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More from Flipper

Flipper, our friendly local, also revelled in the south coast fishing action. Mackerel and maasbanker on the menu

More from Flipper

Well he is back and at his his usual playful self, as our resident dolphin un-aptly named Flipper, keeps swinging, er swimming by, to say Ahoy! He has been hanging ace out off Umtentweni and Port Shepstone for a number of years now. Actually not completely alone, there is also a Skua Bird that seems to like the same neighbourhood?! Flipper comes and goes with the seasons and the sardines, but when he is around, we can have a chat every day we launch.

Flipper (sorry!) loves to hang out and even get a free feed. he knows we have juicy fresh jube-jube mackerel in our live well and can be quite insistent. He is so tame he will eat from your hand! Jumping in with him on a clean day, he really gets interactive…chatting and clicking and squeaking away.

Now we just need to teach him to take us to the fish!

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Who named him Flipper?

Who named him Flipper?

Not sure, but that’s his name, and he made another guest appearance during a fishing trip we were on a few days back.

This dolphin guy has been living in the waters off Port Shepstone for quite some time now. He is super social – loves a chat and a sardine.

We have jumped in with him a number of times, and often he will come and grab a sardine right from out of your hand. This day he was a little camera shy though, but you get the picture.

Why he hangs out alone is open to speculation but yeah, sometimes individuals are expelled from a dolphin clan.

Or maybe he just had enough of the rat race and moved out into the wilderness.

Right close to the savage humans?!

His old clan must think he is crazy!

More about Flipper here…