Dolphins!!!!

Dolphin under water playing with the boat. They are SO fast!

Can you guess the dolphin just below the surface?

We saw a lot of sea life this trip - First, a huge orangy jelly fish decided to hang out by the boat (oh yes, careful if you rinse out the 'bucket' aka toilet at sea, don't scoop out a jelly fish)

Then we saw dolphins THREE TIMES during the trip. First, I saw some, they were playing around the boat, crossing in front of our bow, following us. They stayed a good 10 minutes with us. I called Nathan up and we took pictures. That way right before night time on the first evening.

A second time was the second day, as we were starting to sail back in. The third time was right by Catalina Island. A group of them each time, playing around the boat and with the boat each time.

At some point too, I see something that first made me think of a windsurfer. Given that we were over 10 miles offshore, I figured that it wouldn't be a windsurfer. Never mind, it was a whale (probably a grey one) that was saying 'hi' to us :-) We then had the full show (majestic tail, spouting like a Queen...) - we quickly checked to make sure that there wasn't a cub on the other side of the boat but it looked safe.