I have loved dolphins for as long as I can remember. I swam with Aleta and Merina, and I met Talon, the youngest dolphin living there at the time. Later, I found out about the DRC volunteer program.
Volunteers help the staff and trainers do all kinds of things.
They pick up trash, sort recyclables, feed the birds, and clean fish buckets. And they get to hang out with the dolphins every day. I wanted to be a volunteer more than anything, but volunteers had to be 18 years old. Mom called DRC and explained how much I loved dolphins, and finally they said we could submit applications. We went back again the next summer.