April 14, 2015 What a day in Santa Barbara! The bad news is we didn't see any whales on our whale watching tour, the good news is we saw so many dolphins! We cruised into a humongous pod of common dolphins. They were swimming and leaping everywhere you looked. Mom and I had rock star parking at the very bow of the boat, hanging onto the railing. The dolphins would race to the boat, turn around and swim in the wake right underneath our feet! We had a close up view of them, we could even see their blow holes opening to breathe and hear them as they whooshed out a breath. And there were moms and babies! A dolphin is cute enough, but a baby dolphin is way too cute. We also saw a male
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