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Photo Diary: A Boat Ride in Tampa Harbor [1]
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Date: 2025-04-26
The Florida Aquarium runs daily tourist boats out into Tampa Harbor to look for dolphins.
Alas, the “Dolphin Watch” tour is mostly a “dolphin wait” tour: although Dolphins are very common in the Bay and you are sure to see some, you never know when or where, and when you see them, it’s only gonna be a glimpse of dorsal fin for a second or two. Add to it the fact that you are in a pitching vibrating boat, and that makes photographing them very difficult. The best thing to do is set the zoom very wide, be quick, shoot what you can, and crop it later.
Some photos from a recent ride out into the harbor.
Boarding the “Bay Spirit II”
Heading out into the Bay
The museum ship “American Victory”, a WW2 cargo ship, is docked next to the aquarium
Fuel storage tanks
Drydock. The ships here are waiting to have repair or maintenance work done.
HMS “Medway”, a British Royal Navy patrol ship based in the Caribbean. She’s here for some repair work.
Titan America, a cement company
Freighter “Seabulk Challenge”
Freighter “Curia”
Tampa Bay is very shallow, averaging round ten feet deep. These buoys mark the dredged channel for ships, which is 45 feet.
Shrimp boat “Miss Breanne”
Downtown Tampa
Dolphin (uncropped)
Dolphin (cropped)
Dolphin (cropped)
Cormorants
Laughing Gulls
Brown Pelicans
Royal Tern (cropped)
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