We had an interesting time taking photos of dolphins at the beach yesterday and then photos of the sky after midnight last night. The Geminids “King” meteor shower was at its peak in the early hours this morning. Yesterday morning, I don’t think I even looked up to the sky for birds at the beach, because the dolphins were putting on quite a show within a couple of feet of the beach.

This first photo is my favorite because the baby surfaced.

The water on this part of the beach was fairly clear. So, the dolphins were going crazy catching fish. I’m not sure if that is a shadow or if this dolphin has a fish in his snout in the photo below. At one point, my husband was down the beach from me watching a large fish just a couple of feet from the shore. The dolphin that I’d been taking photos of, took off down the beach like lightning and grabbed the fish right in front of my husband and another person standing there. I missed that shot, of course!

The dolphin came by, turned on his side, and took a look at my camera.

Here are a couple of videos that I took with my phone

We woke up at 1:30 am today and went outside to watch the meteor shower for about an hour. We saw lots of meteors and most of the time (of course) they were in a part of the sky that my camera was not pointed toward. But, I did catch one on the camera before we came inside. You can click on the photo to enlarge it and get a better look. The bright star to the bottom left is Sirius. Toward the center, you can see Orion’s Belt. In the upper right, the cluster of stars is the Pleiades. And then, the one green meteor streak that we saw is in the bottom right.