We arrived at Monkey Mia about 7am. first ones there. Monkey Mia is famed for the numerous bottlenose dolphins that decide to visit and interact with the humans at the beach. They are part of a pod of around 300 wild dolphins that live in the bay. In 1964 a lady from one of the near-by fishing camps befriended the dolphins, regularly feeding them. Generations of wild dolphins have enjoyed the regular human contact which has now become a part of their daily lives.A small group of bottlenose dolphins, five adult females and two male calves, swim into the shallows at Monkey Mia some 850km north of Perth. It is totally up to the dolphin when to the dolphins will come into the shore. They usually come in the morning and it is a very rare day when the dolphins fail to visit Monkey Mia at all. the feeding is controlled as each dolphin is easily distinguishable from the next.
I even got to feed one myself!! (After wrestling away the kids...!)
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hi babs and anto lee rach and sarah ere just to say hi. trying to get pics up for ye but the camera is dead!
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