I don’t think I have ever said that before. The Lowcountry has a small unique species of Dolphin, but they don’t usually get involved with the Spanish Moss. However here are the photographs…
We were walking on the edge of the Ashley River, in the local plantation, when I spotted a circle splash. That’s a Dolphin signature. And yes, right alongside us was a Dolphin swimming past. And so close I couldn’t get focus / fit in the frame.
Almost immediately I heard more, even closer. Two were poking the antique shoreline brick wall once built to hold the path we were on.
They turned and moved out away from the old bricks. Ellen was down river a little way and had a great open view of them. But…she had the wrong lens (I thought).
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Ellen was testing a lens we just purchased. An old, used Olympus 14-42 pancake lens. It’s a short and very tiny flat weird lens. It is good to stick in your pocket when on traveling on a plan. Now so good for Dolphin in a river. However, it turns out that small lens is really good. Ellen spent the day getting great shots, in the style she is good at, I have yet to get close yet. LOL
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Note; the Lowcountry has a Dolphin species that only lives along the coastal inlets of South Carolina and Georgia. They never go out into the ocean and fish / breed near our shore. Recently they were found to be a unique Dolphin species.
We have photographed them in the other thing that is different about them. Chasing and catching fish on the shore. They are the only Dolphin that will leave the water after chasing fish to the sand.
Enter the word Dolphin in the search box here, or select the tag, to view photos we have taken among the Dolphins as they hunt.
Dolphins. How cool! And your wife had the “wrong” lens? Mmmmmmm. Who had the right lens?
😆😆. There was no way I would get anything better than I did 🤣. My lens too long, my location all wrong. And I could have moved towards her and had half a chance.
My wife nailed it best as she could. A very old 14-42 Pancake lens in the hands of a good photographer did the trick LOL.
Seeing dolphins is always amazing, even if we aren’t able to get a perfect photo.
We see and photo them often, especially while they are strand feeding. I think I’m a little jaded…but yeah they are amazing. Do a search on Dolphin here and you will find some interesting feeding situations.