Up close to the Dolphins

Hi all,

I had the most amazing day in Port Macquarie recently. I dragged Chris away from the surf and sold him the idea of going on a dolphin safary with me, the grabber for him was that I'd chosen one that included a devonshire tea (scones, cream, jam, etc..).
When we first set off I had a feeling that we weren't going to see very much, 2 minutes into the trip we saw a few dolsal fins pop up but no more than I'd seen from the beach, and I wanted to get VERY close to them. The fins disappeared and for an hour, nothing. I felt dissapointed and like I'd wasted money, and Chris still hadn't got his scones.
A little girl who was stood next to me started manically poiting and shouting "dolphin, dolphin!", and there they where 2 huge dolphins right in from of us. They came right up to us, I could have touched them, they where playing in the wave and they kept going on their side to have a look at us. I'm not joking, they where seriously interested in having a look at us, and swam on their sides with a big grin and their eye fixed on us waving at them.

Then a third one came and went beserk!! He was jumping, making really loud noises, swimming backwards and on his back to you could see his belly, he loved the attention!!!
Here are a couple of shots but they don't do them justice, I was too busy feeling completely stoked to focus on taking photos.