Everyone loves dolphins, especially when you’re at sea for a long time. Change in scenery is rare when you’re crossing an ocean and any sort of mammal sighting is the event by which you define the day. Several times, while laying below deck in my bunk, I’d hear the cry,”DOLPHINS!!” and would jump up, grab the camera and get on deck for my money shot. But by the time I’d have the right lens in place, and was ready and powered up, the dolphins would be gone. I’d hear, “You should have been up here a second ago, it was amazing.” Or, I’d see them, get my camera, and then they’d be gone. Or, I’d have my camera and shoot 100s of shots of ‘something in the water splashing’. Seriously, action sports photographers should train by trying to get images of dolphins from a moving boat. It’s not easy. Well, finally after many, many attempts I got lucky– the coloring of this animal is other worldly. Theses dolphins are extremely adroit, very fast, and much smaller than typical dolphins we see in the Pacific. This one was probably about four feet. I named him PlastStoke.
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