This was a very cool critter encounter!

            This was a very cool critter encounter!

While staying at Sanibel Island over fall break we took a fishing trip. As we cut across the bay, our guide decided to see if he could get the dolphins to play in our wake of our boat. After spotting a pod we slowed down and circled around. Without warning they started riding the waves like a kid on a boogey board!

Their leaps of joy were fast and proved to be more than a little difficult to photograph. I stood about mid-ship (ok, boat) and attempted to photograph every leap, so excited yet quietly praying for that perfect shot. By the time I could swing the lens and focus, many times their heads were already back in the water. 

Then something caught my eye, one had accelerated ahead of the wake and was swimming right next to me just under the waters surface. Only 4-5 feet away, it swam on its side so it could look directly at me with its right eye. I froze for just a moment as the experience, not the photo mattered more.

As I lifted my camera to my eye it rolled quickly to its other side, glanced quickly with its left eye and with no noticeable effort, cut out away from our boat as if it had been shot out of a cannon.

God and His creations continue to bless me so!

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