Stranded dolphin rescued off Brewster beach | CapeCodOnline.com.
The article refers to this animal as a common dolphin. Granted, we feel the need to name things and I suppose seeing large numbers of anything will make them common in our eyes.  This unfortunate human trait is always pushing us to the next best thing or the next experience. We don’t tend to stand still and take in the moment, and enjoy what we have right now. Growth and progress.
But I digress… Dolphins are an essential part of one of my fondest memories of the Cape. While fishing on the pier at Sesuit harbor a few years back, I wondered why the bass suddenly stopped chasing the popper I was offering to them – it had been a good couple of hours in fisherman’s terms.  A few seconds later I observed a school of 50 to 75 dolphins moving along the shore Westward, almost within reach, a few feet beyond the lobster traps just outside the harbor entrance. This was one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen, ever – these sleek animals cutting in and out of the water, on a waveless morning with an early red sun rising behind them… Not sure what species they were, but to me they were anything but common.
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