Mandurah's Dolphin Blog: Playful dolphins

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.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Playful dolphins

Hello there!

This week has seen many fun encounters with the wild dolphins here in and around Mandjar Bay. The picture above was taken by our lovely boat staff of a very happy dolphin checking out all the friendly faces on out 1 hour Dolphin and Canal Cruise. Lets hope this smoke haze from down south disapears in time for a lovely sunny weekend!

Some of the interactions customers have had this week are as follows

Wednesday 22nd February

• Dolphins near inlet

• Heading south beneath the new traffic bridge

• Riding and playing on boat wave

Tuesday 21st February

• Nicky and baby ‘Giggles’ heading up channel towards the marina

• Fishing and frolicking

• In Mandjar bay near the jetty steps

• Pods of dolphins at Fairbridge bank

Monday 20th February

• Pod of dolphins near Mandjar bay

• Pod of dolphins spotted under new bridge

• Dolphins feeding and slowly swimming

Sunday 19th February

• Nicky and newborn ‘giggles’ hanging out with two other female dolphins

• Nicky and calf swan on boats bow for a while

• Pod of dolphins in marina

• Dolphins jumping with boat near the bypass bridge channel marker

• Pod of dolphins in waterside canals swimming slowly

We look forward to cruising with you this weekend!

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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.