Bimini Magic: A Frolic with Wild Dolphins

Tim Rock & Yoko Higashide · Issue 45, Nov/Dec 2008 · pp. 53–55

Products mentioned: Nikon D200, Aquatica housing, Ikelite DS125 strobes, Tokina 10-17mm lens, Sigma 10-20mm OS lens

All this space could be yours for as little as £100 and it will be seen by over 10,000 underwater photographers worldwide. www.uwpmag.com/ advertising.html or e mail Peter Rowlands peter@uwpmag.com 45/54 www.uwpmag.com I was hanging in the Bimini blue. I could see the sandy bottom and I could hear the calls of the wild ocean. I turned and there they were. Oblivious to my mere floating presence, they were calling, swimming and slapping one another in a wild frenzy. It was a group of spotted dolphins. And they were going crazy in a mad ball of pre- sexual foreplay. I had never seen anything like this in the sea and I may never see it again. It’s a little place with a big name. Made famous in the ‘30s by rum swilling fishermen and angler-author Ernest Hemingway, it was the place where facts became fables. But that was then and this is now. Fishing and revelry now share the stage with skin d…