Dolphins and Their Feeding Time

January 8, 2023  
Seeing dolphins in the La Paz harbour is almost a daily sighting.  Usually they are just passing by, although one time when I was pulling Jason on the foil board, back when he was first learning, they seemed very interested in what we were doing.  They hung around us for a while, swimming along behind Jason several times. 
It is too bad that they have not been around recently while I was towing Jason as they would probably porpoise along with him now that he is much better at a sustained ride on the board. 
One time, as we were enjoying some relaxing time in the cockpit, we saw the dolphins coming our way.  They came right around our boat, so we went out on deck to watch them.  They were feeding, and they appeared to be using our boat to help corral the fish.  They would swim off towards the mangroves and then return chasing a school of fish.  We could see into the water from the deck of our boat and we watched as the dolphins herded the fish toward us.  Often a dolphin would flip upside down onto its back and then appear to knock a fish upwards into the air and catch it before it landed in the water again.  When they got to our boat they would speed up, snapping up fish as they passed incredibly close to our hull, and then they would surface on the other side.  They were very neat to watch from such a perfect vantage point.  We would have liked to have gotten into the water with them and to watch their activity from the water, but the current was close to maximum, ripping past our hull, so we remained on deck to watch the show. 
On December 18, 2022 when we brought Falcon home to the boat for the first time, the dolphins were there to welcome him home.   
More recently we have also seen a turtle a couple of times, but that is not a common sighting within the harbour. 
 
 
 

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