Comments on: Documentary: The Cove http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=4761 Creative Discussions, Inspiring Thoughts, Fun Adventures, Love & Laughter, Peaceful Travel, Hip Fashions, Cool People, Gastronomic Pleasures, Exotic Indulgences, Groovy Music, and more! Wed, 09 Nov 2016 11:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Al http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=4761#comment-6689 Al Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:41:50 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.com/?p=4761#comment-6689 Hi Michelle,
I too loved to watch Flipper as a kid. I have been to where they filmed the show in the Florida keys while here on vacation with the family. They said they used 7 dolphin, each having it’s own trick, like dolphin stuntmen and stand-ins.
Misty was the name of the dolphin that did that thing where she would get up on her tail, out of the water and go backwards for about 25 feet.
I got to pet one of the flippers and fed him some fish, my brothers got to swim with them and get towed by holding on to their dorsal fin, I was to young then to get in the water with the dolphins :(

They seemed to be treated well,they were kept fenced in pens in the ocean. Like jail cells for dolphins. All the pens were attached to a wooden dock. They were not very big.

Dolphins always look like they are smiling, but they couldn’t have been very happy, living in captivity. They seemed to like children and are very gentle with them. They seem to know.

At that age I didn’t think of the dolphins as prisoners, longing to be free. They looked happy, they were always smiling.

Now they don’t even have a clean ocean to live in, or healthy food to eat. I read the TAO’s comments on how filthy the ocean is.
Remember that that huge mass of plastics and other junk(twice the size of Texas) I blogged in about. Our oceans seem to be a convienent garbage can.

I had a buddy who worked at the Miami Seaquarium as a maintenance diver, he loved his job there. He also had negative views of the animals treatment and living conditions.

Al

]]> By: HOWIE http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=4761#comment-6686 HOWIE Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:42:26 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.com/?p=4761#comment-6686 To Whom It May Concern: Thank you for not screwing with my computer today. All weekend it was bewitched — It had a mind of its own.

I was close to throwing my computer down the garbage chute, It drove me nuts for two day doing things I have never seen in 20 years of computer use.

This morning I booted up and everything came back to normal. I feel like I was in the ‘Twilight Zone’ and made it out intact.

My computer is how I reach out and accomplish many chores, as well as blogging and e-mailing friends since I am disabled.

I appreciate having my baby back. Thank you, whomever you are.

HOWIE

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