The dolphin kissed me.� It was a fleeting but memorable touch. I was in the water at Dolphin Cove in Jamaica experiencing a "Dolphin Encounter."� Jamaica's Dolphin Cove has the ambiance of a theme park - before you get in the water with the dolphins, you can swim with stingrays and watch a shark show.
I've gone scuba diving with dolphins in the ocean and played with them in more limited (and to me questionable) circumstances. Great care is taken here to treat the dolphins properly and there's plenty of water where they can swim around. (And, there's a place where the rocks are low enough that the dolphins can leap over them and swim away in the ocean. The few who do come back because here they don't have to spend most of their days searching for food.)
The encounters vary at Dolphin Cove. You can step down on a ledge in the water to touch a dolphin and watch these marvelous mammals leap out of the water, twist around and sink back into the water with a massive splash. Or, you can spend time in the water where you'll get to gently touch them and even zip along in the water with them for a bit.
Photo: � Lois Friedland
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