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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanJul 1, 10 Comments Off
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Kayena!! This young little thing is becoming more and more like her father Copan everyday who as many of you know is the King of jumping! Most dolphins can reach a height of 15-30 feet in the air and once there soar for quite a ways! This is a behavior that has been taught but dolphins do jump in the wild as well for different reasons. When traveling, they use less energy by jumping than swimming, because water is more dense than air. Dolphins can move a long distance with one long jump, especially with their streamlined bodies. Dolphins also jump to find food, similar to how birds look for fish above the water. In addition, they will jump to scare a school of fish, which then pack tighter into a group, and the dolphin can catch several at once. Dolphins communicate with other dolphins by jumping and become particularly acrobatic during mating season. Male dolphins often do complicated spins and flips, perhaps to attract females, or to show dominance that keeps other males away. Biologists also theorize this behavior might be playfulness in the courtship ritual.
Today was a mad rush to clean the house up before Aimee arrives later tonight. I did take the dogs to the beach for an hour and while they played I cleaned up trash and carried it back to the car. I was again met with opposition in my cleaning effort this morning as a family walked by and just laughed shaking their heads. I said do you like looking at all this trash? They said back to me “it doesn’t bother us and there’s nothing you can do about it anyways”, so just leave it! So, there’s the problem with Curacao, no one cares anymore! I didn’t let it bother me because I know it’s right and that it does help so there you mean people! On the way back from Saint Joris this morning in the middle of a busy road I spotted a baby turtle trying to cross the road! Yes, a baby turtle, I almost crashed the car trying to stop without running him over and hitting the car in front of me! I stopped right in major traffic, everyone was honking at me to move my car and get out the way, the dogs were barking and going crazy but I opened my door and raced out and grabbed him, I surely wasn’t going to let him get run over! He is so cute, some kind of a land turtle and he’s only about three inches long. I immediately called Zenzi who also has turtles and she came to my turtle rescue! She took him to her house to live with her other two and I talked to her just a few minutes ago and he’s eating and doing great, photos soon! The rest of the day was spent shopping, sweeping, mopping, and I even pre-cooked dinner for my tired and hungry traveler so she will have a nice hot meal to come home to tonight! At 4:00 I met a friend and we did a fast and furious hour and a half ride and man was it ever hot! That’s about it. I better get going to the airport! Thanks for all the notes, I am now receiving about 30 Word Press comments a day from new people fining our site, so welcome everyone!! Gotta go, more tomorrow, Barry
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