‘JUMPING FOR JOY’: CHEERFUL DOLPHINS IN ABACO WATERS
To be totally accurate, one or two of these photographs may have be take from the BMMRO research vessel at some point during an expedition to Andros. But since the boat set off from and returned to Abaco, with an Abaconian team on board, I have stretched a point with the title…
It would be hard to view a dolphin leap as high as this (top photo) as anything other than an expression of pure enjoyment. Difficult to tell the exact height, but it’s fairly spectacular. Dolphins always seem to be looking, or acting, happy. Here are a few more, a mix of bottlenose and spotted dolphins, to spread some cheer…
This dolphin was one of a large pod of 28 seen on a recent BMMRO research trip
Time to get my… erm… paintbox out
Photo credits: Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation BMMRO
In an earlier post I name-checked BMMRO intern Oscar Ward’s blog SeventyPercentBlue. You can read Oscar’s account of his continuing adventures HERE
ROLLING HARBOUR ABACO 
Beautiful!
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And I’m pretty sure you’d crack a smile if you saw a dolphin, Lucy. Or a whale. I reckon the researchers do too, and they get to see them most days… RH
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At the risk of being inarticulate, oh wow!
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No risk, “oh wow” is in fact very articulate. Says it all very economically in a mere 5 letters. The other might be ‘Oh they’re just so… kind of, oh I don’t know, they look so… they make me feel sort of…’ and so on. RH
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Rofl, how right you are!
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Fabulous!!!
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Fantastic aren’t they. I wonder if anyone has ever seen a dolphin and not smiled…? 😎
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Lovely photos! We spotted dolphins in Green Turtle Cay’s Black Sound when we were there this past May. They’re such beautiful creatures.
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Hi Amanda! As I’ve just commented to someone else, I wonder if anyone has ever seen a dolphin and not smiled…? 😎
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Excellent question. I’d guess not. Funny you posted about dolphins, as I’m just working on a post for my own blog about two dolphins we spotted in GTC’s Black Sound. It made our whole day to see them. 🙂
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I’ll watch out for that…!
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