Friday, May 29, 2009

Atlantis Day 4 - Dolphin Cay

Mom has been telling me for a month that I am going to get a chance to "hug a dolphin!" I have been executing this order faithfully by hugging all the stuffed dolphins in all the gift shops, but apparently this is not quite what Mom means. So, today, we are hugging real dolphins.

First, I don a wetsuit. Ok, ok, not willingly. But Mom insists.






Then we watch a short video (during which I dozed off, not a good omen for school, Dad says). We go into the shallow water for our interaction.





Well...ok...I know you don't want to hear this. But I get splashed by the dolphin with some salt water and I start to cry. So Dad takes me out of the water and I don't finish the interaction. I did not, in fact, "hug the dolphin." Maybe we'll try again later in the week. But the people there felt so bad for me that they let us get a private tour of the behind the scenes areas and their sea lion habitat.
This is where they prepare the fish and keep track on a board of how many pounds each dolphin eats.


Here are the sea lions, which are not on view to the public unless you schedule an interaction.


All in all, a fun day!

2 comments:

Grandma Betty said...

Salty water! If I were you, I would cry as hard as I could too. :-) What an experience you had. Oh, don't forget to tell us about how you survive a day at the hotel without the luggage.

Don Baechtel said...

Nice pictures. Too bad about troubles. Better luck next time.