Doug and Kim were out and about last Sunday onboard the "Dancing Dolphin" and heading from the Port Mandurah Canals into the estuary when they spotted a dolphin fishing in the shallow waters of the Creery Wetlands. They headed over to the dolphin who at first was only interested in one thing, breakfast but after finding enough to eat the dolphin decided to have a bit of fun and play infront of the boat as it cruised through the calm inland waters of the Mandurah estuary. With lots of children onboard the boat was filled with squeals and laughter as the dolphin happily played for people to see.
Captain Kat and hostie Kat onboard "Super Cat" also managed to find a playful pod of dolphins for their passengers. This particular pod were only to happy to jump in the wake of the boat and followed us into Sticks Channel at the start of the Peel Inlet, then turned around with us on our journey back to Manjar Bay once again jumping and playing in the wake, to the amazement of some of our overseas visitors.
If you would like to see Mandurah's playful dolphins please contact us at Bouvard Cruises:
Ph: +61 89581 1242
Email: info@bouvardcruises.com.au
Web: www.bouvardcruises.com.au
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Did You Know?
3 Dolphin years is the equal to 1 human year when the dolphins are living in the wild. In captivity 2.5 dolphin years is one human year.
Winter Wonderland!
Winter is here! Lucky for us dolphins can be seen in Mandurah all year round, which means you don't have to wait until the sunny weather returns to see some of our playful friends. In the last few weeks the dolphins have been in and out of the estuary every day playing with the boats and looking for food in the shallow waters. Mandurah is a great place for the dolphins as the shallow waters are warmer than the ocean outside and the canals offer a easy way of catching food. The dolphins use the rock walls in the canals to herd the fish into corners making it an easy meal.
We also have a new face in town a dolphin who was seen with another of our favourites Scar was playing on the bow wave of "Dancing Dolphin" this week and one of our skippers Doug came up with the name Tiger. The dolphin has scaring from its dorsal fin to the top of its head in a stripy pattern. The scaring has been caused from sunburn which occurs when the dolphins get caught on sandbars for a period of time and their skin gets burnt and dries out, when the burn has healed it leaves a white scar instead of the usual grey colouring of the dolphin.
Tuesday 22nd June was a fun day onboard "Super Cat" Debbie and Bob Krause from Brisbane saw dolphins at the side of the boat jumping, they played and frolicked in the wake for 5-10 minutes in the main channel heading towards the ocean marina, Bob was wrapped to have seen the dolphins playing with the boat.
If you would like to see Mandurahs playful dolphins please contact Bouvard Cruises:
Ph: +61 89581 1242
Email: info@bouvardcruises.com.au
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