Another story about Dolphins and Drums

Posted by Marta on March 3rd, 2007 filed in Uncategorized

IlI found this story on the web by an unknown author

A long time ago I shared a beachhouse in Florida with a few friends, we were all street musicians part time. So we go down to the beach one evening toting our drums and gear, girlfriends in tow, and set up a little drumming circle pretty close to the water’s edge and start drumming, and the girls start dancing. After a bit we had attracted a small crowd, everyone enjoying the scene. This pod of dolphins comes cruising right up, as close as they could get and still be swimming freely in the water, quite a few of them, a litttle under a dozen from my recollection. They all start swimming in this tight figure 8 pattern, and seemed to speed up and slow down with the intensity of the drumming level. This goes on for quite awhile and now the crowd is getting big, everyone on the beach is standing around slack jawed watching these dolphins “dance” as close to the human dancers as they can get. Eventually we stopped drumming, the dolphins immediately just swam away. I will never forget that scene, just too totally cool!

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