Page 101 - Holidays with Kids - Volume 62 (January 2020)

Skimming along a sparkling sea of blue, hundreds of Real-time memories
spinning, twirling, diving dolphins appear from out of These are the magical moments of which ‘mother-
nowhere. One minute the ocean is glassy calm and as daughter’ bonding holidays are made of – moments that,
translucent as my cocktail. The next, it’s a splashing, in the eyes of any travelling teenager (and tech-savvy
seething nest of jubilant, playful sea creatures. adults for that matter), need to be Instagrammed and
Sunbeams dance from a group of fins in the distance, Tweeted immediately. So off I run for my brand-new
the owners clearly enjoying a five-star feed. But with iPhone to video the entire affair.
jubilant squeals from my daughter, Bobbie, several Here’s where magical turns muddy. You see, these aren’t
dolphins head toward our boat’s surfable bow wave. ordinary dolphins. They are geeky, nerdish, technophile
Streamlined grey bodies glisten as they roll sideways to dolphins. Dolphins that want to take selfies and order Uber
laugh and smile up at us, flashing rows of Colgate-white Eats. Admittedly, I may bend down to film, and accidently
teeth. Bobbie shrieks with delight as they whistle, click and drop my phone onto a dolphin’s blowhole, but why does it
squeak, all the while breaching, diving, swimming and have to throw it into the mouth of his mate who plunges
02 cajoling with the motion of our vessel. directly to 50 metres?