I know alot of ours would be things like flying in a spitfire, gunner on a lancaster, piloting a VC-10 into a busy international airport (Tonks does this every day though!) or just seeing beautiful sights like the opera house or habour bridge in Sydney.
Apparently though top of the list is swimming with dolphins, this is supposedly the number one thing to do before you die. An amazing experience I bet, but I am a little fearful of the sea. It does bother me slightly to think about going into the water and being 'driven' by an animal, such a large and powerful creature of the sea.
Then again though, I did find this picture of a small child enjoying it and not looking scared at all. So surely it cannot be that bad for a fully grown adult?
Has anyone done this or managed to get close?
Cheers Tom
We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary, for the ungrateful
Theres a little island on the Georgia coast called Jekyll Island
close to Brunswick Ga - my daughter did exactly that with a
Dolphin cow and calf and NO they werent in one of those "swim with
the dolphins, for 100 bucks" enclosures. They were totally wild -
we were at a small beach on the south side of the island (which is
actually a estuary rather than open water) My ex wife and daughter
were wading when the calf came up and rolled over to look at my
daughter - within 90 seconds the mother came up to see what the
calf was doing - they spent about 20 minutes in very shallow water
both allowed themselves to be stroked - thye aer very amicable
animals - what made it stranger was that not more than 30 miles
down the road at Kings Bay Georgia is the largest breeding ground for
sharks on the east coast - I will email my ex (not a smart thing to do)
and see if I can get the photo of she and my daughter with the
dolphins for you.
My brother managed to swim with Dolphins in the Dominican Republic when him and his wife were on honeymoon last year. His response always reminds me of this;
Dolphins are very friendly and will often approach and play with people and when they appear locally they will approach boats and swim along with them......there is no doubt they do it on porpoise :roll:
My ex missus always wanted me to go swimming with sharks :think:..... can't think why
Garry
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Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
Think Dolphins are one of the most intelligent species, not only that but extremely friendly. Would just love the opportunity to swim and play with them.
Unlike humans they always appear to have a smile on their faces.
I used to be an optimist but with age I am now a grumpy old pessimist.
Nigel - the really Hilarious part of the whole meeting was when the Mother came up to the calf which was happily having its back scratched by a two y.o human - the "conversation" sounded very much like - "What are you doing come away from that human you dont know here its been" etc etc....didnt phase the calf one bit
Nigel - the really Hilarious part of the whole meeting was when the Mother came up to the calf which was happily having its back scratched by a two y.o human - the "conversation" sounded very much like - "What are you doing come away from that human you dont know here its been" etc etc....didnt phase the calf one bit
I used to be an optimist but with age I am now a grumpy old pessimist.
Whilst landing one on Bush or Blair is right up there, I have no doubt that swimmining with dolphins is one of the most exhilerating experiences of my life, everybody should do it. I ve done it several times, the first time i almost threw up i was so nervous, but i was only 8 at the time.
I recently spent time researching the evidence of dolphins helping people with illness or phobias, You wouldnt believe that 290lb fish? mammal can actually help cure a phobia of spiders!!!!!!!
