If you want to commune with animals as or more intelligent than you, well, you can hang out with your dog (ha!) OR you can make your way down to Mexico and swim with the dolphins. in fact, for a mere $165 Cabo Dolphins will let you swim for a full half-hour with one of seven Blue-Nose dolphins. The mammals are all named for painters, which rely makes a lot of sense when you think about it because, well, um, because…OK, that’s just kind of silly. So West Coast.
Anyway, the experience is said to be lots of fun, if exploitative to your fellow intelligent mammals. Oh, and just to add to the silliness quotient, you have to wear a flotation device. Then you have to sit there among a herd of other flabby tourists and wait your turn before going in the water. You know, at first I thought this was neat, now I think it smacks of stupid American tricks. All I can think about are the poor dolphins all corralled up so obese, margarita-swilling, non-Spanish-speaking Americans can float with them for a minute and ogle at how cute and “smart they seem”. And the fact this place is in Mexico doesn’t help my bad impression.