Kayaking Malibu with the Dolphins

January 19th was a beautiful day so we decided we could not waste it and borrowed a couple of Kayaks from some friends and headed down to Malibu pier. I helped Heather and Ben and Kyle get out and they got hit my a small wave. Heather took the brunt of it but they straightened out and headed out to see. Then I pulled up my kayak which is a little too small for me due to my abundance of self. I waited for the sets to come through and climbed on. I paddled twice and fell over. Luckily the wave was on the way out and and it was only 2 feet deep. I climbed right back on and headed out to sea. Debi missed my graceful bail out and recovery and caught me on film as I remounted and headed out to catch Heather and Ben. If you notice, Kyle did not want to be on that kayak. He settled down and enjoyed the ride once he was out there. While we were out a pod of about 10 dolphins came by in pairs. They would go under the water about the time they were with in 20 or so feet of the kayaks and either go right under us or to one side and resurface about 50 feet past us. I only had my small digital camera with me and tried to not tip over while taking some pictures. I posted the best shot I had of a pair coming up just behind and off the side of Heather. Kyle calls them Whales. He was only about 25 feet from them and got a great view of these magnificent mammals as they said hi and went on by up the coast.  We started to follow for a bit but I knew we would have a hard time keeping up so we returned to the pier and finish a cruise by the beach and rocks just of shore and then landed safely on shore. What a beautiful day and fortunate opportunity we had. Heather and Ben and Kyle went for a walk down the beach to the rocks and tide pools and played for a while and then came back and dug holes in the sand.