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Port Isabel, Texas. This place was in pretty rough shape when I photographed it. I'm wondering what it'll look like tomorrow..:( Several of you reached out, and I think you for that. The weather man says we'll have 50 mile and hour winds and about 12 inches of rain. I live close to a creek that floods easily. So, I'm a little worried. We've already had some rain and wind.
Capturing a dolphin in mid-jump was very challenging, but they gave me the opportunity when they kept racing alongside the boat playfully. I set the zoom lens to 100mm (as little as possible) to increase the field of view. I then tried timing a series of bursts, anticipating when they would jump. A little luck and a little skill combined to give me this awesome image. The spray off the boat, visible as white dots in the lower right, only added to the feeling of the image. Atlantic Ocean, about 30 miles west of Cape Town, South Africa
Porpoising Dolphin ~ Gulf of Mexico ~ Clearwater Beach, Florida
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 250, f/8.0, 44mm, 1/2000s
Dolphin Beach can usually be spotted from a fair distance away by the colourful kites that are being flown above it.
Long-beaked common dolphins are gregarious and are often seen ‘porpoising' at the water surface, breaching and bow-riding for extended periods of time. They are also highly vocal and like the short-beaked common dolphin, can be heard whistling to each other when they are above the surface of the water. They typically travel in large social groups numbering between 10 and 50 dolphins.
Another LE shot of the 'Dolphins' at Lepe beach, UK
These are the remnants of the D-day embarkation piers and always make for an interesting subject
This was also one of my first tries with the ND10 filter for some LE
Two Common Dolphins, of the Cornish Coast at Padstow
The common dolphin is the name given to two species (and possibly a third) of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus.
Prior to the mid-1990s, most taxonomists only recognised one species in this genus, the common dolphin Delphinus delphis. Modern cetologists usually recognise two species — the short-beaked common dolphin, which retains the systematic name Delphinus delphis, and the long-beaked common dolphin Delphinus capensis.
The common dolphin is not the dolphin of popular imagination despite its name; that distinction belongs to the bottlenose dolphin due to its widespread use in marine parks and its appearance in the television series Flipper.However, this dolphin was the most frequently represented in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
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In dophin jumping skill I think this one scored close to a 10! We had watched a sperm whale catching its breath after a deep dive for 45 minutes then found a dolphin school. Seen from a Whale Watch boat off Kaikoura, a small town on the East coast in the north of NZ's South Island.
We are on holiday on our way to spend time with family. Internet time is limited but I will try to visit some friends.
Seen from the shore at Richardson Beach Park, Kalanianaole Ave, Hilo, Island of Hawaii [Big Island], Hawaii.
Info: A group of dolphins is called a pod. A pod usually is formed of around 12 dolphins, and it is the usual social group of dolphins. > www.dolphins-world.com/what-is-a-group-of-dolphins-called/
The dolphin breached the water with a corkscrew twist to give additional height. It reached about 5m clear of the water, just avoiding a belly flop on landing! All this with the Ceredigion coastline in the background. A fabulous encounter...
We saw several large pods of dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay last week. Composite of dolphins from the bay and the dock area.
A successful whale watching trip from Kaikoura ended with an exciting performance by the Dusky Dolphins.
Common Dolphins are usually uncommon in Monterey Bay but this is an El Niño year with warmer waters than usual, and there are thousands of them further north than usual. This is the rarer oceanic form that used to be known as Long-beaked Common Dolphin but DNA studies of the various populations have shown that they are not a genetically distinct species, but that each long-beaked population is most closely related to their nearest population of Short-beaked Common Dolphins. I thought that the head of this leaping Dolphin stood out well against the splash of a recently-dived Dolphin.
Off of the Napali Coast, Kauai, HI.
Explored: July 23, 2010
Daily Ray of Hope selection, August 4, 2010
The Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world. It is famous for its acrobatic displays in which they spin longitudinally along their axis as they leap through the air.
Common Dolphins (Delphinus delphis) were indeed a common sight on our 9 day cruise around the Hebrides. On a number of occasions we spotted them distantly and they headed straight for our boat in order to bow-ride. For some reason they seem to enjoy swimming on the pressure wave in front of boats, even though our boat only travelled at a stately 8 knots. They were very difficult to photograph well when they were bow-riding as you were looking straight down on them, but it was a great experience as they were so close I could hear them making a wonderful clicking noise like you hear in Flipper films. Although Flipper was a Bottlenose Dolphin so presumably had a different sound.
Paraphrased from wikipedia:
The Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis) is a species of bottlenose dolphin found in parts of Victoria, Australia. It was recognised as a species only in 2011. By size, the Burrunan dolphin is between the other two species of bottlenose dolphin There are only two resident populations of the Burrunan dolphin; one in Port Phillip and these ones from the Gippsland Lakes. Their combined population has been estimated as about 150 dolphins (100 in Port Phillip and 50 in Gippsland).
The dolphin's common name, Burrunan, is an Aboriginal name in the Boonwurrung, Woiwurrung and Taungurung languages, meaning "large sea fish of the porpoise kind".