BIG DOLPHIN LOVE!

My friend Craig sent me a link about some dolphins on the north island of New Zealand that saved a family from sharks. ()NZ News

Gotta have love for the dolphins! This pic is from a pod we saw while visiting a salmon farm in the Marlborough Sounds, South Island, N.Z.

AERIAL VIEW OF THE MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS

Many helicopter rides on this trip - some good pilots, some not-so-good. On this day I was happy to finally put my feet back on the ground and wondered if it was the belly full of green-lipped mussels, big breaths of diesel exhaust or wild ride of g-forces that led me to almost shake hands with El Vomitar. Probably all of the above. Stunning scenery nonetheless - let the record show that ETK was not the only one to feel the effects after wild heli action.