as he has previously seen them feeding in the water<\/a>, and decided to paddle out \u201cas quickly as we could towards the splashes\u201d to get a closer look.<\/p>\nHowever, as he came closer to reaching the source, he soon realised that it was not what he first thought.<\/p>\n
Peter told DevonLive: \u201cWe paddled out as quickly as we could towards the splashes, and I reached them after about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was clear as I got nearer that this was a large pod of about 30 highly active dolphins, who were feeding on the large shoal of bass in that area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey chased the shoal very aggressively, constantly breaking the surface and making a lot of noise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peter said he has been lucky enough to have been kayaking with dolphins before but has never seen them feeding in this way.<\/p>\n
He stayed with them for around 20 minutes, capturing the incredible sight on video while keeping his distance so as not to disturb the pod of dolphins.<\/p>\n
\u201cA few times they came right towards me and were on either side,\u201d Peter said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just put the paddle down and watched. I took a couple of videos but mainly just enjoyed the amazing spectacle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were constantly moving, and I ended up two-and-a-half miles offshore, and they were then chasing the shoal away further out to sea.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just watched them speed away, jumping constantly. The pod had a number of younger dolphins as well as the larger ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peter added: \u201cIt was a truly amazing experience, and such a privilege to be able to see these stunning creatures feeding in this way.<\/p>\n
\u201cEarlier this week I had a young seal swim all around me, inches below my kayak. So you just never know what you\u2019re going to experience out in the bay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were reportedly around 30 dolphins in totalDolphins feeding off the coast of Budleigh in Devon A kayaker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[22189,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-682379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-east-devon","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682379","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=682379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}