Swimming with dolphins

Usually when you are travelling, people tend to exaggerate on the beauties of their land:

"...on our island you will swim in the most crystal-clear waters of the world"
"...on our mountains you will meet the biggest grizzles of the planet"
"...in our forests you will feed the most aggressive lions of the jungle", etc. etc.

When we arrived in Praia da Pipa (Rio Grande do Norte) nobody told us anything. We just found ourselves here, for experimenting the fancy ambient of this posh touristic destination and we ended up swimming with dolphins...

During the low tide (which comes twice a day), dolphins come out (50m from the beach) to seek alimentation. What follows is really unique and emotional. The emotions it brings depend a lot on the point of view, you are looking to the scene:

- from the point of view of the fish-to-become-dolphin's-dinner it is nothing less than "macabre". Horrified fish are flying over the water, trying to escape the smily, but fatal for them, dolphin's mouth. I don't know if they see their whole life in front of their eyes, but they definitelly, cannot miss the lusty views of the surrounding spectators.

- from the point of view of the dolphin-to-have-dinner it is just "fun". Flying over the water behind the horrified fish is more like a game than an effort to grab it. Even when the dolphin has it almost in his mouth, instead of eating its dinner at once, it starts playing with it (or torturing it, if you change your point of view, as we said above). It's worth mentioning that dolphins are smily throughout the scene, which indicates a) that they are enjoying their dinner, b) that they are enjoying their game and c) that they know they are being photographed (dolphins are smart, aren't they?)

- from the point of view of the swimmers-to-witness-the-scene it is "whow". Swimming among dolphins at a wonderful sandy beach of Brasil, in the green waters of the Atlantic and sourrounded by a spectacular scenery of sand-dunes and tropical forests is pure luck...

...and it's even more luck that we are not the fish of the above scene!