A Day With The Dolphins

Unbelieveable!!! I never experienced that before .. let me call it one of the best days of my life!
Today I drove up to the northshore with two friends of mine (Ken and Jeri) - passed by Haleiwa and finally got a parking spot at Waimea Bay and wanted to go for a little snorkel tour..
Our favorite corner is the very left side of the bay - you can see turtles there quite often and a looot of fish .. The weather wasn't so good today so I left my camera on the beach for our first trip ... (if I would have known ..). As we stick our heads into the water we can hear the lifeguards yelling something about 'stay aways from the dolphins' - so we look up and see a whole herd coming up about 100 yards away from us .. about 40 to 50 dolphins. You can hear their voices under water - how they get louder the closer they come ... so we swam in that direction alwys sticking our head first over water looking for them jumping until we finally saw them underwater not far away from us ... It wasn't scary at all, it was wonderful, truly fascinating and fulfilling. For about 15min we were in the middle of the family, they swam over us, underneath and next to us .. they were cuddling and snuggling and having sex - never seen that before :)
They were playing in the bay for a long time and moved along the shore for about 3 hours, but never came that close again ...
Wow - spinner dolphins - love them!
After that we went again in the water - spottet turtles, fish and had fun playing with the camera!