Dolphins

Dolphins are everyone favorite! We all love to see them playing around the sailboat while we are on the way or at anchor. Luckily in Belize we see often dolphins many times big group of dolphins come and play around the boat and we can watch them for hours. 
There are some different type of dolphins in Belize:
Atlantic bottlenose dolphin
Atlantic spotted dolphin
Spinner dolphin
Rough tooth dolphin
However most commonly seen are the bottlenose dolphins. 
When we have a day with a light wind sailing nothing can highlight the day more when the dolphins are coming. We see them from far away we know that they will come and check us out. I was always wondering why they are coming? What is they purpose? I can see how they are watching us as we sitting the side of the boat.  I believe that they are the same way interested about us as we interested about them. Often we can already recognize them by they fin so maybe they also can recognize the boat and they just came to say hi.  Dolphins are super intelligent when you start learning about them it is scary that they have a higher more advanced communication level as we do. I feel that we humans don't give them enough respect, we treat them as just an other animal in the sea.  In many countries still kill them or keep them in captivity for entertainment purposes. Just makes me sad.
I hope when you are sailing in Belize with us we will see dolphins along the way and we can share with you this great experience!  

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