Saturday morning, we hopped in the car at 6:40 for a half-hour drive to Tin Can Bay. The attraction: wild dolphins who appear daily at a little patch of sand to meet with and eat fish from human visitors. The alpha male dolphin, Mystique, was there with one of the females from his pod. They hung out with the 50 or so human visitors for about an hour before the feeding began. The operation was managed by several handlers (two in the water, one providing history and guidelines with a microphone, one selling fish). The dolphins seemed to be especially attracted to children. After eating (one fish from each of about 2 dozen people who had bought them), the dolphins stayed around for another 15 minutes before heading off back into the bay. Apparently, this interspecies exchange happens almost every day and the history of the interaction dates back more than a half century (and through three dolphin generations)!
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