KIm (Qmomma) have you really ???

[kimmee]

Have you really gotten to swim with the dolphins?? What's it like ? do they come up to you?? Do they "talk" with you?? They are supposed to be so wonderful with Children - what an experience for your son!! If you have can you share all about it?? I saw them in Maui but I didn't get to get that close to them (and of course at sea world in Cali but those are tame) I think dolphins and whales are just incredible...

[guest2]

Hey Kimmee,
I'm not Kim but I have swam with dolphins! Theya re wonderful, smart and very curious creatures. They also a very social and love to play. Their skin is like a smooth wetsuit and the one that I spent time with loved to be petted and rubbed.

[QuilterMom]

Nope, I just put that there being silly, but it is on my wish list! I am holding off until ds is old enough so we can do it as a family (many places have specific age requirements). I really want to go to the Keys (to Marathon) to the facility there. We could easily go to Discovery Cove at Sea World, but that's not the experience I want. Of course, when we do go to Sea World you can find me right by the dolphin tank (in the park) practically all day. The last time we were there a dolphin name Lilly would hang out by us every time she saw us (she loved ds). You can touch and feed them there, but not get in the water with them.

They don't get too close to shore here in the ocean, but we've been just a foot away from them on some of the river docks here. Believe me, I've been tempted more than once to just jump right on in.

[kimmee]

I know that if you have toys out in the ocean like a beach ball or a ring that they will play with it - I think thats pretty clever - I saw some guys playing way out with a few once off the coast in San Diego. Debbie - I am so jealous - do they seem really big when you are in the water with them?

[QuilterMom]

I'm not Debbie , but just from being so close to them before, yes they are huge - much larger than most people would imagine.

[MarshHen]

Several years ago while working on Jekyll Island here on the coast, I signed up to work on the dolphin watch outings. Having lived on the east coast all of my life, seeing dolphins almost everyday was something I had grown custom too. I gained so much respect for them though after watching them up close everyday. At certain times during the day when the tides were receding in the tidal marshes, we would find small schools of dolphin "Mudding." We watched as two to three dolphins would swim together in line onto the muddy banks of the marsh, pushing the small fish and shrimp up onto the banks where they would eat their fill before sliding back into the water. They would continue this until they had had their fill and then swim back out into the ocean. Sometimes, we would find a single dolphin mudding by itself, but mostly they did it in groups. It was especially exciting watching the young dolphins trying it for the first time. LOL