Dolphins

[Bruce Wallis]

Quite often when we're swimming in the sea a big shoal of small fish (sardines?) coming rushing inshore swimming all around the bathers & I think uh-oh what has driven them in? Being the eternal pessimist that I am I don't think Flipper I think JAWS!!!.

Almost certainly Sea Bass or Dorada

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Bruce they're smaller than that I've bought & eaten enought to know, I thought seabass tend to stay close to the base of the cliffs. Which is why we keep getting the fisherman falling off them.

The man who caught the whale in the film Free Willy used to catch the dolphins & killer whales for the zoomarines around the world he now campaigns constantly for the release & rehabilition of all captive dolphins & whales, he says there is never a time when it is right to keep these animals in these places. Given his knowledge about this I believe him. I have never been to a zoomarine & I never took my children to one, I never took them to a circus with animals either & can't believe that the UK still allows them, there are no captive dolphins in the UK. I do think, though I don't know, that with some animals in reserve parks it may be the only way that their species will survive & they sell tickets because this helps fund the care of the animals.

[scottishstacey]

Quite often when we're swimming in the sea a big shoal of small fish (sardines?) coming rushing inshore swimming all around the bathers & I think uh-oh what has driven them in? Being the eternal pessimist that I am I don't think Flipper I think JAWS!!!.

i would be the exact same lol, when i was in the sea in florida last year my bf's 9 year old nephew started shouting Shark to wind me up, i dont think ive ever got out the water so fast in my life lol!

[scottishstacey]

Yes that man called Rick O'barry did a program/film about the killing of dolphins, I think its " the cove "? some got killed and others sold to parks across the world. I didnt like seeing the dolphins doing shows in portugal but im not saying the trainers are cruel to them. I swam with dolphins at discovery cove last year and i wouldnt do it again, you could see the trainers really cared about them and were very knowledgeable but personally i didnt feel comfortable with it all. We went to seaworld but didnt go to see any of the shows, They do a lot for conservation and help injured animals and release them to the wild when possible.


Hope im lucky enough to see some wild dolphins when im over in september, you never know!