DOLPHINS PLAY MORE THAN US … AND HERE'S A WAY TO WATCH THEM DO IT

This is the easiest snorkelling you will ever do, simply float, put your face down and enjoy the dolphin show going off below!

- CHRIS PARRY

LET’S BEGIN THIS STORY ABOUT DOLPHINS by considering what three of my favourite minds have said about them. Albert Einstein, one of the most famous and eccentric theoretical physicists was drawn away from his blackboards and notebooks to once observe dolphins, he remarked. “There’s no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.”

Another famous mind was that of author Douglas Adams, who wrote ‘The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy’. He said, “Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc …and all dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.”

Another great mind, a bit younger and still forming his ideas, belongs to my son Tom who is 11 and has been mentioned in several of my previous travel stories. Lifting his head out of the water and nearly blowing his mask off his face with the wideness of his eyes, upon seeing his first dolphins swim around him, he yelled; “I can hear them clicking! They’re talking to me!”

Now who’s to say which of those is the best quote about dolphins?

It’s not hard to find stunning footage of dolphins on the internet. It’s not hard to see pictures of dolphins in books. Quite often on television you’ll see dolphin documentaries and it’s fairly easy to find a dolphin experience in aquatic theme parks around the world. There are even a few experiences where the dolphins have been conditioned to come to humans and be rewarded with a fish and in exchange you can pat them on the nose.