Do you need an amazing swim with dolphins in dominican republic program? Well the program in Puerto Plata is offering a great discount for booking dates from now till December 15, 2009.  The offer is the following:

- Dolphin Encounter Special:

Adult    $89 instead of $115 >> SAVE $26

Child    $69 instead of $80 >> SAVE $11 < Click Now to Order >

- Dolphin Swim Special:

Cruise Season is almost here and the question we always hear is “how far is the cruise port of Georgetown to the Swim with Dolphin Grand Cayman facility?” Well, here is a google map to show you how close the facility is, only 8 miles. This will be about a $24 US dollar taxi ride. They will take US dollars or Cayman dollars.

View Grand Cayman in a larger map

Grand Cayman is one of our more popular dolphin programs we offer. Has anyone been to Grand Cayman? What did you think about the Island? Any travel advice you might have?
God Bless,
John

The swimming with the dolphin in Oahu location has come out with its rates for 2010. The rates have gone up slightly but the new rates do include Free Round Trip Transportation from selected Waikiki Hotels, which is a good thing.  < Click to See Rates >

Hawaii is probably the prettiest location we offer.  I love this park. This park is situated on the side of a volcanic mountain overlooking the North Coast and Ocean, really breath taking. I took my wife here on our Honeymoon and she had a blast there.

Also, the Hawaii location offer the Sea Trek which is where you wear a dive bell and go into a huge aquarium filled with all kinds of tropical fish, different rays, sea turtles, and small sharks.  My wife really loved this since she is not the most adventurous person but got the ocean/scuba diving experience and felt pretty safe. Two dive instructors go into the water with us to ensure safety.

Dolphin Show Oahu Hawaii

Seeing the Dolphins Upclose

Highly Recommend the Sea Trek

North Shore Oahu - What a Location!

We did the Royal Dolphin Swim and Sea Trek combo. I highly recommend it.

Has anyone been to Oahu and have some travel tidbits to share? How to get around? Saving a little money?
God Bless,
John

When you see wild dolphin swimming around, are they are they really protected from the tuna nets? Also, how do we know that the tuna we eat is really dolphin safe, meaning that we are not eating Dolphin as well as tuna. Believe it or not, school children from Texas are helping in this cause.

These students are purchasing cans of tuna from local area supermarkets and getting the tuna tested for the meat content within the can. They are testing the meat to be 100% tuna.  I read this information from an article I read online,  to read more on this story, go to….  < READ MORE >

If you read the article I just mentioned, you will see how these students are involved in this project. My biggest concerns, why aren’t others that are concern about Tuna Safe Labeling more involved, environmental groups or concern citizens? I know what these school children are doing is great but will this testing continue after the students are bored with it.

Also, I looked on Wikipedia about the labeling for Dolphin Safe. I never knew there are different labels and requirements for each label.  Here is what I found…

There are various dolphin safe labels used for canned tuna to show that the fish has been caught without harming or killing dolphins. However, because there are various labels used, there are also various different restrictions imposed on the capture of tuna in order for it to deserve the related dolphin safe label, some labels imposing stricter requirements than others.  < READ MORE >

What do you think about dolphin safe labeling. Do you think it does any good?
God Bless,
John

Kitana, a 2 year old female dolphin, is being rehabilited at Gulf World marine park. They found Kitana off the shore and she was very sickly. Now she is living the good life for now at the park, eating and playing. She is getting healthy quickly.  The reason I say for now, because the last dolphin at Gulf World that was nursed to health and set free got ate by Sharks almost immediately after the release.

The protocol by the Marine Fishery Act requires animals to be set free after they are healthy enough.

You need to see this news clip and give me your opinion < See Video >…

Interesting isn’t it.  Should Kitana be released?
God Bless,
John

Who would think a Dolphin called Beggar the Dolphin would be so famous but this dolphin is. He lives off the coast of Sarasota and he made the news because of his begging for food. This dolphin swims up to boats in the bay and opens his mouth next to the fishing boats and begs for food.

It seems like a lot of boaters are feeding him. If you do a search on Youtube, and type Beggar the Dolphin or Begger the Dolphin, you will find a lot of homemade videos of people feeding this dolphin.

To see a news report on this dolphin, < click Here >.

What do you think, should people be allowed to feed wild dolphins?
God Bless,
John

This story really touched my heart because I have read many stories about Winter the Tailless dolphin. This special dolphin lives at the Sarasota Mote Research Center and has done many great things, like helping a US Soldier that needed some cheering up, but this story tops them all.

Winter the dolphin did a video conference with a dieing boy with Leukemia. This boy, Ross, dream was to swim with the dolphins. Unfortunately, Ross dream to actually swim did not happen but he did have a Video Conference with Winter the dolphins.

You have to read this story. It will really touch your heart and you many even cry, like I did.

The story starts with…..

Ross Perri’s dream was to swim with dolphins. But the 12-year-old resident of Jericho, Vt., was desperately ill with leukemia, so family members and folks at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium gave him the next best thing. < Read More>

What did you think of this story? Pretty amazing isn’t it.
God Bless,
John

Here is your Dolphin Swim Video. It was a pleasure picking you up at the Ocean Sky Hotel in Fort Lauderdale and bring you both down to Miami.

Please make a comment about your day with the dolphin. Also, you can write some comments about your stay in Fort Lauderdale, the hotel you stayed at? Did you like it? Any restaurants you enjoyed? Any tours or activities you like to tell about?

If you want others to see your video, you can click the “Share” button under the 800 number at the top right. You can send the page link through this method.

God Bless,
John

Winter is approaching quickly and on our sister website, Florida-Adventure.com, we posted a story about Singer Island, a great beach destination in Florida.  If you are starting to make your winter or spring break plans, you may want to consider this island for it has beautiful beaches and it is a really quit place to relax.  Some of you out there are looking for that. To read the Singer Island Vacation story, <<< Click Here.

We also have a Singer Island Swim with Dolphin Tour. We pick up from any hotel there. The ride from Singer Island to Miami is about 1 1/2 hours.

Has anyone out ther been to Singer Island? Do you have any feed back about this destination?
God Bless,
John

It so cool when a mother and daughter have chance to spend together and do something special like swimming with the dolphins in Miami.  Here are a few photos of Aisha and Julie from the UK.

Aisha and Julie,  it was really great meeting you both.  Can you take a few moments and write something about your experience? Also, which photo do you like best?
God Bless,
John