Earlier today I swam with dolphins. Dusky dolphins. For 45 minutes.
It is one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had and there's no way I can fully express it in words. I serenaded them with a whole range of my favourite songs (they have taste - they didn't like Take That or Phil Collins), they swam circles around me to test if I could keep up, holding eye contact with you the whole time, when the buoyant wet suit would let me sink enough to duck and dive with them, I could hear their dolphin chattering, and one even got so comfortable around me he took a dump right in front of me. Lovely.
Once out of the water, we were given time to watch the dolphins swim at the prow of the boat and do their acrobatics - jumps, somersaults, backflips, etc - and see their watermates such as sperm whale, fur seal and the royal albatross (which we hadn't been able to see flying in its 3m-wingspan glory on the Otago Peninsula).
Just out of this world.
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