Dolphin Watching

We spent almost 5 hours out one day watching dolphins and snorkeling. We actually snorkeled so much while we were in Key West that J got two blisters on his toes from the fins!! Anyway, this day were were on a smaller boat. It only held 6 people plus our Captain. He actually lives on the boat and knew alot about dolphins and most other sea creatures. We went out into the ocean to look for dolphins and pretty quickly found a mom and baby. We followed them around for along time and they would swim right up to the boat.

Here's J and I relaxing in the shade watching for dolphins!!
Taking pictures of dolphins is not easy. They are fast!! I managed to get a few pics where you can actually tell it's a dolphin.

If you look very closely at this one where one dolphin has it's fin out of the water you can see there is another dolphin right beside it still in the water. This was the mom and baby.

Here's J getting some sun on our way to go snorkeling! I can't BELIEVE I didn't think to get a pic with our snorkeling gear on.....oh well.

On this snorkeling trip we saw several fish, lots of sponges, and lots of lobsters. The lobsters kind of made me nervous!! J said he touched the antenna on one, but I tried to just stay on top of the water and away from lobster antenna and claws. We also saw a couple of HUGE rays, but luckily that was also from the boat and not while we were in the water! It was a fun way to start the day. We had packed a lunch so after snorkeling we had a picnic lunch on the boat as we rode back to Key West. Island life is so fun!!