Swimming with a Dolphin

This afternoon, just after we dropped the anchor at Calabash Bay, Doug, Laura, George and I went for a swim. We were all in the water when Doug noticed something swimming toward him. At first he thought it was a snorkeler but it was swimming too fast to be a snorkeler.  Then he thought it might be a shark or a ray, or maybe a dolphin. It swam under him and headed for Laura and me. He yelled over to us that a dolphin might be headed our way. We didn’t hear him but we did hear the dolphin blow air out of it’s blow hole behind us. I turned around and saw that it was within 6 feet of me!  It swam closer and I thought I might be able to touch it. I couldn’t quite touch it before it swam over to visit George. Then it swam away. It was the coolest experience we have had in the Bahamas. A dolphin visiting each one of us! 

We left Thompson Bay yesterday morning and motored up to Hog Cay. The water was so calm and clear that we could see everything on the bottom as we motored along in 12 feet of water. We even saw the fish swimming. We went for a swim and watched a green flash at sunset. Just after the sun set the whistling ducks that live on Hog Cay started to sing and fly. By this morning the anchorage was pretty rolly so we decided to dinghy north two miles to check out Calabash Bay. We walked along the beautiful white sand beach and then dinghied over to the the Cape Santa Maria Resort for a drink and a snack. There were a few boats anchored at Calabash Bay and we decided that none of them were rolling as much as we were at Hog Cay. So, once we returned to Breeze On we raised the anchor and moved here. Of course, now that we are here it seems as if we are rolling just as much as we were at Hog Cay. We aren’t complaining, though, because we got to swim with a dolphin.