Hi all, so on the first Saturday in Mauritius a bunch of us went on a whale and dolphin safari. We all went out to sea in a speed boat and managed to swim with wild dolphins. Well, when I say swim 'with' dolphins, we kind of saw them under the water as they were swimming around...they weren't like flipper and floundering around next to us!
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| Beautiful harbour views |
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| Some of us ready to swim with the dolphins |
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| My first ever fishtail on myself!! <3 |
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| First glimpse of a sperm whale!! |
Then we went out to sea to 'track' sperm whales. I
didn't think we'd find any, but we found more than a DOZEN! I was
ASTOUNDED! They were amazing, so huge and we got super close to them!!!
The guide asked us if we wanted to snorkel by them - a chance in a
lifetime he said! So three of the boys on the boat jumped in with the
guide and snorkelled up to a whale and the whale dove underneath them,
it was incredible. I kind of wished I'd done it, and said so. Little did
I know that there were plenty of other whales around, so the guide
found two breathing on the top of the sea, and handed me a snorkel!
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| The boys (including my bf!) RIGHT NEXT to the whale! OMG! |
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| Dolphins <3 |
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| Me with a whale behind me! |
We jumped into the ocean and the two whales swam right underneath us - WOW!!! It was all over SO quickly but definitely a once in a lifetime experience and I was proud of myself for being the only girl in the group to do it!
Have you ever swam with whales or dolphins?
