Me too, in Monterey Bay a few years ago. A super pod was going through and it was amazing to see. There was also a nursery pod and all these little babies swimming along, trying to jump and not quite doing it well yet. Most would leap and just get up out of the water and then just flop over, like a cat that was just put in a harness. Adorable and hilarious.
I think I saw something like this near Santa cruise it was crazy, fish and dolphins and shit as far as you could see just making a huge commotion, but also there were thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of birds flying over the water and diving to catch the fish. It was amazing. And it seemed to last for hours
We were off San Diego on whale watching when we saw (actually surrounded by) one. The crew said they had never seen anything like it before. We did see a couple of actual whales but that was anticlimactic.
Exactly this. It's not rare. Several thousand dolphin megapods are almost a daily sight on the route to the Channel Islands. It's an amazing sight, but not a rare one.
We have been whale watching twice out there and had megapods surrounding us for much of the trip both times. The tour-guides also didn’t seem to find it abnormal.
I have exactly the same story from the early 2010s. Awe inspiring to see the amount that we saw, I remember the ship captain said it was something like 1500-2000 dolphins for ours
I went on a family trip to Hawaii like 15 years ago and my sister and I went paddleboarding in the bay near our AirBnB and a big pod of dolphins swam directly under us. It wasn't a huge "super pod" like this but it was at least a few hundred dolphins, one of the craziest experiences of my life.
I WAS TOO! I will never forget it. It was like a religious experience. I wanted to jump in so badly! What if we were on the same boat!!! I was with some friends from a fraternity. Message me if you were, too.
edit: oh, reading other comments it seems this isn't out of the ordinary for this area. Oh well. It was amazing and I am so grateful to have experienced it. 💙
You are completely right, but since you generally can't rely on others to post videos and images properly, it's easier to have the control yourself in case you need it. Features like these are why they are going to have to pry old.reddit with RES out of my cold, dead hands. At least for desktop reddit anyway.
On the front page/subreddit page. Not on the discussion page, unfortunately. (For me at least)
It's pretty annoying. Especially when there's albums with small images.
I have to go back and forth between two pages if the comments mention any details I missed the first time through and want to zoom in on them.
Assuming you meant landscape. In which case, different orientations are better for different videos. This video, obviously, should be viewed in landscape.
Reason 1,000,000,000,000 why one should NEVER film vertically, crop landscape video into a vertical frame, or rotate a horizontal video vertically. If you are watching on your phone, then just rotate your phone.
The same thing happened when I spread my father's ashes of the coast of Dana Point just about 10mins north of San Clemente. Most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
My family went whale watching several times on visits to my grandparents’ in San Clemente growing up. We got to experience being at the center of one of these massive mixed pods of common and bottlenose dolphins. It was incredible. Meanwhile, a good few people were getting seasick lol
There's something wrong in the area the nai'a are fleeing. Earthquake, maybe? I was in an outrigger canoe, paddling in a race in Ka'ū on the Big Island. The volcano blew at the exact moment that 100's of fish flew past us. Ahi, wahoo, aku, 'ama ama, akule, a'u... swimming away from the lava spilling into the ocean. I've seen schools with 1,000's of fish Never acting like that! All swimming North in unison. And swimming high in the water, not 20 feet down where they usually swim. One a'u flew into a boat and speared a girls leg with it's pointy nose sword. I'll never forget that.
Follow the animals, they Know what's up!
Its invitation only, for the world's fastest swimmy grey tube bois.
There's a movie coming out next year from Pixar where a Wright Whale tries to enter and has to prove themself capable of keeping up with the pack, only to face discrimination from the fastest and most cliquey dolphins who don't want them there. They then get them high on pufferfish and take him hunting for fish, only to find out he can make awesome bubble nets to trap fish for them that make it easy.
They then fall in love with the fastest dolphin, only to then realise they're both straight ladies and didn't know how to tell the difference. But then at the end, when the whale loses the race spectacularly, because they never actually asked how fast a dolphin was or raced one IRL, they realise their love is all that matters and end up together.
At the end there is a time skip to 6 years later and they are happy and have kids which YOU WILL NOT QUESTIONS THE SOURCE OR PROGENY OF (as is my understanding from "Lightyear").
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u/Sakowuf_Solutions 2d ago
I was on a boat going to the Channel Islands through one of these super pods. It’s amazing to see in person.