East Kalimantan

Alex Tyrrel · Issue 45, Nov/Dec 2008 · pp. 56–61

Products mentioned: Panunee Seamaster

bracelet. Then they would group together in a big ball near the surface. They would start slapping, biting, chirping and chattering. Al told me to not get into the middle of this as a powerful “love slap” from a dolphin can knock your mask off. And if you’re in the middle of this, you’re fair game. So we would dive down on the periphery and watch in amazement. Once they had enough the dolphins would dive down and swim off again only to surface perhaps 100 yards later and do the same thing. They was no pattern to this. At times they would swim far away from us. Other times they would come back and be right in our midst. The younger ones would play with my lens or follow my snorkel model Yoko as she dipped down and twirled around. But the older ones were totally enthralled with this foreplay. Actual dolphin mating takes less than a minute on the average. But the foreplay goes on for a long…