{"id":64909,"date":"2025-08-13T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64909\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:34:08","slug":"watch-dolphin-swim-around-lymington-river-in-the-new-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64909\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch dolphin swim around Lymington River in the New Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Lymington resident\u00a0Alvin Robinson, 42, rushed down to get a look at the aquatic mammal when his son Billi, 15, who had been fishing on Bridge Road, saw the dolphin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It had been &#8216;casually&#8217; swimming near Bridge Road at around 6.30pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Alvin said: &#8220;My son Billi was fishing on the bridge and saw the dolphin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He called me, so I went down in my car. He said, &#8216;Dad, you won&#8217;t believe this, there is a dolphin at the bridge&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I left immediately as I was only two minutes\u00a0away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We watched it swim around for about 15 minutes, and it headed out of the harbour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It didn&#8217;t seem distressed was just casually swimming around.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Alvin and his son Billi\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Alvin and his son Billi (Image: Alvin Robinson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25311853.rare-animal-seen-new-forest-absence-decades\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rare animal seen in the New Forest after an absence of decades<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Around 15 others, mainly holidaygoers, joined Alvin and Billi to watch the spectacle, and said it &#8220;made their holiday&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I used to work on the river for 15 years, and it&#8217;s only the second time I&#8217;ve seen a dolphin,&#8221; added Alvin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was great to see, many spectators joined us and watched quietly till it swam away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Billi was absolutely amazed by it all. He&#8217;s\u00a0a keen fisherman and has never seen a dolphin before.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He was very speechless at the time, but can&#8217;t stop talking about it now.\u00a0Definitely something we won&#8217;t forget.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lymington resident\u00a0Alvin Robinson, 42, rushed down to get a look at the aquatic mammal when his son Billi,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-64909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}