The rain held off until just the end of the observation session, which Manon conducted with the MVA like a pro! Mr. French was on his best behavior and checked her out repeatedly while Gizmo continued her love affair with the left hydrophone. Gizmo also was very …
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Morning Gloom Yields to Dolphin Fun
We woke to a drizzle and heavy clouds.
But we had to see if the underwater visibility was better at Bailey’s Key. It was! Manon collected the underwater data today and turns out that Kami still has no concept of personal space. She was all over Manon, including swimming on top of her. This sequence was captured with the GoPro facing backward. In the featured photo, you see …
Travel Day! And, Happy New Year!
This was the smoothest travel day we have ever had to Roatan from Florida. Driving the 2 hrs with hardly any cars on the road at 7 AM. The Miami airport was calm and our TSA lines short! Even though our flight was delayed, we arrived on time with a smooth flight. It was actually short – less than 2 hrs long. The immigration line was the usual length but moving faster than usual! It was delightful to …
October 2024’s Last AM Observation Session!
Our day dawned with a slight orange hue to the sky … the wind was still up and the current stronger with less underwater visibility. Still, my team was ready and …
More Wind, but More Dolphins, too!
The morning dawned cloudy with a stiff breeze and a bit of a current in the water. But visibility was ok and I was able to collect a 30 min session of video data. I earned my breakfast with the current strength. There was lots of play – Gizmo with …
Windy Day followed by Fiesta Night!!
The day dawned windy with rain. No AM underwater data collection but lots of surface dolphin observations today. The guys did a second day of dives on the south side of Roatan. The day was …
Tug-o-war??
This morning saw an early data collection session so Don and Will could do the early morning wreck dive. The underwater visibility was a bit better than …
Great Object Play Behavior, Poor Underwater Vis
Our first session for observations and video collection went well overall, even though the underwater visibility was poor – 3 m at most and silty. Still, the dolphins …
Data, Data, Data!
Of course, we began the day with data collection … and it was relatively quiet (maybe even a tad bit boring) for surface observations and space use data collection. Kathleen agreed, saying the underwater views were similarly quiet. There were numerous …
Double Dolphin Dare
Today was packed full of dolphins from the morning data collection session to our dolphin encounter and, slightly delayed, swim with dolphins to a lengthy/double platform session where we learned a bit more of what dolphin training involves. It was HOT and …
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