Name the Baby Dolphin Competition

The votes were close between Tide and Alluka...

Alluka was the winner with 158 votes compared to 116 votes for Tide.
Congratulations to Shanae Miller who suggested the name Alluka you are the winner of the Mandurah Stay & Play Package.
There have been a number of new dolphin calves recently so I'm sure one of the Bouvard Cruises crew will name another calf Tide.

Alluka was born on the 3rd of March and first sighted by Ron & Sarah onboard the "SuperCat". Alluka is the calf of a resident unnamed Mandurah Dolphin that has a bend in her dorsal fin. She is often called "Bendy Wendy". Perhaps we will have to call her Wendy from now on as we are frequently seeing her and Alluka playing in the wake of our boats.

Seal Sighting

Today onboard the "Dancing Dolphin" Kim & Alex had an exciting afternoon near the starboard marker near the sticks channel. They sighted a pod of dolphins moving quite quickly upstream and were not interested in interacting with the boat. They had there eye on a school of fish on the point near the sand bar. All of a sudden a seal popped up amongst the dolphins! It popped it's head above the water a few times and then disappeared.
The "Dancing Dolphin" continued back downstream near the New Traffic Bridge when the seal popped his head above the water again. There were a few fisherman on the bridge and the seal seemed to be looking for a free feed from the fisherman.

Last weeks dolphin sightings

Dolphins sighted on most cruises last week.
Last Friday, Sunday & Monday a popular spot for feeding was along the rock wall at the Entrance to the Marina. Up to 5 dolphins were seen on Monday feeding in this spot on large school or herring.

Saturday the 29th Doug & Julie had Nicki and her calf riding the bow of "Dancing Dolphin" from the Entrance to the Port Mandurah Canals to the entrance to the marina.

Monday the 31st Alex, Kat & Bec onboard the "Dancing Dolphin" were joined by 26 passengers from Sydney visiting Perth to compete in the National Disabled Ten Pin Bowling Championships. A pod of 3 dolphins followed the "Dancing Dolphin" riding on the bow from the New Traffic Bridge all the way through the Port Mandurah Canals to the War Memorial.
The water was crystal clear and everyone got some great photos of an unidentified adult dolphin that has quite a few scratches at the back of it's dorsal fin.
Kat managed to get a few photos on her new camera but mainly took photos for the bowling club to take back to Sydney with them.