What makes a wake like that? April 18, 2010

As we were leaving Sanispac for another long day of sailing up to Santa Rosalia - the northern most point on our trip -we were coming around the headlands near Santo Domingo when Phil got concerned that we were going to run into a reef.  We could see all this white water in the not too far off distance and when you see white water, water has to be breaking over something. 

Phil ran below to get his binoculars and then he turned to me and said it's not a reef.  It's a pod of over 1,000 dolphins feeding.  Here are some pictures of what that looks like.

What is that out there?

The wall is getting closer

Here they come!

I can see some of them

Feeding frenzy - birds and dolphins

Playing in the water

There are even more coming

Along side the boat

Playing the the wake of the boat

The orange is Ryan's shirt as we stood on the bow of the boat to take pictures

Gliding along side

We captured one all by itself

Dolphins coming along side

Dolphin fun

This was to be the first of about 4 such pods that we ran into over the course of the next week between Bahia de Conception and Santa Rosalia.  The best display of acrobatics we saw was when we entered Punta Chivato - about a week away - stay tuned for more on that one. We discovered that there were several varieties of dolphins in the different pods we came across.  Kelly would sit with the mammals book for hours trying to figure out just which type of dolphins we had run across.  She got pretty good at identifying the species by the middle of May.

Stay tune for more on our adventures.