{"id":240173,"date":"2025-10-25T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240173\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:58:06","slug":"kayakers-have-incredible-encounter-with-dolphin-in-firth-of-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240173\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayakers have &#8216;incredible&#8217; encounter with dolphin in Firth of Forth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A group of kayakers say they had an &#8220;incredible surprise&#8221; when a curious dolphin swam beside them as they paddled under the Forth Rail Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The group captured footage of the mammal in the Firth of Forth near Inchgarvie Island on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It interacted with several of the kayaks and even popped its head up to have a look at them for about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">One of the kayakers, Hugo Foley, told the BBC the experience was &#8220;an incredible reminder of how lucky we are to share these waters with such amazing wildlife&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">After filming the moment on his phone, he posted the video on social media and the clip garnered more than 500,000 views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Foley said: &#8220;People have loved seeing this unexpected wildlife encounter right on our doorstep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We were stunned in the best way possible when the unexpected visitor, interacted and swam in between us all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It was an incredible surprise, the dolphin appeared alongside our kayaks for a short while before heading back out toward the Firth of Forth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We frequently spot seals in the area, but dolphin sightings are very rare, so this was a really special moment for everyone involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of kayakers say they had an &#8220;incredible surprise&#8221; when a curious dolphin swam beside them as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-240173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}