Dolphone Ballet

Snorkelers kept chasing the dolphins around the little bay on this afternoon, and I was minding my own business doing dives between 60 and 80 feet. Each time I went down, the dolphins approached me, closer with each dive. The dive before this, they also followed me up but at a greater distance which wasn't captured on video.

On this dive that followed, I saw three dolphins checking me out at around 22 meters. I leveled out and swam in parallel with them and then it was game on. Once I started my ascent, they playfully danced around me so close they almost brushed up to me. Could not believe it.

Huge shout out to @barspinner, aka Ryan Brenner, who captured the magic on the GoPro.

Feel blessed to have been afforded this attention by the local Hawaiian spinner dolphin community.