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After a bit they were tired
of us and went on there way except for about three dolphins. These three stayed with us
for a very long time. I sat on the edge of the boat mesmerized by these beautiful Angels
of the Sea. I wanted to be in the
water with them. I ached for this, little did I know it would be many years from now but
my wish would come true.
Shortly thereafter
my family had to move to the desert. I was devastated to say the least, I really loved the
ocean and could not understand why we had to leave. I adjusted to the desert after about
two years. I am still here. I realize, I am now and always have been where I am supposed
to be. As a teenager I decided I was going to work at Sea World with the "Killer
Whales". I desperately wanted to swim with those whales. This never came about. Many
years ago I heard of Sea World offering swimming with dolphins. I was really excited about
this but thought the money issue would prevent me from doing it. The more I read about it
the more I realized what I really wanted was to swim in the open ocean with
"wild" dolphins. How this would happen I had no idea, so I just dreamed about it
for many years.
Then it happened in the fall of
1998. I was inquiring about workshops on animal communicating and in the brochure there
was information for Dolphin and Whale trips. I felt an excitement rumbling, maybe this is
it. I called the number, getting an answering machine. Well, I did not hear back for two
months and needless to say I had decided this must not be for me. I finally received a
call and had a wonderful uplifting long conversation with Toni. She was overwhelmed with
joy about her experience the previous summer. She gave me the basic information about the
trip I was interested in. It was going to be a trip leaving Fort Lauderdale, Florida by
boat and going to the island of Bimini. The trip was for one full week and once you got on
the boat, you stayed on the boat. I had never spent that much money on a trip and by
myself no less. I have never left my family, husband and two children, for that long. My
children were teenagers so they really would be OK without me. But my dogs, what about my
dogs? I could find many reasons why not to leave for a week (money being the BIGGEST
reason).
I felt an overwhelming draw to go. Toni gave me the name of the person I needed to contact
if I was truly interested so I could be guaranteed a spot on the boat. I had heard about
manifesting money, and now I had an opportunity to utilize these principles. So I made the
next call. Once again, I left messages and did not hear back. I was wondering how much of
a struggle this was going to be. On December 31, 1998 ,New Years Eve, I was meditating in
the morning and I asked the dolphins for an invitation. Toni had told me that the dolphins
"invite" you. I prayed for an answer about going on this trip, was it the right
thing for me to do or not? I also wanted a specific invitation, yes or no from the
dolphins. I wondered how this would come about. I was a bit skeptical. At that moment the
phone rang. I always ignore the phone when in meditation. The rest of my family were still
sleeping. Then the phone rang again, this time Larry, my husband, called out to me from
down the hall "Gayle, it’s the Dolphin people".
I HAD MY
INVITATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 19:
I am looking so
forward to this trip. Today while in an exercise class I was overwhelmed with the feeling
of the presence of the dolphins I will be encountering, I was actually crying. I just know
I will receive some kind of healing from these Angels of the Sea.
May 19:
Today I had a
channeling with Wes Jolly. The angels speaking through him said the dolphins are waiting
for ME, looking forward to my healing touch. One in particular, a female, is in need of
healing and I will be assisting to heal her. This blows me away. I was just thinking they
were going to heal me. I am honored. I feel an urgency to complete my Reiki Master
training, within a few days I do.
June 20: (5 days
before my trip) Channeling from the Dolphins.
" We await your
arrival with great joy. Yes, we have asked you to come. You touched us with your pure love
as you watched us from your sailboat many years ago. We have waited for you to come into
our home and be with us. We bring you great love as we feel this love from you. You will
bond with one greatly. It is ones like you who will encourage us to continue our work, to
stay here and continue to heal this planet. We have become discouraged at times yet now
there are more and more of you bringing us love and this encourages our dolphin healers to
continue their purpose as you, too, follow yours. You need not be in the water, flesh to
flesh, for the energy exchange to occur yet this will so greatly enhance your experience.
You are a very special one."
Wow.........I can
not wait!!!
Friday June 25:
I am writing this
from the plane on my way to Florida. I just looked out the window. What a beautiful,
breathtaking sight. We are flying over clouds that look like soft pillow beds of white
landscape. We are passing these clouds so quickly. The most gorgeous rock formations are
beneath me. What a beautiful beginning to this life-changing journey. I feel so strongly
this is just the beginning. This earth is so beautiful. The clouds are flat on the
underneath side as though there is an invisible sheet of glass they are resting on. Above
this sheet of glass are rolling fields of white foam. I can feel myself climbing through
these formations of untouched works of God’s beauty. I feel so privileged to be up
here flying among the angels.
"I know this
trip is for healing, but as a woman asked me yesterday.........what am I going to be
healed of? Will you speak to me about this?"
Guides: "Yes,
Gayle, we would love to. This experience is to bring you to the core of who you really
are, to see the beauty in yourself. As you find love and beauty in this world in which you
are living now you will experience these things from your very core. We can tell you over
and over what a beautiful, magnificent being you are yet we want you to actually
experience this, feeling it in every particle of your being. Yes, you will be able to then
more freely assist others to experience this in themselves. We are so pleased that you are
opening to all these experiences. We truly love and admire your choices. You are a chosen
one for many great things. This is a time and place for you, your own healing.
"What am I
chosen for?"
Guides: "Ah, we
think you know but we will humor you with saying it again. Your soul in this human shell
needs much encouragement. You are a chosen one and yet you feel it is
"unhealthy" to think of yourself as special, unique, one of great power to heal
others yet these things you are, Gayle. You are chosen, you have chosen to
give of yourself freely to love all and your desire to give these beautiful feelings to
others is why you are a great one. You are a leader, leading many down a path of Peace,
Love, and Joy. Yes, these are your chosen words."
"Why does this
make me feel a bit uncomfortable? How can you say such loving things about me? I feel like
I am writing what I want to be told."
Guides: "This
is part of your human experience. So even if you chose these words are they not beautiful?
Why is it not OK to speak lovingly of oneself? So no matter who says these things
about you, they are beautiful and true words. Open up, let them sink in for you are these
things. Gayle, you are a beautiful soul!
Saturday, June 26
I AM HERE!!!!!!!!!!!
This day has finally arrived. The day I’ve been dreaming of for six months now, maybe
longer. Last night I met Sierra (our group coordinator) at the front desk. I was so
excited to meet her I just hugged her. Smiling, she said to me "Who are you
anyway?" I think I need to hold back a bit, not be so excited and overbearing. Can
you confirm this for me?
Guides: "BE WHO
YOU ARE, EXPRESS YOUR LOVE! DO NOT HOLD BACK!
We have been given
our room assignments. I like my roommate. This is going to be great. We are given the
rules. The big one is NO TOUCHING the dolphins. I am disappointed yet understand. It seems
that if we do touch them they will go away. We are also told that it is the dolphins
choice if and when they want to hang around us in the water. We are in their space and we
need to respect them. I envisioned being a dolphin and feeling what it would be like to
have a human’s arms flinging around me and touching me. I related it to me being in
the water with an octopus and its tentacles flinging around me and touching me. I now
understand this rule and will respect it.
Saturday p.m.:
I had a very nice
day. The boat ride over was very pleasant. I got to know a lot of the people on the boat.
The food is great. We did not see any dolphins today but I am confident we will tomorrow.
We all shared a little about ourselves tonight. Everybody on this trip is so cool and very
interesting. There are even two dogs on the boat that live here all the time. One is a
beagle and the others is a miniature German shepherd. I want to thank you, my guides. I am
so grateful for your assistance in helping me be here.
Sunday June 27,
I just woke up from
a wonderful sleep. I am going to the 7:30 morning meditation today. I am so glad to be
here. I need to pinch myself.
We went snorkeling
this morning over the Bimini Ruins. They are said to be a road that once led to Atlantis.
Had a very nice conversation with one of the other passengers today, felt a great
connection. I am currently sitting on the upper deck on a low chair looking out over the
Caribbean Sea. There is pure blue ocean to my left and in front of me, to my right, is the
island of Bimini. There are a few people snorkeling in the water below. The air
temperature is just perfect with a slight breeze. The water temperature is absolutely
wonderful at about 83 degrees. It is a bit overcast right now. I am so blessed to have
this time of introspection and realization, I feel so fortunate to have this gift, this
lovely experience. Thank you for helping me to create this for myself. It is almost like a
dream and soon will become only a memory.
Guides: : Gayle, you
think it will only be a memory because you view time as linear. Do not view time this way
and you will then carry this time and place with you forever."
Later in the afternoon: WE FOUND THE
DOLPHINS! I was the second one off the boat! I was so excited that I was breathing too
hard, shaking, maybe hyperventilating. There were four dolphins. I was so close to one of
the dolphins I could have touched him with my face. The rule of "No touching"
was very hard to obey but I did. I held my hands to my side. These creatures are gorgeous.
After a bit we went on the bow of the boat. We all laid on our stomachs with our hands
over the bow (cameras too) and watched the dolphins as we gave them a bow ride. It was so
exhilarating to get to watch them up close and coming up for breath so quickly using that
adorable blow hole. The dolphins kept turning side to side to look at us. (their eyes are
on the side of their heads so it was a bit hard for them to look up). We could almost
reach down to touch them. We later ran into about ten of them but when we got in the water
they went away. A wonderful first day, more to come!
After dinner Sierra
shared her spiritual path and manifesting with us. Then I sat around talking with some
others. We were discussing the energy healing of Reiki. I along with another person on the
boat gave a sample of this energy flow to the others. I am enjoying the people connections
as well as the dolphin connections I am having.
Monday June 28:
We had a wonderful
full day. We headed out for dolphins after breakfast but none came to us so we then
dropped anchor near the Bimini Island beach. I swam to the beach and stayed there for
about two hours. I think I was in heaven. The sand is the most gorgeous pearly white. It
is a bit more course than the sand I am used to, actually it consists of very tiny crushed
sea shells. I collected a few conches, the beach is full of them ( and to think I have
bought these in the States). The water is an iridescent blue, like none I have ever seen
before and so warm at 83 degrees today. I took a walk down the beach and sat at the edge
of the water, alone. It is so hard to put into words what I was feeling. The air
temperature was absolutely perfect as I sat in my bathing suit. There was a gentle breeze
blowing enough so I could hear the gentle rustle of the palm trees behind me. Soft white
clouds scattered in the blue sky. The water gently splashed up onto my feet as I gazed out
into the vast open sea. I was totally alone in this paradise as I pondered how can there
be such a place on this earth while at this very moment others were dealing with the
hustle and bustle of the crowded cites......... How was it that I was so blessed to be
here experiencing this. Was I in heaven? I just sat and soaked it all in. I wanted to
carry this moment with me forever and be able to come back anytime I want to.
Back to the boat I
swam to another delicious gourmet lunch, thanks to Erica our chef. After lunch a few of us
got a bit hot and we jumped off the upper deck (we kind of snuck this one in because I
don’t think we were supposed to). What a thrill.....it was at least ten feet from the
water. Then we were of f for the search again. We found some dolphins and played a bit. We
then moved on to search for more. The next group of dolphins we came upon were babies.
What a thrill! I was so excited and so close to one in particular that my right hand
reached out to touch this dolphin. Just as it did, my left hand grabbed my right hand and
pulled it back. Oh, this is a hard rule but we must obey it or the dolphins will swim
away. All of a sudden April yells out, "There is a sick dolphin!" It was an
older female. I immediately began sending Reiki healing energy in the water to her. I
broke out in goose bumps all over as I remembered the words I had heard almost two months
prior from the channeling I received from Wes, "There is one in particular that
awaits your healing, a female" Whoa, was I blown away. As we got out of the water
from the bow of the boat Raphael, April and I sent Reiki healing to her. Now I understood,
it was not just me there to heal the dolphins but all of us, The dolphins receive from us
as we receive from them "the circle of love energy". Oh, I am so blessed to be
experiencing this.
We saw a male
dolphin with his right fin just a stub and scars on his back. We named him Sparky. Raphael
channeled it was a shark fight from long ago. Back in the water some babies came to check
us out, they were about one year old. These young ones were so playful and very trusting.
A bit later some older ones came by to watch the little ones. The more playful we were,
the more interactive they were with us. It was totally exhilarating. I dove a lot and was
getting pretty tired out. I guess I was in the water for quite a while. There were all in
all ten dolphins. The older ones stayed back a bit, letting the younger ones play with us
up close. Then it was as if the older said "OK, that’s enough, it is time to
leave now". I watched as they all swam away in a group going down deep. We could
always see the bottom, being that it was only 30 feet deep and the water so clear. The
older ones surrounded the younger ones and then I saw an older dolphin tap one of the
young ones back with her nose. I knew they were not coming back to swim with us, except
for maybe a bow ride. They love these bow rides.
I got out my angel
cards today. I did some readings for a few people and tonight a few of us did a Reiki
healing for one of the crew who had a migraine. Had a long conversation with a new friend
tonight. Thank you again for this wonderful experience. I am truly blessed.
Tuesday, June 29
This morning at 2:00
a.m., the start of the engine woke me up, we were moving. I went out to see the full moon.
What a beauty it was. A storm was blowing in very quickly, dark black clouds soon covered
the moon. It was as if we were racing to get away from the storm. We moved for abut an
hour. Our boat had been rocking quite a bit all night, up until we moved to this new spot
which was very calm. Our captain really knows this place and takes great care of us. I got
up this morning around 6:00 a.m. My roommate and I are the only ones out here on the
second deck. It is a very peaceful morning.
We had a great day!
I laid out on the deck while we looked for dolphins this morning. We did not come into
contact with any so we went to the Great Isaac, a small uninhabited island.. We anchored
near it. Everybody that went to this island went in the dingy except my roommate and I. We
decided to swim over. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I was a bit nervous
because the water out here was so dark and deep that I could not see the bottom and I was
fighting the current. I finally made it and felt great about doing it. This is a cool
little island. There is an old light house on it and an abandoned building. At one time
people had lived here. The island is so small that we walked the whole thing in a matters
of minutes. We all enjoyed exploring it. I found some pretty cool shells and an old coin.
Got to talk to Erica, our chef. She is such a nice person and what a wonderful gourmet
chef. She told us about what it is like living on a boat all the time.
After lunch we found
dolphins! We swam with them for quite a long time. I kept diving, so needless to say, I
was getting worn out. I have to say though I did not notice the fatigue until I got out of
the water. I had the most wonderful experience with the dolphins today. One dolphin swam
next to me for a while, he slowed way down, we were swimming side by side so close that I
could have reached out and touched him. He was looking right at me with his left eye as I
was looking at him. It was as if we were communicating. All of a sudden I realized I
needed to breath, I looked up, I saw the surface was way up there. I made a mad dash for
the top and burst through the surface of the water, gasping for air. Then the tears came.
I felt so wonderful from that eye to eye contact. I felt such great love. I hope the
dolphin felt the love from me, too. I find I am getting frustrated that I have to breath.
Why can’t I just stay under water?
We did bow rides and
got back into the water off and on all afternoon. It was exhilarating. While on the bow we
saw Sparky again. I wonder how many of the same dolphins we see every day yet we
don’t know it is them. How wonderful that we can distinguish Sparky from the others.
The most wonderful sight, a baby about two months old, was learning to bow ride. She was
so adorable! The baby swam between two adult dolphins at all times and they would weave in
and out of the bow water with her. A funny thing, just as I and one other person on the
boat were asking how do these dolphins mate.........well, two of the dolphins proceeded to
show us, right in front of us. Can they hear our every thought?
Tonight I gave a
friend (they are all my friends now) a full Reiki healing. What a beautiful end to a
beautiful day.
Wednesday, June 30:
Another great day
although we did not have any dolphin swims today. While we were trailing, looking for
dolphins I got out my angel cards and did a few readings for some of the other passengers
on the boat. We snorkeled at the coral reef, Bimini Ruins. I saw the most beautiful fish
of many brilliant colors. As we were traveling to go and dock at the island of Bimini a
storm blew in. I stood out in the rain with a couple of the others. It was wonderful to
feel this rain pouring down on us and not be cold. I had been living in my bathing suit so
it did not matter if I got wet. We ate lunch on the boat while docked, than after lunch it
was off to the "Big City" (this is a very small island). First stop was the
straw market. I bought a few items, then one of the natives on the island asked me if I
wanted my hair braided. I was so excited because I have been wanting to do this to my hair
for a long time but could not find anyone to do it for me. My hair was braided into 22
braids with blue and gold beads. It felt great! It did take awhile though. I can’t
wait to walk off the plane when I get home and see the faces on my family. I walked around
the island with Catherine and we went to the beach on the other side of the island. We
were followed by a stray native island dog. He would not come very close to us but he
followed us for a long way.
One of the
passengers on the boat told me he had a dream about me. He said in the dream I was
standing on the side edge of the boat with the white background of the boat behind me and
my hair was a very brilliant, vibrant purple. He said it was also curly.
We are all going
into town tonight to check out the night life (ha, ha). A lot of us went to a night club,
if you can call it that, and some were dancing. Apparently this is the place to meet on
Wednesday nights. We met passengers and crew members of other boats that are out here this
week, too. They have not had any dolphin encounters yet. Wow, I did not realize how
fortunate we have been.
Thursday, July 1:
I was up early
today, our last day of swimming. We stayed docked all night. As I am sitting here,
journaling on the second deck, we have discovered an upside down rainbow (smiling). There
is another rainbow, very large, connected to this rainbow yet right side up. I have never
seen anything like it. I hope my picture comes out. We all prayed together at breakfast
this morning to send dolphins to the other boats out here so that they may have a
wonderful encounter with dolphins as we had.
Just before lunch:
I just got out of
the water, Sierra kept saying some awesome encounters are going to happen. She felt they
were going to happen today. We found dolphins almost immediately this morning. There were
tons of them all over. There were even bottle nose dolphins. I will explain about the
bottle nose. I was the first one in the water. I had seven or eight dolphins swimming all
around me. I was so overwhelmed with emotion that I was crying. Crying is hard to do with
a face mask and holding your breath under water. The feeling I had was indescribable.
After a bit we got out of the water. We weren’t out but maybe three minutes and they
came again. Back in the water. There were dolphins everywhere. There were twenty maybe
thirty all around us. As I looked down the bottom was full of dolphins, like an army
swimming somewhere. Then some of the bottle nose dolphins came up close to us. What
beautiful creatures. All week we had been swimming with spotted dolphins. The spotted
dolphins are smaller and from what I am told more curious and friendly, so these are the
open ocean dolphins that choose to swim with humans. The bottle nose dolphins are much
larger and stronger (flippers). One of the bottle nose dolphins swam straight at me nose
to nose, very slowly, as we stared straight into each other’s eye. He made a bleep
noise at me as he came so close we almost touched noses. Sierra had a purple scarf that
she was playing with the dolphins with. They would take it, swim away and then bring it
back to her. They told her to take the scarf back to Costa Rica where she is
living/swimming with dolphins that are not as used to us humans yet and bring the message
back to those dolphins that we humans are OK to swim with and have fun with (in Costa Rica
she is also having wonderful encounters with whales). Everyone was so elated about this
encounter. I had no idea how rare this was to swim with bottle nose. One of the
ship’s captains told us that in the twenty years they have been running these trips
only one other time had there been an encounter with the bottle nose.
You see, the bottle
nose are the dolphins you will find in places like Sea World. These dolphins are stronger
and have a better chance of surviving in captivity whereas the spotted dolphins die in
captivity. Large numbers of the bottle nose dolphins have been captured by humans and
taken from their home, the sea. Therefore the bottle nose dolphins are less likely to
trust us humans. This is why we were so honored to have had this awesome encounter.
We were radioed by
one of the other boats that they had a wonderful encounter with dolphins that morning. Our
prayer was answered. We were also blessed with a wonderful encounter ourselves. We are
resting a bit now to prepare for this afternoon, MORE DOLPHINS!
At about 3:00 this
afternoon we went looking for the dolphins. There was a storm blowing in and we could see
lightning in the distance. We found dolphins and this time I was the second one in the
water. We played for 45 minutes. One dolphin came up to me and while looking at me face to
face she clicked at me three times. Dolphins were swimming all around me and around all of
us. I watched as two dolphins swam side by side flapping their side fines together, they
were having as much fun as we were. The crew made us get out of the water because it was
getting rough. The crew took such good care of us and our safety was their number one
concern. These dolphins followed us for a very long time. We were all cheering very loudly
as they did beautiful jumps for us as though showing off. They had to have heard us and
felt our enthusiastic joy and love we all felt for them. There was so much love and joy in
the air.
Later as we sat
around reveling in our joy, Sierra passed around the purple scarf and had each of us put
our love and energy into it for the dolphins in Costa Rica. I am sad that it is almost
over, we go home tomorrow, although I am very eager to be back with my family. I am
beginning to miss them, Larry, Jenny, Chris and my dogs Shane and Libby.
Friday July 2:
I woke up at 7:00
a.m. this morning to the sound of the engines. We have begun the crossing back to
civilization. I am packed and ready to get back home. I have had such a wonderful
experience on this trip. I feel close to so many people here. I thought I would be really
sad that it is all over but I am not. My thoughts are now on getting home to be with my
family and I can’t wait to get there. I called home and everything went well,- thanks
to a lot of help from my mother.
Home coming was
wonderful! I was so happy to be with everyone
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