Dolphin Day

Mini aquarium in the hotel lobby

When we departed from the seaside to watch dolphins

Breathtaking experience

On the forth day, we work up as early as 5.45am to meet our dolphin tour boat man. And yes! We're very excited about it, but at the same time, praying for the best so that we could spot wild dolphins at the sea.

Lovina beach was a black sand beach due to the volcano around it. The water was very clear, but due to the dark colour, you hardly see through the sea water. But the sands were very nice and smooth to walk on.

We boarded our small little boat, fit only 3 persons in 3 different rows. I thought I was lucky for not falling out from the boat when I was so excited seeing the dolphins. Our boat man was actually quite good and experience. For the first 2-3 times when the dolphins surfaced out from the water, we were quite far apart. We even saw dolphins making jumps like what we saw in the animal shows. After several attempts, our boat man got hold of the direction of the dolphins, we've actually have twice close encounters with the dolphins when they surfaced out just beside our boat! I was super excited at that time. I just can't express the feelings properly.

Wild dolphins just beside the boat!!!! How cool was that?!

It was an 2 hour tour, but it felt so short. When we finally got back to the hotel, we had our breakfast and got prepared to swim with the dolphins in the hotel. We caught a dolphin show first then the swimming.

I had quite some mental preparation how it would be like, but too bad I didn't really prep Yee Hau very well. So, he's kind of traumatised by the experience. The dolphins weren't very "gentle", nor they are violent. They were very playful. I believe they were just using normal strength, but we're already having bruises all over. At the first dip, the dolphins were just gently moving with you as you swim. But after a while, they started to "assess" you by pushing you. Then when they think they can play with you, they're getting very playful and rough. And yes, dolphins do "molest" us! Especially females! Seems like they can differentiate females and males. They don't quite like Yee Hau when he went into the pool with me, so that keepers have to pull him out from the pool. I was there in the pool pushing around by the dolphins, and molested. Gosh! Of course, I have bruises like what they said in the internet and blogs! Hahahaha!

By the way, something that I must mention here, the dolphins actually kissed me! Without me asking for one :D

All in all, I did not regret doing this, I had fun, with some pain :P

Just be prepared what you gonna get from big animals like these :)

To be continued: Kintamani & Nusa Dua