The Entrance to Discovery Cove. Look carefully and the logo is of someone swimming with a dolphin (*DC)
Discovery Cove is an annex park to Sea World, where you get the chance to have a dolphin interaction. The park consists of nice sandy beaches surrounding several lagoons and pools. There is a fresh water lagoon, a coral reef lagoon, a shark pool, a ray pool and the dolphin encounter lagoon.
I did the "Trainer for a Day", which included three separate interactions with the dolphins and also behind the scenes look at what the animal trainers actually do (its not all fun and games). We were shown around by Trainer Andi, who took many of the photos below.
I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I enjoyed the day.
The Entrance to Discovery Cove. Look carefully and the logo is of someone
swimming with a dolphin (*DC)
The sandy beach at the Cove
The Shark Pool
Basking sharks waiting to be fed
Feeding the sharks (*TA)
The Coral Reef Lagoon
Tropical fish and rays in the Coral Reef Lagoon
Rays in the Ray pool
Becoming acquainted with Bossa (*TA)
Bossa performing (*TA)
Bossa showing off (*TA)
Playing with Roxy (*DC)
Swimming with Roxy (*DC)
High speed ride (*TA)
Final farewell
*DC - Official Discovery Cove photo (copyright paid for).
*TA - Photos taken by Trainer Andi (our guide for the day).
For further details about Discovery Cove please visit their web
site at www.discoverycove.com
Also look at the Sea World web site at www.seaworld.com
© Andrew Grasemann
All photos are copyright to Andrew Grasemann and are for personal use only.