Newborn dolphin Nov. 18

As Mohawk and his family played around us excitedly I suspected something was happening that was fabulous and so it turns out a newborn baby was the celebration.
Here are my photos of the new baby , Mohawk who has healed so beautifully from his injury, see previous blogs , and of a mother carrying something in her mouth, which does not appear to be a fish.

here are the photos to go with our post on texbird

the kisskadee chases the bird but he slips thru the tree and hopefully he will stay around.
I hope.

Another Jelly fish wish day and here is the teddy we found floating in the bay yesterday

With Autumn and Bill from Atlanta on board today for their own private dolphin tour we were blessed with this wonderful playtime with Mohawk and his family. Woo hoooooooooooooo the little care bear was floating in the bay and we helped him out and now he is in the land of care a lot....

Mohawk is healing. We were not sure this baby would make it and it is still in a fragile state. I took this photo on Aug. 20th. If you look at his other photo on this blog you can see the healing process taking place. It is amazing he has survived.

odd heron photos

odd heron

Casita de Colley

top two photos are the front doors to the kitchen living area


here is the guest bath with my dancing with tile mosaic and blue guest room

Jabiru and our new house photos

Today we drove out past Raymondsville to see this long awaited Jabiru. See more better photos at wildsnap.com

Hurricane Dolly and injured baby dolphin

We survived Hurricane Dolly. She had a mind of her own and found a way to gain strength before giving up to the forces of tierra firma. We had the eye wall for hours pound us and Dolly did damage. Here are a few photos I have taken recently. The teddy bear was lying alone outside as we drove around looking at the damage. I just felt this photo summed up just how everyone is feeling right now. We saw two shrimp boats that sailed off like ghost ships in the storm. They ended up under the Queen Isabella Causeway. The photos of the baby dolphin with the massive injury on its head and dorsal fin were taken before the storm. This baby may survive but must be in terrible pain. Perhaps the injury came from a gill net incidence or it was struck by a boat. We are not sure. I have not seen the baby and his mother since the storm. The cow we found stuck in the mud before the storm. She was drowning and we put her head up on a bucket. The owners were located but could not get her out. She could not be saved. The sealife center sign blew down and did some major damage to part of the roof but we are opening tomorrow. We are glad Dolly decided to move on when she did. We took a beating but nothing time and new construction won't fix. We had a generator going at the center to keep all the sealife safe.