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For just a minute there, I was pretty sure I'd seen the Sasquatch of the Sea. As I rolled out onto the back deck of the Cliff House I caught this huge splash out of the corner of my eye. Whoa! What was that? I figured it must have been a sea lion, so I got my camera out and started glassing the area, and before I could say "Coral Key Park and Marine Reserve," I saw a porpoise catching a wave. Or, more properly, a dolphin, just like Flipper.
It's actually pretty hard for me to tell for certain by the photos if they are dolphins rather than porpoises, but the fins look more dolphin-like to my uneducated eye. Anyway, that was my excitement for the day. There were maybe two or three guys on surfboards out there, but I only saw one guy actually catch a wave, and he was way off in the distance. I pedaled out to Noriega Street to see if he or anyone else was crazy enough to still be out there but came up empty.
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