Flipper

[Bonhomme Richard]

Had to share.
Off the New Jersey coast by Cape May we ran into about 60 Porpoises hanging around the boat.

[hippywife]

1. That would be such a wonderful sight!

How close were they?

:hi:

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. They were popping up all over but this......

group were about 30 yards off.
That is actually two pictures but for some reason there isn't any break between them.

[hippywife]

3. I've been singing

Flipper all day since you posted this. :rofl:

Very cool, tho. :thumbsup:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. watch out! on your port side!

she is sneaking up on you again@!

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. Always popping up where you least expect her...Damn French.

Or was that Spain?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. Uh, England.

That's the ship that sunk you. Well, JPJones decided she was less damaged than the Bonny Dick, so they took her.

[Bonhomme Richard]

16. My bad. I was thinking Master and Commander. n/t

[jhain]

5. You were here!

Right on my home turf!

Nice captures, Bonhomme Richard.

My daughters go surfing almost every morning and a pod of dolphins has taken to visiting quite reliably! They even have a brand new baby they love to show off- they lift the baby up for the girls to ohh & ahh over..it is magical.

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. Yeah, we saw some babys. Last year we went on the same whale watch

and came upon a pod of finbacks. That was great.
The shots of the porpoises were taken from the boat I was on right off the beach.
I have a shore house up the road in Avalon. I grew up surfing in Avalon and did a lot of partying at a gravel pit lake in the pines of Court House.

[jhain]

7. Holy Crap, Man.

I probably know you.
grew up in Stone Harbor- Dad was a cop there. Were you ever arrested? ;-)
Live in Court House now. On the beach in Avalon almost every day.
These internets are a strange place, heh?

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. Yeah, I was arrested but in Avalon at 18.

Used to party at the gravel pits with a couple of Court House guys whose Dad owned a trash business that picked up in Avalon. Beer and crabs. After they built the new bridge into Avalon we used to walk to the center of it with our fishing rods and beer, climb over the railing, down the ladder and fish off the ice breakers in the middle of the night. We were nuts but caught lots of weakfish. Those were the good old days.
I'm talking about the late 60's - early 70's
LOL, I had a 8' 10" Rick UFO board. Wish I never got rid of it.

[jhain]

10. well,

I would have known those police officers, too!
check your inbox.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

13. I spent 5 years in CM county in the CG

at Manasquan, Cape May and Townsend's Inlet

[jhain]

14. You, too!?

My son is USCG Reserves here!

[Bonhomme Richard]

15. Small World. n/t

[jhain]

17. Well, if we ever have a

DU photo forum meet up we know where to hold it!

Bee trying to get Maestro here- best birding on the east coast!

Off to a concert in Stone Harbor tonight!

[TahitiNut]

8. Atlantic bottlenose dolphin ... they're smarter than most people.

I made a 'friend' of a wild one on a scuba-diving vacation one year in Provo, Grace Bay. A transcendent experience.