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Are you looking for a ocean paradise to spend some time unwinding from the demands of life? Find a great room at one of the fabulous hotels along Key Largo www.hotelskeylargo.com and settle in for some fun in the water and sun. You can go and spend some time at Dolphins Plus. They are an organization that is committed to protect many marine mammals all over the world. The have created natural sea homes for Atlantic bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions. You can join in with the fun by swimming with the sea mammals enjoying a rare opportunity to experience there sweet personalities. Visitors will also get quite the education on marine mammals when they include people in there research programs as they visit.

It is such a treat to watch the dolphins give their water ballet together. They are truly a lot of fun. They love to play with humans as they swim under your feet while you are wading in the water. They like to act as a tow for swimmers and pull people around by there fin. We have been able to learn so much about and from dolphins. They have great vision both in and out of water. There ears are small and located behind there eyes. They have such great swimming power that comes from the caudal fluke, or rear fine, that moves up and down. Unlike other fish forms that move there rear fin side to side. The Dorsal fin that sticks up out of the water is a good stabilizer as well as a way to regulate the body heat. They are actually about as warm as a human at 97.7 degrees Fahrenheit. They heat lots of smaller fish and live to be about 40 years old if protected 25 to 30 years old if out in the wild.

Dolphins don’t sleep they cat nap for a few minutes at a time. The females have babies every 2 or 3 years. They cruise at speeds from 5 miles an  hour to 30 miles an hour. They usually travel in small packs about 15 dolphins together. With a mix of females, babies and males. There can some times be larger groups that travel together and then you find the normal hierarchy establishing maneuvers such as tail smacking, jaw snapping or head butting. Not unlike a day on the playground.