This is my third trip to Kona, I became addicted to this place a few years ago when I came over for a PFI course. This time traveling with my friends Danielle and Caesar who I met last year on a liveaboard in bimini, I turned them to the dark-side and they took they're first freediving course a few months ago. I had not intended for this to be an all consuming dolphins trip but it became one very quick. I arrived 2 days before my friends, went straight from the airport to Place of Refuge to have a look, Annabel and crew were there getting ready to hit the lines, they invited me out but feeling a bit awful from the plane I declined, should have taken them up on it cause there would be no such diving the rest of the trip, beginning the next day forward, dolphins seemed to show up every time I entered the water. I took one charter on tues. which was great because they dropped us out in deep water with pilot whales and one this morning because my friends left yesterday and with a bit of fatigue setting in now thought I might be pushing my luck going out alone, this kind of diving is different there is no relaxed rest/breath-up its non-stop action for hours, heart racing excitement the whole time. The rest of the days we would simply swim out from shore and they would show up.
This is the first video and represents only a fraction of the encounters, 2 days where not filmed at all including one of the best moments when a spinner passed me a leaf, I swam with it a bit and passed it back, the exchange went back and forth a few times until he became bored with my lack-luster leaf game skills and passed it off to another spinner.
There was other non dolphin underwater fun that video will come in a day or two.
(on leaf games) anywhere i've encountered dolphins be it bahamas, hawaii, california, virginia, louisiana, all played the leaf game. Doesnt matter where or what species of dolphin. Do you think they have leagues? championships? is there a Lebron James of the Dolphin world?
[ame=http://youtu.be/lptF_UOmY0A?hd=1]YouTube - SPINNER.wmv[/ame]
This is the first video and represents only a fraction of the encounters, 2 days where not filmed at all including one of the best moments when a spinner passed me a leaf, I swam with it a bit and passed it back, the exchange went back and forth a few times until he became bored with my lack-luster leaf game skills and passed it off to another spinner.
There was other non dolphin underwater fun that video will come in a day or two.
(on leaf games) anywhere i've encountered dolphins be it bahamas, hawaii, california, virginia, louisiana, all played the leaf game. Doesnt matter where or what species of dolphin. Do you think they have leagues? championships? is there a Lebron James of the Dolphin world?
[ame=http://youtu.be/lptF_UOmY0A?hd=1]YouTube - SPINNER.wmv[/ame]