Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

My story “How an injured dolphin helped me heal”

As he slides under my palm my fingers brush against his cool skin, which feels as soft as the finest mulberry silk. I’m weightless, suspended, my feet can’t touch the ground. I tread water to keep afloat. As I awkwardly bob, the wild dolphin dives, surfaces and floats effortlessly before me. He is spraying me with his sonar, perhaps to ensure that I’m not some erratic mechanical marine object – I am flesh and blood – a mammal like him. The soundwaves from his echolocation permeate through me, I feel as if my insides are jingling and jangling. It’s the strangest feeling. Foreign. This whole experience is weird yet so unbelievably wonderful. I think to myself, ‘Shouldn’t I

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