As their food sources move around the sea and inland waterways, the dolphins are there. In late summer, early fall we find them up in the small creeks feeding on small schooling bait fish and other times in the inlets or open ocean.

We have ocean or outside dolphins and inside or back water dolphins.  Additionally, of these two groups there are resident and migratory animals. Strand feeding is just one technique or method they use to catch fish and is only common in the South Carolina Lowcountry. The experts know that only the locals but not all locals use this method. Studies show that young animals had to have learned it from their parents and then will carry on the technique, teaching their own offspring. It is exciting to see but then just being out there with the dolphin is a treat, whether you're witnessing strand feeding animals or following along with them, behind the shrimp boats,  as they feed on the fish which get scooped up by the nets. They join the fish inside the net, but are big and strong enough to swim back out the front and surface right beside our boat.  We realize we are well accepted when they allow us to stay with them as they feed along the food rich tidelines in the creeks and rivers

Dolphin activity in late summer is at its highest because of  the amount of food in the water.  On our dolphin tours, we head out for dolphin photo ops in various locations along the banks of the lowcountry coastal waters. But the Dolphin are a part of all tours and we will take time to be with them when the opportunity is there.  Notice the different scarring on each Dolphin in the closeup images, as you look through- Life certainly is not easy for these amazing mammals!