Dolphins off the port bow!
Many times during passage plunks heading south to Mexico we ran into dolphins. At night when the water was full of phosphorescence and glinted like some kind of elvish brew the fish would be a bunch of streaks of light and dolphins would be a massive blur as they streaked behind them. Every now and then the flying fish ( fish with gliding appendages) would flop onto the deck and every morning there would be squid plastered to the deck in their fateful flight from the enemy. Sometimes right before my morning watch would begin someone would call out "Dolphins off the starboard and port bow!" I would hop on deck and rush to the bow and watch the dolphins as they played with the vessel, jumping and diving underneath. Then I would go as close to the hull as I could get inside the forward cabin and listen to them give their high pitched wails. It sounded like a bunch of Meeps... It was quite impressive and it gave one a very happy feeling considering the sque...