Gibraltar

Sept 11th
Gibraltar

Today I made another return trip to Gibraltar. This time however, I was signed up for a dolphin safari tour, taking the group out into the bay to go looking for dolphins. And to my surprise, it was really fun, I saw a lot of dolphins. I believe they were “common dolphins”, or at least that’s what I understood the tour guide to be saying. They were a lot smaller than their bottle nose counterparts I’ve seen in Florida. But it was really fun watching the group jumping out of the water, swimming under and right next to the bow, and just having fun being dolphins. My camera’s battery unfortunately died due to my miscalculation of time remaining, so I didn’t get half the pictures I wanted to. Some of the pics or videos I would have liked to take were when there was a group of 4 of 5 just off the bow, and as they swam at the same speed of the boat, they would weave above and below each other, do barrel rolls over the other dolphins, or just crash into them, all with the bow just inches away. After that I just headed back to the ship, I didn’t really feel the need to go back into the city, we’ll be there one more time anyways. Maybe I’ll try for another monkey tour next time, we’ll see. Otherwise, we had the Elton John show again that night, and then I hung out with some friends till late that evening. We had another alpha emergency today though, and another helicopter was flown in. According to the announcement, it was too large to land on the ship and dropped a basket to haul the person away, who I believe passed away. In addition to which, has delayed our arrival to Barcelona by 2 or 3 hours. It’s really odd that we’ve had so many medical emergencies recently, when over the past 2 months that I’ve been here (almost), I’ve heard of maybe one or two. Well, my prayers go out to their families, and I hope this streak doesn’t continue.