What Does a Dolphin Feel Like
When bringing people to swim with the dolphins, the biggest thing people talk about is what a dolphin feel like. Many say the dolphin skin feels like rubber, some say it feels like a hard boiled egg, and some say it feels like wet leather.
I am curious what you thought the skin would feel like before you entered the water with the dolphins and what it actually felt like to you?
It would be interesting to see what you say.
God Bless,
John
September 28th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
its been many years but i expected a slimy feel like a fish, I was delighted when finally i felt a dolphin. I felt no slime.LOL OF course the dolphin I touched was a dolphin at Sea Life Park so maybe that made a difference. I swim amoung wild dolphins but NEVER touch them =0)
September 30th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I think dolphins are happy not just because there smile they carry with them all the time but they seem to have a happy free life other sometimes sharks but all i know if i was a dolphin i wouldent be complaining i would love to swim around in the wonderful water as long as the water was nice and clear and it fish all day and not worry about anything but fun fun fun !
September 30th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I have done swimming with the dolphins three different times and I have always thought that the dolphins feel like a wet intertube tire but warmer!!
September 30th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
I swam with the dolphins at the Miami Seaquarium during the summer of 2008 – and I thought the dolphins felt like rubber – it was very interesting. I loved doing that – I’d swim with them every day if I could – I adore dolphins!
Dana Russell
September 30th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I remember vividly the very first touch of a dolphin. I was at Theater By the Sea, in the Keys – and got chosen to come down from the audience to touch one and feel his skin. I was asked what it felt like: I said, ” An opened wet rain umbrella.”
I will NEVER FORGET that touch and the beauty of his eye ..knowing how he just made a dream come true!!!!!
October 4th, 2009 at 7:28 am
I admire and applaud the work you are doing on behalf of whales and dolphins. However, I respectfully submit that public interest and concern for these magnificent beings will only reach critical mass by blending scientific fact with speculative fiction, as I have done in my new novel, The Tempest’s Roar. In Hollywood speak it is ‘Lord of the Rings’ meets ‘Finding Nemo’. Please visit my website http://www.rarclouston.com or read my blog http://whaleanddolphintalk.blogspot.com/
October 6th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Hi RAR,
I just looked over your blog and made a comment there. I hope you have lots of success with your book.
God Bless,
John
January 16th, 2010 at 9:47 am
When I swam with the dolphins it was in key west. Personally, I thought their skin felt like our skin would if we were wet all the time.
January 18th, 2010 at 12:58 am
Hi Leda,
Very interesting. I guess in some way there are similarities with our skin and theirs.
Where did you go in the Keys? Do you remember?
God Bless,
John