Feeding the dolphins at Monkey Mia

I was very excited about seeing the dolphins at Monkey Mia. It is something I have been hearing about for many years so it was really great to be here. The whole interaction is very carefully managed by the park rangers. You have to get to the beach by 7:45am and wait on the boardwalk then finally you are allowed down to the water's edge. The dolphins are there from about 7:15 or so and you can see them swimmimg arund waiting for their food. We werer lucky enough to have a baby dolphin at the moment called Piper who is 3 weeks old. Very cute!










Because it is breeding season we had to stay out of the water so that the dolphins don't come right into the shallows. If they do it can mean that their babies are not able to feed. There were 4 wildlife volunteers each holding a bucket with a dolphin's name on it. Each bucket contained only 4 fish as they are careful not to overfeed and have the dolphins rely too much on the food. The volunteers pick people out of the crowd to come into the water and give a dolphin a fish.

Jack and Tom were very lucky to be picked out of the crowd and have a turn of feeding a dolphin. They got to feed Surprise.







On the way back from the dolphin feeding we very nearly bumped into some more emus who were just wandering around the caravan park!