Short fragment:
I am on a fairly large ship, looking over the rail at the water, which is 10 or 15 feet below me.
I see a pod of dolphins swimming past -- slowly and quite close to the ship's hull. Their fins are quite obvious against the water, and I sometimes see the shape of the rest of their bodies.
Excited, I scamper to a lower deck. Here, there is a large window looking out at the water. The surface of the water is perhaps 1/4 of the way up the window.
The dolphins are still passing the ship -- left to right. I see their absolute black dorsal fins on (I think) most of them, and occasionally the dolphin's back reaches the surface so I can just see the entire fin. Except for the intervening glass, I could reach out and touch them they are so close.
One of them swims very close to the glass and raises his (pretty sure it's a him, but might be mistaken) head above the water. Which allows him to look into the ship. I can see his right eye very clearly -- it's a mottled light brown, which I find surprising. I hope that he's looking at me as I look at him, but I don't know if he does -- or even whether he can, given the reflectivity of the glass. He lowers his head and swims away.
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