we were to swim with the pink dolphins and so we decided to go out in swim trunks without any musquito repellant or sun block (for those who did use it). We parked in a little laguna and waited. Soon a couple of really unreal pink Dolphns lazily swam into the pool. One by one the brave and better swimmers including Yannick jumped into the water. We watched in horror as many other tourists on another boat were lathering themselves with sun block before diving in and polluting the water. Luckily, the repercussion of this, is that the Dolphins won't go near anyone with block or Deet!
Yannick was swimming round like a fish and I think the Dolphins found having a kid around interesting and wanted to check him out. They swam around him, scaring him the first time. I was sitting on the edge of the boat contemplating diving in when out of the blue this meter long pink snout pushed itself out of the water and took a nibble at my feet. I was shocked and then ecstatic. The next time it happened, it was still a shock, but since I was a little for ready for it, it was fun. Finally I jumped in but given my swimming skills I decided not to venture out too far from the boat.
The Dolphins were really beautiful and playful. To be swimming with the Dolphins in a beautiful amazonian laguna in the Yacuma knowing caymen, alligators and Piranha could well be around made me delirious and very worried when it came to Yannick, especially because he was good 3 or 400 meters away from our boat! The pleasure of watching the Dolphin try and play with Yannick is unquantifiable!
It was time to leave and as we left we realised we weren't leaving without a strong reminder of where we were. Most of us were musquito bite pock marked but it was well worth it.
What followed was a long dusty ride back to Rurrenbaque, a fun evening playing snooker in the hostel, a decent meal and some sleep. We were all set ot get bak to La Paz on the smallest flight any of us had ever been on. It was time to figure out our plans into Peru since we had been hearing rumours about the border being closed once again!
Yannick was swimming round like a fish and I think the Dolphins found having a kid around interesting and wanted to check him out. They swam around him, scaring him the first time. I was sitting on the edge of the boat contemplating diving in when out of the blue this meter long pink snout pushed itself out of the water and took a nibble at my feet. I was shocked and then ecstatic. The next time it happened, it was still a shock, but since I was a little for ready for it, it was fun. Finally I jumped in but given my swimming skills I decided not to venture out too far from the boat.
The Dolphins were really beautiful and playful. To be swimming with the Dolphins in a beautiful amazonian laguna in the Yacuma knowing caymen, alligators and Piranha could well be around made me delirious and very worried when it came to Yannick, especially because he was good 3 or 400 meters away from our boat! The pleasure of watching the Dolphin try and play with Yannick is unquantifiable!
It was time to leave and as we left we realised we weren't leaving without a strong reminder of where we were. Most of us were musquito bite pock marked but it was well worth it.
What followed was a long dusty ride back to Rurrenbaque, a fun evening playing snooker in the hostel, a decent meal and some sleep. We were all set ot get bak to La Paz on the smallest flight any of us had ever been on. It was time to figure out our plans into Peru since we had been hearing rumours about the border being closed once again!
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