Sweethearts on the Hill

          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 splas...

  One of the big highlights of our trip was having 24/7 access to a great fishing spot just outside our front door.  Sam and Richie would stand out there for hours on end baiting, casting, reeling, and hooking  (I have no idea what I'm talking about... but I think that sounds about right...) Charlie and Luke would do their drive by fishing... cast a few times and then jump back in the pool... The most exciting catch of the week was the barracuda that would hang around the dock...   Freaky freaky looking things ~ Charlie spotted another barracuda and pointed it out to Sam... Aaand, he caught it....! A couple days into the trip, the big boys went on a private fishing charter and caught all kinds of great fish Mangrove snapper, red snapper, grouper....  (which were all delicious, by the way!) And Charlie won the day with this goliath grouper, which clearly is endangered.. and monstrously insane! Through this trip, Sam has decided that he wants to spend a ...