Swimming with Free Wild Dolphins in Puerto Vallarta
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Wildlife Connection offers you the opportunity to visit these fabulous animals in their natural environment and to participate in a research project that helps us understand and protect our dolphins here in Puerto Vallarta. Come with us and interact with a Bottlenose pod. Our guides are professional biologists who will share with you their knowledge, making this excursion a once-in-a-lifetime experience! Remember that these dolphins are not confined and this is the NATURAL WAY to observe and enjoy them.
Do not contribute to capturing more dolphins! Visit them in their own environment because FREE DOLPHINS ARE HAPPY DOLPHINS!!!.
Bottled water
NO alcohol beverages
Use of Snorkelling equipment
Granola Bars, small snack
- INFANT: : 0 - 3
- CHILD: : 4 - 11
- ADULT: : 12 - 99
- Face masks required for travellers in public areas
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- No es recomendable para personas de mas de 7 meses de embarazo
- Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Tunel Sanitizante, reduccion del numero de pasajeros a bordo
- Face masks required for travellers in public areas
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- No es recomendable para personas de mas de 7 meses de embarazo
- Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Tunel Sanitizante, reduccion del numero de pasajeros a bordo
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
Κριτικές
Donate and save dolphins, swim with them while you get this limited chance.
Sheryl_B, 08-01-2023
Learning the baby dolphins don't know about jet skis and are being killed. Also, I am proud my grandsons enjoyed the dolphins in the wild more than Sea World! We followed the north pod but one set had babies and none of us could jump in and be close. Only one couple was lucky to be close to the 2 large dolphins that traveled separately. Just the luck if the draw but the sightings were enough. Soon no one will be able to swim with them, as it should be.
Support science and nature while learning and enjoying yourself on an intimate boat swimming alongside dolphins in the wild
Melody S, 08-01-2023
The team were great. Much more intimate experience. Only 10 on our boat. Had a biology lesson first about whales and dolphins, taught by trained marine biologists. If you want to see dolphins and whales in their natural habitat and to swim near and alongside them, this is the ecofriendly way to do it. We were privileged to see whole pods and their babies. Please let me be clear though, if the dolphins don't want you close, they have a choice to move away. We got close enough to here them chattering to eachother but they certainly weren't wanting to interact with us because of their babies. We were also so lucky to see humpback whales too. I must also say we were able to take our own photos and videos and there was no hard sell for photos which was appreciated as I heard from friends who swam with dolphins in captivity, that the photos cost them a fortune. So it all comes down to your conscience, do it the kinder way to nature or risk being as exploited as the dolphins in captivity all for a great picture.
You Will Not Regret Booking This!!
Michelle_M, 07-01-2023
It is my second time doing this tour with wildlife connection and all I can say is WOW! You will not regret booking this excursion. Sansy and Jorje were amazing! You can tell they are really passionate about what they do and they do everything they can to make sure everyone has en enjoyable experience and a close encounter with the dolphins. Swimming with the dolphins was EXHILARATING. They get so close, swimming in circles around you looking right at your face as they go around. It is definitely in the top 5 coolest experiences in my life. It's wonderful to see companies that support interacting with these beautiful creatures in their natural habitat while always respecting the wildness of the dolphins.
Thank you again for a wonderful experience!!
Thank you again for a wonderful experience!!
A great time and we found...
Gretchen_P, 06-01-2023
A great time and we found 2 whales to photograph too! It’s about 3 hours long and there were only 12 guests on our boat.
Amazing, unique, and needs the right perspective
Katie S, 04-01-2023
My experience was fantastic as I got a lot of interaction with the dolphins! They’re so curious and it was a blast to swirl around them under water as we scoped each other out. So much better than swimming with dolphins in captivity.
The guides are friendly and clearly love their work. They also explain why this unique opportunity of swimming with wild animals exists in PV :)
Some important things…
1: Since they’re wild, your tour guides have to wait until the dolphins surface to breathe and then chase after them so you can jump in nearby. This can be a game of cat and mouse, especially if the particular pod has a baby and wants nothing to do with the boat. I had tons of interaction with 3 dolphins and the couple whose turn it was right after mine had no interaction because the pod kept ditching our boat. You’re at the mercy of the dolphins. (Also, local kayakers and paddle boarders will be chasing them down with you but they almost certainly won’t jump in)
2: Listen to the guides and SWIM toward the dolphins! You can’t just jump off the boat and expect them to come to you. But with some real effort swimming toward them you’ll get the delight of playing with wild dolphins. It was surprising how many people simply wouldn’t swim after jumping in despite the tour guides cheerfully yelling that they needed to do so. If you get far from the boat, they’ll come get you. Just swim!
3: This is not a whale watching tour. It’s peak humpback season and we thankfully managed to see one in the distance. But don’t count on a double feature because this is all wild animals, the guides can’t control them, and the majority of the time is dedicated to the dolphins.
The guides are friendly and clearly love their work. They also explain why this unique opportunity of swimming with wild animals exists in PV :)
Some important things…
1: Since they’re wild, your tour guides have to wait until the dolphins surface to breathe and then chase after them so you can jump in nearby. This can be a game of cat and mouse, especially if the particular pod has a baby and wants nothing to do with the boat. I had tons of interaction with 3 dolphins and the couple whose turn it was right after mine had no interaction because the pod kept ditching our boat. You’re at the mercy of the dolphins. (Also, local kayakers and paddle boarders will be chasing them down with you but they almost certainly won’t jump in)
2: Listen to the guides and SWIM toward the dolphins! You can’t just jump off the boat and expect them to come to you. But with some real effort swimming toward them you’ll get the delight of playing with wild dolphins. It was surprising how many people simply wouldn’t swim after jumping in despite the tour guides cheerfully yelling that they needed to do so. If you get far from the boat, they’ll come get you. Just swim!
3: This is not a whale watching tour. It’s peak humpback season and we thankfully managed to see one in the distance. But don’t count on a double feature because this is all wild animals, the guides can’t control them, and the majority of the time is dedicated to the dolphins.
