Fearless Travel

In addition to all the cool critters that I’ve already mentioned living in the Santa Barbara channel, there are several pods of bottle-nose dolphins. There are those who live close to the shore - they like to herd fish toward the surf then “shoot the curl” of the swells with their mouths open to catch them - and there are those who live out near the islands, in the deeper waters. The video below is of some of the in-shore ones. A bad side effect of living close to shore is that run-off from human civilization - animal waste, garden and farm chemicals, motor oil from the streets, etc. - tends to cause serious health problems in these guys. As a result, they tend to die fairly early compared to their deeper water cousins. I have no idea why  these guys don’t swim further out; maybe the shallow waters are their traditional hunting grounds. Maybe they don’t realize that this condition is not normal and are just trying to survive. And on that happy note, here’s the dolphins:

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