The stark-white cruising craft, accented with age and outfitted with purpose has given us another tale from its cozy, accommodating passages through the vast and watery Bahamian space realm. August 14, 2019 The trip was off to a bang, with fun, friendly passengers already folding themselves into the mix by having fresh conversations and getting to know one another. No one was being shy (not that being shy is a bad thing) and the wheels were turning for finding out what makes

Summarizing the fifth trip for the Wild Dolphin Projects 2019 field season, we begin with a hot, sultry exploration and finish with a tussle against ocean tempests. July 08, 2019 The first work day of our fifth trip was spent in an otherworldly environment, cruising up the bank into what seemed like some hot, phosphorescent gassy planet that was sitting too close to a giant, boiling sun. The horizon was non-existent. There was only a faint separation between the layers of bli

Summarizing the second trip of the Wild Dolphin Projects 2019 field season. May 23, 2019 Nothing has ever been more grounding conceptually to me than the idea that, in order to experience the highs, one must also undergo the lows. Since the term good is relative, we simply cannot have one without the other. As if championing this concept, as both a direct and literal metaphor, the high and low pressure systems that drive our weather across the globe stand to serve as a metric

The Wild Dolphin Project begins its 34th consecutive season. May 08, 2018 Day 1: As if the last seasons requests had been heard, we broke through the inlet and were met by gentle strolls of less than two foot waves shimmering like a layer of wrinkled plastic overtop a dark blue liquid. A pair of jet skis were sitting idle in 100 feet of water without even rocking in the slightest. The conditions were favorable to say the least. During the entire crossing I made constant squea

Summarizing the eighth trip of the 2018 Wild Dolphin Project field season August 17, 2018 In the early hours.. When the clouds have gathered on the horizon and are awaiting the suns daybreak, our boat, Stenella, is slowly coming to life. Along its white, fresh with morning dew deck-space, a collective shuffling has begun on board beginning with myself, usually up on the aft deck by 0615. Starting with a short, calisthenic warm up to get the blood flowing, followed by a series

Summarizing the seventh trip of the 2018 Wild Dolphin Project field season August 01, 2018 Tomorrow would be the opening season for lobster and the seas were on! A mate from the year before and I were running the trip as co-captains. We would be sharing in the responsibilities and rock, paper scissored for the captains quarters. It went four rounds, but I lost at the end. The minute our bow broke past the outgoing tide line of the Lake Worth inlet the seas began to pound. Sta

Summarizing the sixth trip of the 2018 Wild Dolphin Project field season July 17, 2018 I like most all music, but the blues digs in deep. It's a little known secret, but I actually enjoy the hours of isolation on the boat when the bridge is empty and the blues I'm listening to starts to crank. The strum of the chords matches the chaotic tussle at the surface between wind and water. Contemporary acts like Ben Harper or Gary Clark Jr. squeal their guitars at a feverish pitch, w

July 05, 2018 Summarizing the fifth trip of the 2018 Wild Dolphin Project field season Photo by: Brittini Hill Embraced by the fingertips of the ocean, I dive deeper, stay down longer and am wrapped up by the pleasure of being a bystander to all that passes by. Sensing the all-connecting flow, I rock to its rhythm along with everything else. The corals dance with the penetrating light and the fish seem to take turns being massaged by its radiating presence. As I sit on the bo

June 25, 2018 Summarizing the fourth trip of the 2018 Wild Dolphin Project field season "People get possessed with church or God and fishing's just another thing that they're possessed with. It's something inside of them that nobody can take away and if they're not doin' it they're not gonna be happy." (The Perfect Storm) Trip four was an abundance of awesome encounters, unique experiences and quite possibly the most diverse and loaded trip of the 2018 season yet. We had very