I’ve wanted to swim with wild dol­phins ever since I can remem­ber. I went through a petu­lant teen­age denial of this when swim­ming with dol­phins sud­denly became a fash­ion­able life dream to pos­sess. This period didn’t last long – my dream was too big to be con­tained through con­trar­i­ness and it per­sisted like an itch that needed scratch­ing all through my twen­ties. By the time I was in my thirties it was vir­tu­ally at obses­sion level. Con­tinue read­ing →