Mandurah's Dolphin Blog: Echo is the name of our new baby Dolphin

Mandurah's Dolphin Blog

Bouvard Cruises is happy to introduce you to the official "Mandurah's Dolphin Blog" where we will share with you all of the sightings and encounters we have on our cruises with Mandurah's beautiful wild dolphins. You will find photo's, movies and information on the many dolphin encounters we have on our cruises in and around Mandurah and hope that this information helps raise awareness of Mandurah's wild dolphins. You too can see Mandurah's dolphins, they live just 1 hour south of Perth in Western Australia.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Echo is the name of our new baby Dolphin

Echo was voted the most popular name in our recent Baby Dolphin Naming Contest on our Facebook page. The name was submitted by Faythe Lululemon and Faythe wins a Family Pass on our fantastic Christmas Canal Lights Cruise. Also our lucky random draw winner for another Family Pass on our Christmas Canal Lights Cruise just for voting in the naming contest was Hun Hao Chuah. Everyone else who voted in the contest also wons a 2 for 1 One hour Dolphin and Canal Cruise, just book a cruise and bring a friend for FREE.

There were three dolphins born within a month of each other, the first was named Sonic by the staff because of it's speedy nature. The second baby we named Kat after one of our fantastic staff members who recently left us and now the last is named Echo.

If you want to see, Sonic, Kat and Echo the baby dolphins please come down to Mandurah and we'll take you out and show them to you.

Ph: +61 89581 1242

Email: info@bouvardcruises.com.au

Web: http://www.bouvardcruises.com.au/

1 comment:

Swim With DolphinsApril 30, 2011 at 6:06 PM
Looks really very cool, very wonderful. Nice.....
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About Mandurah's Dolphins

Mandurah has a healthy population of Bottle Nose Dolphins (tusiops truncatus) that is estimated to number up to 75 individuals, depending on the time of year. The number increases around mating times when males come in and join the pods. The pods of dolphins average around 10-15 and have sometimes been seen to be as large as 25 down to solitary dolphins or smaller family groups of 3-4.

Their average length is about 3 metres, with calves being about 1 metre long at birth. We normally see baby dolphins appear between December and April. Mandurah's wild dolphins are medium grey in colour with light flanks and pale bellies. They can live up to 30 years and can swim in short bursts up to 40km/h and they love to play in our ferries bow waves and wash. As a matter of fact dolphins are the only other mammals apart from humans that continue to play well into their adult life. And Mandurah's wild dolphins are very playful!

Thanks to Sally Kirby for some of this information.