Fun With a Dolphin

Wednesday was a beautiful day for boating.  

The water was calm and the clouds beautiful!

 All of a sudden I heard a loud splash, looked around to see

 a big smile from a dolphin. :)

That dolphin fun made our day on the water complete.

Yesterday evening we went to the Lighthouse Beach.  The wind was pretty strong and there were kite boarders who had been making good use of it.

The tide was out and water had been trapped in a long tidal pool.  I looked around in that for a while, there were some shells, but didn't find any that interested me.

There were a lot of small shells that the high tide had left behind.  I looked through those for a while, only sticking a couple of them in my pocket.  It was just pleasant spending time on the beach.

Soaking up the Sun Sunday

I still have no voice today and generally feel crappy. Thought some sunshine might be good medicine. Met friends at the beach, all the way at the end of West Gulf Drive near Resident Access 7. We were hoping that there wouldn't be as much red drift algae a little further west. There was much less than I saw yesterday and no bad smell. There were some parts of this area that had algae and some places where there was hardly any.





Three of us just sat in our beach chairs relaxing. It was sunny and 79 degrees, a little too hot for me to just lay back in my chair and bake, the cool breeze helped though.

The other two looked for shells as they walked along the beach, but they came back with less than a handful of very small ones.

We had plenty of activity to watch; like four or five dolphins, swimming and jumping right in front of us very close to shore, for quite a while. One of them was very small. I think they were circling around fish to pick out their dinner entree, because every now and then a fish would jump up. I sat there watching them for quite a while and then decided to try a video and see if it would be clear enough to see them. Three kids were splashing around in the water, just a few feet from the shore, and were really surprised to see dolphins coming so close to them. There was a pelican that flew past us, with a 3 or 4 foot long piece of fishing line hanging from it. The end of the line had a leader with a large weight on it. It's sad, because most likely the poor bird will eventually get the line caught around something and then won't be able to move. Hopefully it will come off somehow.

Monday Chill

There was definitely a chill in the air today. The high temperature only reached 58. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even want to go outside and didn't, until evening to go off island for some grocery shopping. On the way over the causeway, I snapped these photos out of the window. After I saw that beautiful sky, I wished I had gone out earlier to watch the sunset.

I also added one more video from the Sanibel Thriller tour, that has the little, young dolphin in it.