This morning I saw the hot tub where the girl painted purple had washed herself. It had a purple haze to it, and there was a worker looking at it who didn’t seem happy.

The plan today was scuba diving. But plans change. I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to go on a cool excursion to Dolphin Cove for incredibly cheap.

All it cost was my soul. Ha ha.

No, unless you count dealing with dolphins in any aqua park damage to your soul. All I had to do was sign a model release form so they can use pictures taken for promotions.

This was for a bunch of us. Way cooler than seeing a few fish underwater.

We first swam into a bay where dolphins were kept. In theory the dolphins could leave any time by leaping over the rocks (which is how the park kept the moral high ground) but then they wouldn’t get all the free fish.

Anyway, each small group gets a pair of dolphins. They swim among you before they start interacting. A drive-by swim letting you feel them. Then they take a photo of the dolphin kissing you and then you kissing them. (If the person ahead of you had bright lipstick that rubs off on sea mammals, you start getting a trashy looking dolphin.) Next the dolphins take you for a quick spin around the water while you hold their dorsal fins. It concludes with the dolphins pushing you around with their noses on your feet. Our group had a petite ballerina. She was actually pushed enough that she was out of the water with the dolphins visible. Most people stayed quite in the water. Maria became very sucky over dolphins and had a goofy grin on her face the entire time.

After dolphins came sharks. Only a limited number got to swim with the sharks and touch them. Since we were all so uninhibited we had too many people who wanted to try. To be fair, we let only the women go. It looked fun.

Then came stingrays. I got to hold one for awhile. They feel like they have a layer of jelly all over them. There were showers to wash off the sea water, but it came directly from Dunn’s River Falls. Which apparently made it too cold for the Americans. I am Canadian, and it felt fine.

Finally, after a quick lunch, we went through a nature trail. The first stop was a bored looking donkey. Things got better quickly. The parrot part was next. You got to hold one, as it played dead in your hands, and let others crawl over you. They kept taking my sunglasses off the top of my head and throwing them to the ground.

Next was a constrictor we got to hold. Then a large iguana. After that we headed back to the resort. I could have purchased pictures of the event, but they were really expensive.