A group of early rising kayakers were given a welcome shock as they took to Sydney’s Harbour this morning, when they were greeted by more than just a sunrise.
Tim Griffiths, owner of Cockatoo Tours, was escorting a group on a sunrise paddle on Monday morning in the waters off Birchgrove in hope of a picturesque display in the sky.
However, what actually welcomed the kayakers was far more unexpected – more than making up for an underwhelming sunrise.
“I looked up and all of a sudden saw some fins coming up from the water and there was a pod of dolphins, probably around 10 of them,” Mr Griffiths said.
“I’ve been running these tours for around a year now and have been paddling in the area for around five years and have never seen so many dolphins out this far before,”
The quick-thinking tour guide immediately pulled out his phone and captured the magical moment, as the dolphins danced through the water ahead of them.
“To have a pod like that this far up is apparently extremely rare, so it was very special – and great for the tourists,” he added.
“It was a pretty non-eventful sunrise, there was a lot of cloud cover and didn’t have many colours at all, but the dolphins really made up for that, it was really quite special.”
The dolphins were spotted swimming up the Parramatta River, close to Cockatoo Island and west of Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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