Massive collection of dolphins
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Sun 23 Oct 2011 01:23
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32:48.8N 9:29.3W
Light winds. We have been motoring for 24
hours now to try and get as far south as possible before a depression to our
north points a strong wind in our face.
Andrea and Denise, who are doing the
"breadmaking" watch from 6am to 10am, had another good dolphin show
with the dolphins jumping over the sun as it rose. But the show of the day
had to be the massive collection of dolphins we saw at at midday.
Denise spotted a disturbance in the water and thought it might be a whale, so we
motored over to take a look and as we approached we saw the sea boiling with
the bodies of hundreds of dolphins. In one area they would be
cruising with dorsal fins showing like sharks, so numerous that the
fins looked like bristles on the sea. In another area they would be
darting around beneath the surface so that the sea was churning above
them. Everywhere you looked, for hundreds of yards around the boat, there
were pods of dolphins.
We couldn't see what might have brought so many
pods together at once. We didn't see them eating fish, and there were far
too many of them to be usefully fishing together anyway. Some kind of
migration? A social gathering? Something to google when we get
back online.
Bertie nearly caught a fish today, at sunset.
There was definitely a large fish jumping on the end of the line, but it broke
free taking the best lure with it.
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