Field Trip: Marine Life in Galveston, Texas

 Galveston, Texas is an amazing place to see marine wildlife.  We've seen jellyfish, dolphins, sea birds, flounder, crabs - beach combing is wonderful - even watching the birds bobbing up and down in the water is pretty awesome.

This time, we took a boat into the bay and saw dolphins.  We saw dolphins do something I've never seen them do before.  They caught a flounder and kept flipping it up into the air to each other, recatching it.  We happened to be in the harbor when it was raining and saw several dolphins jumping out of the water over and over again.  They do that to get a different view above water - check for predators, look for food, etc.

Here's some pictures of the birds in the harbor.  This is a grey pelican, maybe?  I'm not the best with pelican identification.

They're all sitting on the back of this boat.

White pelicans and a grey pelican?

Dolphins are impossible to photograph, since they just move so quickly, but this was a great picture.  Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin.