Wednesday, 9 May 2012

The Dolphins at Monkey Mia

Monkey Mia is a world heritage sight up on Shark Bay. It is the resort, basically as far west as you can go in Australia. It started about fifty years ago when a woman started feeding the dolphins off the back of here fishing boat, which lead to everyone feeding them. Of course!! They were getting fed everything, apparently even Vegemite sandwiches. Probably children who would rather go hungry feeding them those. Now it is all regulated. They are fed only by the resort, and a max of three times a day and only up to 500 grams of fish. That's a third of their daily diet. Only five females get fed. I even got to see two week old babies. They pick people from the crowd to feed the dolphins and I got picked one morning to feed puck. So much fun!!! Dolphins bellies go pink they they are happy and these dolphins get spots as they age. They can tell the difference between the dolphins by their fins. Okay, I know what you are all thinking. Quit typing and show us pictures.

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