And then there was SPLASH !!!

I would like to contribute this blog to a very special guy. He's young, he's a handsome bugger (I fall for him every time I see him) and well yeah - he's a dolphin. People call him splash, but when Im with him I start talking weird mush like-ooo my coshie baboo googly woogly wiggly fishy poo...of course unheard by my colleagues. Unfortunately for Splash, he has to tolerate this kind of crap, and Ive often noticed him looking elsewhere when I go into the mush mode...:-) He is the inspiration for the name of my blog for he is THE CIRCUMAMBIENT CETACEAN. At any given point I can see him at multiple points of the enclosure (I wish he was a free dolphin), and it makes me wonder how freaky he would get if he was out in the opean ocean. He moves like a jet propelled rocket, zig zagging everywhere till he finally sees his trainers rubber footwear. Then his antics begin. He pushes his face out of the water, and then slowly pushes himself onto the pontule and keeps nudging his trainer, till he gets her attention and the much awaited fish/es. He can be exasperating at times for much unlike popular notion about dolphins being the nice good humored obedient animals that they generally are, Splash is an exception to the general rule and believe me it is TOUGH to train an animal with a size nine brain working overtime, an animal who has no respect for stillness, an animal who worships the very notion of motion.
But with all his crazy behavioral symptoms, and his absolute denouncement of everthing conventional as far as dolphins go, he's just a baby. And with all of his imperfections, he's adorable beyond words. He's one of those specail animals that touch one's life and remain etched in one's memories. SPLASH is. And always will be. To Splash ! The dolphin with a difference!