From Wim on the stormy ocean: This morning we headed out onto a very choppy sea with a northeasterly wind blowing strongly. We headed north into the wind and almost immediately found ourselves surrounded by a massive pod of dolphins. There were dolphins as far as the eye could see in all directions, with whales inbetween. We jumped into the water and spent ages with the frolicking, playful dolphins who swam and jumped around and past us in their hundreds - no, I think it was thousands! There was a constant stream, allowing us to take hundreds of magnificent photographs both above and under water. The dolphins found us quite interesting and many swam right up to us, giving us eye to eye contact again and again. After we clambered back onto the boat and set off again, we captured some wonderful seabird images against the backdrop of the restless...
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From Wim on the stormy ocean: This morning we headed out onto a very choppy sea with a northeasterly wind blowing strongly. We headed north into the wind and almost immediately found ourselves surrounded by a massive pod of dolphins. There were dolphins as far as the eye could see in all directions, with whales inbetween. We jumped into the water and spent ages with the frolicking, playful dolphins who swam and jumped around and past us in their hundreds - no, I think it was thousands! There was a constant stream, allowing us to take hundreds of magnificent photographs both above and under water. The dolphins found us quite interesting and many swam right up to us, giving us eye to eye contact again and again. After we clambered back onto the boat and set off again, we captured some wonderful seabird images against the backdrop of the restless...
Wim reports: This morning we were out on the ocean again shortly after sunrise, and before long we encountered a massive pod of Common Dolphin. This was very exciting for us. The Common Dolphins are usually an indication that sardines are in the vicinity. They follow the sardines, then isolate and herd thousands of the fish, forming a bait ball which they then feed on. When we caught up with the pod, we could see dolphins for hundreds of meters in all directions. This gave us a fabulous opportunity to take photographs of them jumping, breaching, splashing, and enjoying themselves. They were moving too rapidly for us to dive for underwater shots. We followed them until they swam away quite suddenly, leaving us with excellent photographs of the encounter. We were not alone for long as we found a large pod of Bottlenose Dolphins fairly close to the shore. This...
From Ben: We found ourselves out on the ocean early this morning starting to scout for the evidence of the sardine run. Before long we realised that we were in the middle of a huge pod of Bottlenose dolphins ... about 60 of these playful, graceful creatures were cavorting in the early morning. We followed them for hours as they delighted us by leaping in unison in groups of 4 or 5 and sometimes singly into the air, creating beautiful photographic opportunities which we capitalised on. We kept the dolphins company, snapping away with our cameras until they turned east toward the deeper ocean. As it was lunch time we stopped for our midday meal. Shortly after returning to the sea after lunch we found a second pod of dolphins feeding on a massive shoal of Redeye fish. We could see the glittering silver flashes of the fish scales through...