Visitors...Dolphin day

We have had Krysti and her kids MJ and Jessica staying with us for the past couple weeks. It's always nice to have them visit and we have enjoyed their stay. They've spent their time going to Movieworld, swimming at the Broadwater, shopping and generally playing around at home. They will be flying home tomorrow afternoon.

Last Sunday I took Jasmine fishing. There were schools of bait fish in and around the Seaway and I was hoping that we might see some Dolphins chasing them because Jasmine has always wanted to see Dolphins in the wild. While fishing we had a very bizarre experience when a fish about 40cm long swam up to the boat and was just hanging around near the surface of the water. I'm assuming it may have been a bit sick or possibly trying to use the boat as some kind of shelter from maybe a larger fish in the deep. I tried to net the fish just out of curiosity and it just got away. Strangely it came back again but swam away when I put the net into the water again. Lani, Krysti and the rest of the kids were not too far away swimming at the Broadwater and they phoned let us spotted some Dolphins had just swam past them. Jasmine and I immediately headed to where they were and followed the group of about 8 Dolphins for approximately 20 minutes. They were getting stuck into schools of bait fish in relatively shallow water and at times popped up out of the water within a metre of the boat. Unfortunately, I was running a little low on petrol and we had to head back towards to boat ramp to avoid the risk of having to row back. Jasmine really enjoyed the experience and later told me that it was the best day of her life.