Chip the Dolphin By:Jessie
Right now (Wednesday), we are in Bahia Tenacatita. Before we came here, we stopped in Bahia Chamela. When we were anchoring in Bahia Chamela, a dolphin came up to our boat as if to check us out; we watched him for a long time. Suddenly he went a ways away, took three breaths, came back very close to the bow, and rubbed up against the anchor chain! He kept doing that repeatedly, and we went up to the bow and sat there watching him. When other people came into the bay he went to say hi to them too, but quickly came back to us. The next day, after breakfast, the dolphin was still here so we hurried to get our bathing suits on and jumped in the water to swim with him. Dad got out the under-water camera while Molly and I swam up to the bow. When we got there, the dolphin went out further than he usually did and when he came back, he went so deep we could not see him. We waited and waited but he did not come close to us; we saw him above the water but when he went under, he went too deep. The dolphin, it seemed, did not like us in the water with him; I was fine with that and I got out because I was very cold. Then I got the job of on-board camera duty; my job was to push “record” on the camera when Molly shouted that she saw the dolphin. Dad was controlling the waterproof lens while swimming beside the anchor. We got some good shots of the dolphin. After a while, the dolphin got tired of us and left to go pester someone else’s anchor. Later, when we went to the beach, Mom found out from a local that the dolphin’s name was Chip, because the top part of his dorsal fin was missing. Chip swims to Bahia Tenacatita too!