Surfing Waves

They scared the crap out of me on Sunday morning. I was out there and first one just popped up right in front of me...noisy...totally caught me off guard. Then two of them were thrashing around behind me...but the kind of thrashing you usually see sharks doing. haha

I love when they are out. Makes surfing that much more special.

yeah my dad surfed with dolphins once and he couldnt stop talking about it...

It's hard to stop talking about it. Especially when they are so close that you can make out details like skin textures and whatnot. It's just really beautiful to be out there with them. They are gorgeous animals.

Manhattan Beach. 9 times out of 10, that I go out there, dolphins are around. There's always dolphins around.

you lucky lucky people. i saw a duck once, except it was a cormorant.

ha ha i hear you babyboarder thats what it used to be like back in Mcr , was out once at sennen cove (cornwall) last year and 3 or 4 Dolphins showed there faces or beaks or snouts whatever there called and were jumping about havin fun untill some nuggetts in a boat scared them off tryin to get up close withe them

ive never seen one or even two

Dolphins are so wonderful. I think the most I saw was an otter, cold waters up here!

Ive surfed with a seal before! Up in Mass. came up to me, mabye 20 feet away. It was awsome, but he only stayed a few minutes, then left.

seals are the coolest... and they surf with so much style... and then kick out perfectly when they see the need to.

seagulls surf well, last time i was down surfing there was a big day (4ft ish, big for me) and there were seagulls just trimming along these waves, verry cool, but not particularly exotic

ya its nice to have dolphins with you (keeps sharks away most of the time), its when they leave fast that you start to worry lol.

I swam with Boto's (Pink Amazonian River Dolphins) in Bolivia once, except that they are not sociable like bottlenose or similar species of dolphin. And they dont have dorsal fins, so its really hard to work out if they are still there or if theyve swum off. But you get in the river when they are there cos its supposed to keep the Pirahnas, Camen and Aligators away no one got eaten so i guess its true....

Have surfed with an awful lot of seals. Only surfed with a dolphin once and it was really cool. He gave me an awful fright though -he was behind me and I just hear this burst of air and turn around and see a fin! He kept circling myself & the two other lads out, going from one person to the next. Beautiful animals.

Was out another day during the summer last year, beautiful evening, -lovely sunset and it was tiny but super clean so said I'd take the longboard for a paddle. There were alot of mackrel jumping & I caught one wave and as I was coming in, I could see about 6 mackrel dashing right from underneath the board, really cool.

Another day I was coming in on a wave, alot of mackrel out aswell and one jumped and just narrowly missed my board, if I'd turned a millimetre to the right I could of had him for dinner!

And then there was another time I was out during the summer and there was about a million sprats being chased by mackrel all over the beach, of course they directed them right towards me and there were sprats jumping all over my arms & legs, etc. Absolutely horrible, I'd to lie down the board with my feet up in the air. yuck!
Felt like a right idiot. Went in straight after it.

i nearly paddled into a big frenzy of about 8 BIG bull sharks. Ive had a few other close calls, i was sitting in the lineup and i see a big blunt nose and a fin, tiger shark. He was like 8 feet long, he just swam right through the middle of the jetty.