09-02-2008, 05:39 PM
Sinister Wrote:Given the choice, I'd rather see them in the wild, too. When I went to Florida about 9 or 10 years ago with the idiot baseball player I was dating, I got to see them every morning from the deck of our condo while I had coffee. It was SO fucking cool watching them play.
There is a restaurant in Clearwater Fla called The Bank. It sits on a lagoon and when you go there for breakfast the same two dolphins come into the lagoon to play every morning. It was really cool.
We have black dolphins here and if the water is warm enough in central NJ you can see them off the beaches around noon time. If you boogie board out far enough to piss off the life guards, they will let you touch them and hang out with you.
The black dolphins also run along the wake and foam of the Cape May Ferry. The bubbles must give them some kind of 'scratching' sensation like getting pet. If they are in the area, they're following the boat!
They also are in the Virginias off Chincoteague Island (and Asateague) and you can swim out and they'll let you touch them too.
They're really freindly to humans when in the wild compared to those horrible pet the dolphin programs.