http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgalvan/tags/dolphins/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:53:22 -0700 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:53:22 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm1.staticflickr.com/22/buddyicons/61658846@N00.jpg?1207328085#61658846@N00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgalvan/tags/dolphins/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgalvan/2399330341/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dgalvan/">davidagalvan</a> posted a video:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgalvan/2399330341/" title="KaikouraDolphinSwim - 18"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2073/2399330341_597b9c3945_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="KaikouraDolphinSwim - 18" /></a></p> <p>An underwater view of Dusky dolphins during my dolphin swim with &quot;Dolphin Encounters&quot;, a friendly and efficient eco-tourism company in Kaikoura, New Zealand. The Duskies are wild dolphins, not trained, and there is a pod of somewhere around 500 that lives in Kaikoura bay year round. The boats basically take you out on the waters, find the dolphins (they say their success rate is somewhere near 80%!), then position the boat in the path of the pod and tell the swimmers to get into the water. You are not supposed to try to touch the dolphins (they generally stayed at arms length from me), but you can make sounds and dive down to try and attract them. I found that diving down worked best, as every time I did so, a dolphin would swim toward me and circle me a few times, pinging me with its sonar and looking at me with its eye. This was an amazing experience!</p> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:53:22 -0700 2008-04-08T19:53:22-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (davidagalvan) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2399330341 KaikouraDolphinSwim - 18 <p>An underwater view of Dusky dolphins during my dolphin swim with &quot;Dolphin Encounters&quot;, a friendly and efficient eco-tourism company in Kaikoura, New Zealand. The Duskies are wild dolphins, not trained, and there is a pod of somewhere around 500 that lives in Kaikoura bay year round. The boats basically take you out on the waters, find the dolphins (they say their success rate is somewhere near 80%!), then position the boat in the path of the pod and tell the swimmers to get into the water. You are not supposed to try to touch the dolphins (they generally stayed at arms length from me), but you can make sounds and dive down to try and attract them. I found that diving down worked best, as every time I did so, a dolphin would swim toward me and circle me a few times, pinging me with its sonar and looking at me with its eye. This was an amazing experience!</p> davidagalvan ocean travel newzealand vacation movie mammal video marine dolphin dolphins mammals kaikoura dusky http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgalvan/2400168178/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/dgalvan/">davidagalvan</a> posted a video:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgalvan/2400168178/" title="KaikouraDolphinSwim - 62"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2279/2400168178_82c362ea75_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="KaikouraDolphinSwim - 62" /></a></p> <p>An underwater view of Dusky dolphins during my dolphin swim with &quot;Dolphin Encounters&quot;, a friendly and efficient eco-tourism company in Kaikoura, New Zealand. The Duskies are wild dolphins, not trained, and there is a pod of somewhere around 500 that lives in Kaikoura bay year round. The boats basically take you out on the waters, find the dolphins (they say their success rate is somewhere near 80%!), then position the boat in the path of the pod and tell the swimmers to get into the water. You are not supposed to try to touch the dolphins (they generally stayed at arms length from me), but you can make sounds and dive down to try and attract them. I found that diving down worked best, as every time I did so, a dolphin would swim toward me and circle me a few times, pinging me with its sonar and looking at me with its eye. This was an amazing experience!</p> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:55:49 -0700 2008-04-08T19:55:49-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (davidagalvan) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/2400168178 KaikouraDolphinSwim - 62 <p>An underwater view of Dusky dolphins during my dolphin swim with &quot;Dolphin Encounters&quot;, a friendly and efficient eco-tourism company in Kaikoura, New Zealand. The Duskies are wild dolphins, not trained, and there is a pod of somewhere around 500 that lives in Kaikoura bay year round. The boats basically take you out on the waters, find the dolphins (they say their success rate is somewhere near 80%!), then position the boat in the path of the pod and tell the swimmers to get into the water. You are not supposed to try to touch the dolphins (they generally stayed at arms length from me), but you can make sounds and dive down to try and attract them. I found that diving down worked best, as every time I did so, a dolphin would swim toward me and circle me a few times, pinging me with its sonar and looking at me with its eye. This was an amazing experience!</p> davidagalvan travel newzealand vacation animal animals swim movie mammal video snorkel dolphin dolphins mammals kaikoura dusky http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en