Pacific white sided dolphins are possible the hardest marine mammal on the west coast to photograph. They move so quickly and you never know where they are going to surface again. If you spent enough time with them you might witness the most amazing acrobatic show in the world. Once they have had a good feed they can breakout in celebration and launch themselves out of the water, sometimes over ten feet high.

They play games with bits of seaweed, almost like a five a side football game passing the weed amongst each other. They are highly intelligent animals and will often swim over to investigate you. Despite my love for them I can’t help but be worried for the salmon’s sake as the dolphins are spending longer at the mouth of the rivers and are hunting the salmon, decimating the numbers of spawning fish.