This was another stellar day in Fiji. We went on a Spinner Dolphin Tour with Plantation Resort. I've never seen wild dolphins before. We went in pontoon boat. About an hour into the tour we found a pod of 15-20 dolphins. The guide, Moses, said they have babies so they don't come out of the water as much. I don't know anything about dolphins. They swam lurching out of the water so we could see their fins and then dived below and disappeared. A few minutes later they appeared. Hide and seek like that went on for most of the tour but after while out of nowhere on of the dolphins spun out of the water. It was so COOL! I'd never seen anything like that, but they were entirely out of the water spinning entirely around in a circle, their tails touching the water and their noses pointed to the sky. Later they swam next to the boat and all tolled about half-a-dozen dolphins leapt out of the water and spun. It was just magnificent. We just absolutely loved it. LOVE IT!!!
SNORKELING!
After we spotted dolphins Moses took us to a new snorkeling spot. It was very good. It was a little further from the resort which was nice -- a little less snorkeled (a little but not much less). There were thousands of small blue fish that bury themselves in the coral. Even tho there are thousands of them they move like one organism. It's like the ocean breaths and they float in and out of the coral. It's a little hard to describe but I hadn't seen anything like that either. It was really cool. We'd see more of that the next day too.
SUNSET CRUISE!
This night we went on a sunset cruise with Plantation. They have a 300 HP speedboat that six of us fit in. They served appetizers, beer and soda and then take us on a tour of the local islands. We got to see and even stop at some other resorts (giving me ideas for any additional Fiji vacations!) and eventually they idled while we watched the sunset. It's the sort of thing where you can physically watch the sun crawl below the horizon. Then, in order to beat the darkness they tore back to the resorts. It was the funnest non-snorkel activity we did all week. So good I wanted to go again but we couldn't get on any other tours.
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