Happy Valentine's Day

I can't believe it's halfway through February. I have to get a move on about figuring out where I'm going next. It would be so easy just to stay here, but I've set myself a goal of March 1st as the time to find a new situation. That gives Richard a chance to find someone to replace me and for me to arrange something for me to do. Not sure yet if I should find a new HelpX placement, go sightseeing, buy a car, things like that. And, as a lot of you know, I am hopeless about making decisions.

I went on a swimming-with-dolphins trip on Tuesday, but unfortunately, due to the weather, it wasn't safe to be in the water with the dolphins (not to mention rather cold) but we did see them from the boat.

Actually, because of the speed of the dolphins and the speed of my reaction times, most of the pictures I took were less dramatic than hoped and involved the dolphin reentering the water or a fin, barely visible off in the distance.

I did learn something interesting - when a dolphin has a stillbirth, or the calf dies shortly after birth, she carries around the body until it completely decomposes as part of her grieving process. The tour operators had a picture in their collection of a dolphin carrying her baby's body on her back.