Days Dreams are Made of

        
Swimming with dolphins has forever been on my list of experiences I want to have...  I was very happy to find that our options in the Keys had much more of a rescue and educate mission as opposed to a carnival entertainment kind of feel...
The place where we went was Dolphin Plus Marine Mammal Responder (DPMMR)...  and it honestly surpassed all my expectations.





Everyone started off getting to ride solo with one of the dolphins.  They would carefully select which dolphin to send to each of us based on their mood, playfulness, size, and overall personality..  They were so dang cool to hang out with.


Two dolphins had come to take me on this ride... but they were a little out of sync... so I was being dragged by one of them with just one arm. You can kind of tell in this picture below that I had moved over to ride just one dolphin, and his buddy was swimming along side us 😊



Here we are playing a little game of splashing water... we started off by splashing them... then they returned the gesture


We were directing them to jump out of the water and wave to us... so cool

Love these pictures with all the smiles

Here, we had a boogie board in front of us and the dolphins would come behind and push our feet to guide us across the water







And my favorite... just touching the dolphins.. they are so silky smooth...  really just beautiful 💗💗💗

 

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