Spanish dolphins holiday (the final entry)

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Entry for September 26, 2006: Suddenly there are dolphins all over the place.

We were all up and making preparations for our final day.
Breakfast was gobbled down, and the Toftevaag was soon cruising out from behind the breakwater.
It was like a choreographed finale. The dolphin sightings started rolling in.
At one point I spent four hours piloting the boat as we followed a pod of Bottlenose dolphins as they fed.





The Mediterranean was as flat as a pond, and dolphin sightings were coming in every half hour or so.
It was a good day.




The sun was setting, and the volunteers were thinking about the booking we had at a Chinese restaurant back at the port. We were taking the couple that ran the expedition out for dinner to thank them for the experience.
I spotted a container ship off on the horizon. This patch of ocean has A LOT of shipping cruising though it.

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I’d never seen colours quite like these before. Reality looked like it was being pumped through an Eighties image synthesizer. Or maybe that god had got hold of Photoshop, and was playing around with all the adjustment sliders.

We sailed home into a brilliant sunset after a totally satisfying day.
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This is the end of this little series.
I’ve signed up for a whale watching expedition in August so hopefully I’ll have some more stories to tell.


LINKS
continuing-travel-blog
spanish-dolphins-holiday : 16th
spanish-dolphins-holiday : 18th
abandoned-boat : 19th
spanish-dolphins-holiday-still : 21st
spanish-dolphins-holiday-not-meny-more : 22nd
spanish-dolphins-holiday-almost-there : 23rd
spanish-dolphins-holiday : 24th
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