Len wrote in
:

Magnificent experience... thanks for sharing.
I'm searching for this photo I must still have somewhere.
I got it from a dutch cruiser who now gives lectures with video
presentation.
During the day a whale came swimming next to the boat. This lasted
long enough for the sailor to climb his maststeps with a camera.
The photo shows the whale clearly turned about 45 degrees up with his
left side. You definitely would say he/she was looking up to what was
happening on deck or to that strange guy hanging in the mast.

Regards, Len.



We had another great experience with bottlenosed dolphins about 30 miles
offshore of Savannah, Georgia, I also remember. What show offs! This one
happened aboard "Lionheart", an Amel Sharki ketch and my friend's current
boat. One of the guys we sail with went up to the bow and leaned out over
the bowspirit holding out his hand. We were only going about 4 knots. The
dolphins must have been watching a video about Sea World's dolphins on TV
down in Davey Jones' Locker. They kept leaping up to his hand....some even
touching it by bumping into it. Then, this one smartassed little guy did
FIVE perfect out-of-the-water rolls, one right after the other, right
alongside the starboard side, from stern to bow swimming about twice our
speed. He would have been the star of the Sea World show! They were
perfect rolls with his belly sticking straight up just at the apogee of his
out-of-the-water jump. I'd never seen a group of them being so friendly.

Maybe they were escapees of some water circus show....(c;

Both the 50 KHz and 200 KHz sonars were running. Maybe they heard some
kind of mixing frequency that excited them into action...???

--
Larry