Inhale...
The circle of life... celebrating the love of life, the tender mysteries of life, our dolphin family gifting us, and the light ever present spirit of our recently departed dolphin child Claudia.
So many emotions, so much love... peace
Exhale...
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When our dolphin family has blessed us royally, we like to take a day to play with our stingray and sharky family...
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Inhale...
Fourty dolphins literally making gentle love to our guests and crew for hours this afternoon.
The peace and serenity of this week has been a blessing. The gifts from mother nature, many.
Many thanks to Katja and Casper for putting together this simple short video.
We have so much footage, both video and stills from today, yet, to me, this captures the simple essence of the wonders that we are blessed to enjoy in this special place...
Exhale, with love...
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Fourty of our wild dolphin family literally making love to our guests for over 3 hours on our last day. With the weather gods gifting us the best weather of the season so far... we celebrated hours of dolphin magic each every day except on Wednesday when everyone voted to take the day and play with our stingray family, our shark buddies and a beautiful reef area that most have never experienced. One of our guests took me to the side and emotionally shared that this day was one of the top 5 best days in his life... yes, it was a good week with wonderful people... thank you.
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This is today... blessed again... we're crossing the Grand Bahama Channel right now, finishing off another special week. A unique setting sun behind a cloudy horizon.
We've changed up our dolphin grounds a giving us time in a very special place all by our lonesome with amazing dolphin interactions.
The weather has calmed down for a bit, and now it is flat calm. There's still blue in the sky with clouds streaking along in symphony with the horizon.
Puppy Taino is worn out from all the dolphin interactions this week. He puts in the miles on deck, checking to see that all his wet friends showed up... it's a mutual love affair between his dolphin friends and himself.
Please excuse the photos. We have a new 360 camera and are still learning its uniqueness. It's definitely fun to play with.
A beautiful evening to you.
G
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This is today... blessed again... we're crossing the Grand Bahama Channel right now, finishing off another special week. A unique setting sun behind a cloudy horizon.
We've changed up our dolphin grounds a giving us time in a very special place all by our lonesome with amazing dolphin interactions.
The weather has calmed down for a bit, and now it is flat calm. There's still blue in the sky with clouds streaking along in symphony with the horizon.
Puppy Taino is worn out from all the dolphin interactions this week. He puts in the miles on deck, checking to see that all his wet friends showed up... it's a mutual love affair between his dolphin friends and himself.
Please excuse the photos. We have a new 360 camera and are still learning its uniqueness. It's definitely fun to play with.
A beautiful evening to you.
G
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There is magic in the air and down below, sometimes when you least expect it. ...
Just open your heart and mind and see what transpires...
Thank you for the video Meloni and for joining us last week...
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A taste from last week, photos taken by our guests. Mother Nature gifted us about everything that she had from storms to calm. Turtles, dolphins, beautiful beach time shared with wonderful people!!
My bad not having any underwater shots that would have been some of our best ever. We have a new 360 degree camera that I am slowly understanding. When the red light is on its recording, when the green light is on its not... my simple mind had that a bit backwards in the beginning and missed some special moments... never again :-) ...
Thankful for the blessings and experiences that we shared together.
Peace
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Our Swedish mermaid Mimmi is back on board for most of this summer season...
Mimmi first joined us with her mom for her 18th birthday and has been returning on her own since every four or five years to her dolphin family.
A while back, I posted that one of our chefs would not be returning, and Mimmi contacted me immediately to ask for the job...
Here again, 17 or so years later it is a treat to have her back on board as part of our family crew. Her cooking is another very good bonus...
She is also our photographer/videographer, editor, our in water safety person, and just a joy to have on board. As many of you know!!
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We love going in reverse. The dolphins love it, as do our guests... we always check in with our wild dolphin family to make sure that our joining them in the water is what they wish also. Their pretty clear about what is best for them at any moment. It's a good thing. Until their ready for us, we enjoy spending time with each other like this.
Thanking so many of you for the wonderful response to the recent release of our 2024 wild dolphin swim schedule...
I'm hoping this Sunday is treating you as well as it is here... all the best and looking forward. With love, G
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We love going in reverse. The dolphins love it, as do our guests... we always check in with our wild dolphin family to make sure that our joining them in the water is what they wish also. Their pretty clear about what is best for them at any moment. It's a good thing. Until their ready for us, we enjoy spending time with each other like this.
Thanking so many of you for the wonderful response to the recent release of our 2024 wild dolphin swim schedule...
I'm hoping this Sunday is treating you as well as it is here... all the best and looking forward. With love, G
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Some days are just perfect...
Waking up, walking puppy Taino on the beach as the sun comes up behind our anchored custom catamaran Indigo Dreams.
Heading out from our anchorage, the ocean is completely flat calm, hardly able to differentiate the horizon, being water or sky...
We headed into the Indigo blue waters of the Gulfstream to play in her comfortable, all-encompassing love... Jorge and I were also able to do some line dives down to 125 ft and back for a bit. Being able to sink slowly down the line surrounded in crystal clear deep blue depths, sun rays streaming down into the 1000 ft abyss. Holding onto the line at 125 ft for a restful meditation moment, looking up, being able to see everyone floating above with an incredible billowing lightly clouded blue sky above.
It is, for me, most times difficult to come back, sinking down in the complete silence is very tempting...
Leaving the Gulfstream we head back into the Bahama Banks to visit with our wild dolphin family.
A couple of hours later, we were surrounded by a couple of small pods of our spotted dolphin family feeding and just drifted with them until they were ready to spend some time together.
We wound up with around 30 dolphins in three separate pods that spent several hours rotating in and out with us. The waters were still crystal clear and flat calm, gifting us an amazingly wonderful day. Including being visited by three different medium-sized tiger sharks who found us interesting enough to come and go at different times. Incredibly beautiful animals and a joy to have join us.
We actually added a day to this week as our guests all flew out a couple of day later, so we gifted to them, and it seemed to turn out well.
A special thanks to Jorge, who was kind enough to be sharing his freediving and photo expertise with all of us. Thank you for the videos and stills from this past week migo.
Life is good...
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Up to 40 of our wild dolphin family spending several hours with us both in and out of the water...
We spent the morning with our wild stingray family, hugging and loving with them then slowly moved our to the dolphin grounds to spend the rest of the afternoon with our wild dolphin family.
A very surreal calm and clear day on the water.
Feeling so blessed and thankful.
Big hugs and love to you... :-)
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. I apologize for the quality of this video. I somehow erased all the good stuff and this was all I was left with...
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Over 50 pantropical spotted dolphins playing with us for over an hour while crossing the Northwest Providence Channel heading back to Grand Bahama, a cloudy sunset going down to the side of us... added to the over 20 spotted dolphins who blessed us with their presence at 9 in the morning...
And puppy Taino keeping an energetic eye on all of us.
Feeling thankful...
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A sweet birthday gift, fifty Pantropical Spotted Dolphins crusing, jumping, and playing in our bows for quite a while while we are moving through some swells in the Northwest Providence Channel just now on our way to our Bimini wild dolphin grounds for this weeks upcoming wild dolphin swims
Feeling blessed and thankful...
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Baby dolphin nursing from its mother's mammary glands.
We see this quite often, but this is the best video we have been able to take of it.
One of our guests, Ni'ia Koole, a professional photographer from Switzerland and Hawaii, is joining us for most of June.
This was a stellar week with our wild dolphin family and we're blessed to be able to share it with you.
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What does your weekly dolphin swim schedule look like? It's a question that I'm asked almost daily. It's very flexible depending on the weather, the dolphins, and our guests.
We start on Grand Bahama around noon on Sundays get together and have lunch on board. We have our introduction, safety, and snorkeling get together. Then we go to a beautiful reef that has the most friendly turtles, the largest artificial reef in the bahamas and a aquarium like real reef where we take all the time necessary to check out everyone's swimming and snorkeling abilities and help tweak whatever you might need to feel comfortable and safe during your week here.
We have our native dinner out on this evening at a floating restaurant that has great waterfront dining and live music outside.
After dinner, we board Indigo Dreams for the evening passage under the usually beautiful starry sky to the dolphin grounds off Bimini.
Around breakfast, we are on the dolphin grounds.
The weather this week could not be more perfect, around 10 in the morning we spent the next few hours in the crystal clear waters with around 25 of our wild spotted dolphin family. We then went into the Indigo blue waters of the Gulf Stream and played with our freediving skills until our late lunch was ready. We had two more interactions in the afternoon with our bottlenose friends, then anchored in one of our favorite coves for the night.
The sunset was not disappointing, and waking up to a female spotted dolphin and her baby passing just off the side of the boat was a special way to start today.
Around 11 this morning, We came onto a pod of 6 spotted dolphins. Because we liveaboard and are starting our days around eight in the morning, we have few time constraints so we just hang with our dolphin family and see what they would like to do... the 6 dolphins turned into 35. Our guests who are from Switzerland, Belgium and the US were blessed with over 5 hours of wet dolphin love.
As we made our way to our evening ancho
Just Breathe... A little piece of an encounter for myself with our wild dolphin family on our last week... there would have been a lot more with our guests receiving some amazing dolphin love but I pushed the wrong button on the video camera, over and over... A big ooops, so sorry Victoria... You couldn't see her through all the dolphins loving on her.
Another special day... feeling so blessed and thankful.
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Our 2023 Wild Dolphin Swim Season Dates... and apologies to you.
Below are our 2023 dolphin swim dates.This past season turned out to be a nice segue back into non covid travel. By April last year all of the 2022 summer trips that we wished to be booked, were. We usually operate just over a 50% return rate. This past season it was just short of 80%, it was such a blessing to be with everyone again. Thank you!
Many of our guests join us for two weeks at a time and have asked for the possibility of running some longer dolphin weeks. We now offer a few longer dolphin swim weeks for those of you who might be interested in them.
In May of last season we lost our 5 yr old Shepard puppy Raven to cancer. I've found that I didn't handle his loss very well, By August I realized that I hadn't posted our usual once a week photos and stories or answered most texts and emails, for three months. I let a lot of you down and I'm so sorry. Tomorrow starts the returning of a few hundred emails and texts. The phone is the best way to communicate with us. 772 284 0144
There is a price increase this season for the first time in many years. The Bahamian government has just implemented a 10 percent tax on each of our guests plus the normal 4 percent and our fuel and food supplies have just about doubled. Our old pricing will be valid thru the mini winter season. All pricing includes all taxes.
We are still the most affordable wild dolphin swim in the Bahamas and the most intimate dolphin swim facilitating only 6 guests. It doesn't get any more personal than this. For 40 years now, still easily the most and longest eco oriented wild dolphin encounters, as we live on the dolphin grounds. Starting around 7 in the morning and sometimes until midnight when we are able to facilitate our night dolphin swims... instead of visiting just for a few hours in the afternoons as all the other dolphin experiences do.
We feel blessed that we live in this very special place and look forward to sharing it
Our dolphin escort...
Four incredible bottlenose dolphins that joined us for several hours while i was standing watch crossing the Gulf Stream from the States back to the Bahamas on my other brother from a different mother, Gary's, 65ft rescue trawler. Bringing the last of the supplies for our incoming wild dolphin swim season, diapers and formula for Gary's very new son Mako who was born just a couple of days after we arrived. Gary has also worked closely with the island humane society and we were able to bring with us over 1000 lbs of dog and cat food for the island rescues along with the many crates and kennels needed to help ship puppy and cat rescues to the states for adoption... such amazingly wonderful work by dedicated big hearted people to help give the island "Potcakes" as the natives pups are called loving homes in the states...
It was a great trip to the states but its always the best to arrive back here in the womb of our island home where Mother Nature welcomed us with lighter breezes, calmer waters and an escort from our wild dolphin family...
So looking forward to our upcoming dolphin swim season just around the corner.... peace.
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