Took our showers last night after we came back from helping the sun set off the beach. Anchor lamp lit and deployed and crawled into the V-berth to allow ourselves to be gently rocked to sleep. Suddenly we begin to hear clicking noises, like someone tapping rapidly on the hull. Eight to twelve taps, then nothing. Got up to investigate. In the cockpit I became convinced it was coming from the starboard quarter--maybe the dinghy was rubbing on it's fender, no it wasn't. Just then the tapping was on the port side, then the bow. I checked the anchor line, no problem, bimini wasn't the source. We were puzzled.
Sometimes the clicking seemed near, sometimes distant. It remained at odd intervals.
Just as it was getting dark, we had been visited by a bunch of dolphins. They were actively feeding all around us. Could they be the ones clicking? We don't know the answer, but observed at least one other boater at anchor running around his boat checking out the same stuff we had done on ours. The clicks finally left and we were peacefully rocked to sleep with the sounds of the gentle waters lapping at our hull.
Stay tuned, more later.
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