Dolphins

from "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana . . . . 'there is nothing more beautiful than the dolphin when swimming a few feet below the surface, on a bright day. It is the most elegantly formed and also the quickest fish in salt water; and the rays of the sun striking upon it, in its rapid and changing motions, reflected from the water, made it look like a stray beam from a a rainbow.'

photo taken on a return trip from the Channel Islands