They start jumping more around me, and it's the most fun thing to see them surfing the waves too!

I love feeling their happy energy!

"the ideas that we were struggling with back then."

 "… but we would like to know 'WHAT?', but we didn't understand it then."

"We know, because we watched this happen over and over."

"Yes, and it amused us to see change, so nobody is coming to see Joy, just the aura's changing!"

"We want" they say, "so if Joy changes auras, then help ours."

"Yes but…"

"Yes," they replied, "but the 'awakening' is more fun…"

...but they were also sure that all of those individuals are also "dolphins."

Within the space of about 10 seconds, eleven different dolphins joyfully jumped high up into the air, and came down again surfing a wave.

"Nope... We don't connect," was the answer.

… and, I would see their tales up in the air, like "whale tails" just before they dove under the water…

I had never seen the dolphins stay in one place, splashing and playing like this any other time before. It was breathtaking!

"Territorial" would be the correct word!

One of the male dolphins had given me a  "dose" of his energy. I was completely taken by surprise.

I was expecting that dolphins would have soft energy, and would feel kind.

 

It was actually a very strong energy. I would describe it as aggressive! (Surprise!!!)

At that time, I also asked to feel a female dolphin's energy, and it also felt very "strong" and not at all soft or feminine as I had been expecting it might be.

"Do we really come across that strongly?"

Please note that even within the other dolphin groups, the females don't interact… yet…

… however, see journal entry for 9/12/2016 for how the dolphin ladies first began reaching out to interact.

"When it's about survival, we come first" they indicate.

"Does it have a consciousness?", they asked.

"Leave it sit around in your home for a week or so, and we'll begin to feel your energy…"

"No," was their response, "...but swim on your back, and gently move your hands at your sides, and that is nice."

"Yes please!!! Round and round a few times… we like that!"

"Try again tomorrow," they said the whole time I was out in the water.

"We can feel your energy, and we're liking it. We like your heart… and we need to raise our vibrations a bit, you see."

It was my first time experiencing this much fun interaction with my dolphins.

They were in smaller groups of 8, and 4, all of them together splashing, playing, jumping, somersaulting and very often showing off their "whale tails" (that's what they love to call them now!) By Whale Tails, they're referring to sticking their tails straight up in the air, right before they disappear, just like the whales do! This was definitely a new thing for them!  

… sometimes there were three of them jumping all at the same time… and the water was constantly full of their dancing splashes… You could see the water showering around, even from way far away!

At one point, I felt something extra-special, in the form of a tremendous heart response from the dolphins who came the closest to me.

Much later, in September, I finally understood. Group 2 communicated that they have had two dolphins injured by the propeller of this fast-racing tour boat over the past few months, and "it's a sad way to leave", they say… meaning the two that were injured.)

"We're trying to go up the coast, before the big waves come. We must stay ahead of the waves. Someone is angry, and we are trying to get out of the way."

"It has caused injuries", they tell me.

"How do you count? "How can we know how far away the lightening is?"

"By knowing about the weather, we could stay comfortable," they said now.

"We were aware of something coming already early this morning," they indicated… "and as for time, 5 minutes, 40 minutes, we know what those both mean!"

"Ummm… well… no." … came from ALL of them at once.

"knowing where the bit waves will be [all over], and that it will eventually pass by, will help us to relax."

"We decided to do like others in the world are doing, and start getting to know each other."

"Well… hmmmmm…, we're trying … but it may take a bit of getting used to."  

(Read a lot of sort of hesitation into that…)

"a big storm is just nature. Not anger."

"When someone is in that space, everything can be accessed. All information is known… but the question is, do we have the consciousness to connect with what we need?"

"9/11?" they asked… (We were about 1½ weeks away from our 9/11 anniversary, which is still remembered every single year.)

"Physical means???" They were teasing me here… again!

"Why aren't the big waves gone yet?"

"If the storm is over, why isn't the water okay? Why weren't the waves kind and soft, like they usually are?"

Einstein, e=mc2: When an object is pushed in the direction of motion, it gains momentum and energy…

"We weren't exactly safe this way," they show me. "We were worried and agitated, just the same, while the waves were so powerful, and we weren't sure which way to look."

They described the effort that it took to try to keep breathing through the huge and rather violent waves…

 

Apparently, the effort that it took to constantly try to stay on top of the water so they could breathe, was huge.

 

It would probably be something like running a 2-day marathon, or longer… without any ability to stop and take a breath.

 

They said that some of the older dolphins and a few young ones hadn't been able to manage it and were no longer with them. They were grieving them, and not knowing how to find peace.

 

The dolphins were unhappy that storms mean some of them may not survive.

"This has a lot to do with the amount of time it takes to go down that far, and we don't like the air with so much anxiety, so the noise crashes, and our group is fragile, so we can't guide. Each one of the group is so sure when we are safe [weather is nice], but it's uncertain, and we can't hear so well [the noise is big], so our systems are not okay. Joy also assures us that the 'heavens' are our guidance, but we can't vocalize to ask 'which way is this?'"

"We, the whales, will use this another year, to show the baby dolphins how to test the earth and learn to gather their ideas to see where the feet are, to guide then into the depths, to find the correct way back again."

After having had an opportunity to let the idea of the afterlife "sit" for a while, they still hadn't accepted it.

Just the same, some of the females show me that "we are happy to understand your ideas, and happy that they may help people."

"Continuing on, surviving on the land, must be much easier when you believe you're going somewhere nice," says a dolphin named Hope. (See 9/12/2015 to learn about the naming of Hope.)

"We know now how to adapt, but a safe-haven might STILL be very welcome along the coast here and there, for the elderly, now, maybe, now that we live to expect 'kind'."

 "how life expectancy gets much longer with remembering how to prepare, and heal."

"Lallygagging" (holding their breath and simply floating, and "relaxing"), "would have allowed us to rest more during the storm."

"We don't!"

"This is unconventional for our type of group!" and then they add, "but we like to see you laugh, so we play, and it pleases you."

Human babies demonstrate an innate swimming or diving reflex from newborn until the age of approximately 6 months. Other mammals also demonstrate this phenomenon (see mammalian diving reflex). The diving response involves apnea, reflex bradycardia, and peripheral vasoconstriction; in other words, babies immersed in water spontaneously hold their breath, slow their heart rate, and reduce blood circulation to the extremities (fingers and toes).

"You see, we KNOW. We weren't actually swimming."

"…we're learning it. Slowly, though."

"It's fun. It's now a new thing."

"So we're learning to float."

"Dolphins are notoriously talented mimics and quick students."

"we can't keep the air together as a balloon," they show me.

"We were aware of you", they continue, "but you didn't heal others like this big field now, that carries over the water, so we just noticed, and couldn't find your voice."

"We are there, so we know it's healing", they say, "and we can't walk, but we'll splash like that," they tell me.

"we're still their dolphins, and they're easy to be with, so it's okay."

"The lady who dolphins with other dolphins like us in the bahamas, is a dolphin. She has two 'somethings' [legs] also. We don't understand."

"Why are you caring about us if you're not a dolphin?"

"We don't all feel l like leaving just yet," they indicate.

"This is why we stay far away today," they show, "but when you are safe, then we can be closer."

"We send our disturbed sounds back to show our unhappiness."

"We are trying to get the boat to understand," they showed me.

They've never let me call their usual "dolphining" by the name of "swimming". It's not swimming, according to them!

Swimming involves more buoyancy, and they're practicing to learn that.

"We actually don't need 'sound" to carry, but rather, it's a universal energy which is available. We don't use 'words' or 'voices' to 'talk', but rather, it's just a 'knowing'."

Think big.

Think food.

Understand that they are wondering, "Can we feed ourselves?"

This is a common concern among the whales, and it comes through very loud and clear.

"… and the boat knows our vibes, because it didn't bother with us."

"Why does it do it that way?" they asked. "Why doesn't it go in a curve, like others do?"

As far as they were concerned, going "backwards" was way incorrect … and not just "why is it going backwards", but also "how?"

"Writing something, and making quick 'sketches' helped," they indicated then.

"That's why it's so way awry. It moves in tiny places, and so it needs to do that," they said.

"A vessel, something that carries you, and us as well?"

(think dolphins, generically, like related to Sea World and such… this part about them is a new, July 2017 awareness, though)

"Changing direction with your hands?" (steering wheel)…

… and "backing out" of a "hole."

and then my "home" (another idea, like "no rain?") …

… and the driveway in front of my home, and how the road goes along ("without moving…" they need clarification)

… and how I need to turn the vessel (car) to move in front of the "building"…

and so it "had to be created to go backwards and then forwards."

"THAT MAN!" they exclaimed.

"THAT MAN!" they said again, "HE'S TERRIBLE!" (This came out so strongly!)

"HIS VOICE IS SOOOOO BIG!" they said.

"HOW IS THAT NORMAL???"

 "Now if you'll look off to the right side of the boat, you'll see a few dolphins…",

They're fascinated how we find them, when the water is so murky or "not-seeing-through".

They would like to be hidden, and don't know how we find these things if we can't see them… and they're sure we don't see them except when they want to be seen.

"They could find someone with a kind voice instead…" they indicated.

"walk to the shoreline each time they wish"

… and also "some people might plan a vacation, and then bring their entire family" to the Virginia area to see the water (and the dolphins!... and many other things also.)

"How 'impossible' would it seem to be so that others might learn to be awkward?"

"It makes too many uncomfortable sounds," they said.

"WHEREAS, the residents of and visitors to the City of Virginia Beach are entitled 14 to an environment free from excessive sound vibration and inadequately controlled 15 noise that may endanger their health or welfare, or degrade their quality of life, comfort, 16 repose or peace;"

"We've never been able to express ourselves  before because there was nobody to translate."

"yes, we are all this way. We would all of us include these same ideas."

"boats just make a general noise that carries in a large sound movement. We can't easily tell where the noise is coming from."

"Yes!!!" "Please, if that is an easy thing to implement, it could help."

"Whatever is necessary is already complete," they say.

"String cheese"… organic, but only one brand. It had calcium.

 

Ravioli… and many other types of filled pasta…

 

Tasty things…

 

… one brand of organic beef jerky…

 

Coconut… plain, raw please…

 

Cream!!!!!! Please!!! Fresh whipping cream, maybe with some raspberries…

 

"Fresh organic turkey would allow the absorption of calcium"

 

Then there was the raw, fresh shrimp. "Please.….….….!!!"

 

… and also "Clams… they would be heaven."

 

They didn't care if it was meat or vegetarian. "Just help us recover", they begged…

 

"It makes an easier route, as it's more playful."

"We love North America. There are less whalers there," they "KNOW", they say.

"It simply is," they say.

"We know we have friends there", they let me know.

"Are (R) you coming in soon?" asks the dolphin, meaning into the water to swim with them.

"She [Joy] is not using communication that I understand, so I change, and it is that way. I learn to interpret her ideas. She needs action, but I can guide her hands."

"Hope" she says… "Hope… hope… "

"Well… it hasn't been that way before… It's our roles."

"It wasn't intended, but it will be okay."

"Love," he says.

"I am one of the somewhat more spiritual dolphins within our group," he says.

"I bring many others more peace. I would resonate with 'Peace Bringer' as a name".

"Too much like everyone else," they reply.

They say they are very hungry, and it has been a very long time already…

“They are not vegetarian, but this one probably hasn’t eaten in 4 months, and now even a mouthful of kelp (back in California) may seem satisfying.”

Their response is "Not."

gray whales are mammals, and were never meant to be without food. They are meant to be thriving and should have lots of food.

“Please, NO!!! We just can’t find anything! That’s the only thing that’s anything close to what we need.”

“Each day, on their feeding grounds far to the north, gray whales will consume hundreds of pounds of crustaceans called amphipods and other shrimp-like creatures, as they filter through the heavy silt.”

"Amphipods are not even close.”

(They mean that they're not even close to anything that’s helpful to them).

They say they will eat them, but "it’s not nice”.

“It doesn’t give our bodies what they are needing.”

“… but this is California, and what food this whale is gathering here, is unknown. Scientists have long believed that Gray Whales never eat during their long migration.”

“We aren’t mammals for nothing, you know,” they say.

“Long fasts don’t suit our personality.”

“There are few crustaceans in this sandy bottom, certainly not enough to satisfy a leviathan’s appetite, but perhaps there is other food here.”

“Not enough. Not even the kind we like.”

“Not even close to what we need,” they say.

“Just what this whale is feeding on remains a mystery, but mysteries are common when one regards the great whales.”

By 30 years ago, however, they were already hungry.

They indicate to me that while on the outside, they are still large and appear to be normal, inside, they are falling apart.

 

Without food, the body can’t function well. (That's their sentence…)

On a fast, you can still manage and do things, but it takes so much energy, and you may do something like run, and it’s okay, but you’ll quickly run out of steam. You need more rest, often.

“This comes because food is intended to bring strength and build the body, but without food, the muscles won’t contract to push the food where it needs to be.”

Please know, that although some of the more recent journal entries have not yet been published, there has already been some progress as the whales of this group have individually connected with me, so they are hopeful.

However, they would love to have much more support, and help on a much bigger scale, "to help their friends as well."

This group of gray whales know that they will be okay, as well as others who can "hear Joy", but they also add that "it's not Joy's job as the one who provides the information, to teach us to be okay. There are more very big things that are necessary that will allow us to begin to heal again, including helping the oceans."

I am very far delinquent writing my journal, but these days, when I connect with my Gray Whales, they feel happy to me… SO very different than our first connections. They have learned a lot and let me know that they're okay…

I have a few really neat entries to publish about the Gray Whales!

My information may appear to be otherwise to what the current ideas are… but I am only giving you the information and "picture" given by the whales themselves… those who asked to connect with me.

I am well aware of nature, and evolution, and so the eating of amphipods would seem natural for the grey whales… nature has given them a body that made them develop physical characteristics that make bottom-dwelling feeding realistic.

When the gray whales indicate they "don't like it" (the food), and it's "not even close"… maybe it's less about what their nature and genes are, and more about the food sources themselves.

Later during the fall of 2016, during my interactions with the gray whales, they indicated about some food "… and you would eat THAT?" … indicating that to them, it was toxic, and not comfortable.

At this time, having had several of "my whales" cross from the Pacific ocean to the Atlantic ocean, and based on information from many of the species on the Pacific coast, the food chain in the Pacific ocean is "no longer satisfactory".

The animals on the Pacific coast show me much "emptier tummy syndrome", while the whales and dolphins on the east coast show "happy tummies". My whales" who crossed from the Pacific ocean to the Atlantic ocean show me that there's a HUGE difference in the food supply on the east coast, and that it's more "do-able", more "edible".

Animals do so much by instinct, and if food feels "toxic" to them, they simply won't eat it, or not as much of it as they might need.

Maybe these gray whales are simply objecting to the state of the food, and thus saying "it's not even close".  

I'm also aware that the gray whales have made a huge comeback in recent years, and their populations are recovering…

A National Geographic article titled "The Gray Whale: Past, Present, and Future", on June 28, 2019, stated that:

After being near extinction in the 1950s, the gray whale population in the eastern Pacific has rebounded to an estimated 19,000 animals, considered to be a healthy stock.In 1994, the gray whale was “de-listed,” or removed from the Endangered Species List.

Just the same, what the whales themselves are letting me know, is that over the past many decades, their food source is uncomfortable (and here they show me "backing away" from it, and feeling very uncomfortable with it). It could take several decades of genes down-grading, passed on the the newer generations, and eventually resulting in more health challenges… but those challenges could also take yet more years to manifest.

Somehow, these whales were showing me, THEN (2016), that they are "not nearly as robust and healthy as everyone would imagine"… and they are asking for "awareness of the health of the oceans."

Another piece that comes up as well, as part of the health picture for several groups of whales, is that the gene pool may have been reduced at some point, and a few variations that are less robust are now propogating among some of the species. (Some of that info would come in many of the entries that I haven't gotten to writing yet, let alone publishing…! I have a lovely story still to write about a gray whale who "expanded" the gene pool, and felt really wonderful!)

All by way of saying that, even if I don't know all the ins and outs of the physical details, or, for example, why they say they don't like the food, that fact is that the whales themselves come through, portraying what they know… and they may know many things long before they become apparent to the researchers and scientists. I am simply the messenger in this situation.

… and maybe this is relevant as another indicator of their situation, that during this past summer of 2019, Pacific gray whales are showing up dead in North America’s oceans and shores at a rate four-times greater than typical. Hundreds of gray whales washed up on the pacific coast, dead, and emaciated, but representing a far bigger number in all practicality, as apparently, only about 10% of dead whales will wash up on the shore; another 90% may simply sink to the ocean floor.

They're telling me here that it IS relevant, but it's another set of factors, related to something off in the water system, but not the same thing that they were giving me here, in 2016, when I was first connecting with the gray whales.

The long and the short of it is that the "gray whales are asking for help, for ALL of their species, not only those who know how to connect with 'Joy'. "  That's their words again, coming from "one who is now content, and living a long life."

Wikipedia says about the Gray Whales that “This mammal descended from filter-feeding whales that appeared at the beginning of the Oligocene, over 30 million years ago.”

"The tail won't be still..." he says.

When I let them know that Attu Station was part of the USA, there was great joy (and the whales showed "celebrating with whale calls and breaching"), because they were now in "America".

Safe, on their way, and okay.

"Someone is growing it on the rocks off the coast of Ecuador."

"We need this! Please tell your marine biologists… Please make this happen for us! Please ask anyone who can help to find a way to make this come to be!"

"Someone who understands oceans and ocean systems please!"

"Some of the other species of whales are well enough, and we know you (they mean everyone) care," they say.

"The water temperature affects how deep we can go."

However, they showed me this morning that they are on the northern shore of Unimak Island.

… and that path will keep them going north, up to the Arctic Circle.

They are actually really happy today!

The water is warmer, they say, and they KNOW they need to be going north.

"We believe there is a slim chance that it might be possible," they said. They are so very hopeful.

"It would mean long journeys every day, and not very much food along the way."

To translate, that means that "their noses" are awake again, and the water carries information. Every inch of them feels the need to be "home". And they're able to know the way on their own now.

For these whales, the shoreline route wins, hands-down!

Their playful energy is much more present when they follow the shoreline route, and they tell me that finding food will also be much easier.

"We're playing," they say. "We would love to be where we know we belong."

"We had a nice feed", they told me.

"While there is not actually ice here yet, we know there will be soon. We are trying to get to where we would like to be, through ice, and it may not be possible."

They found some food they can eat, at last!!!

"the easier the water is to swim in, the nicer it will be to find food", they indicate.

"You would eat such things?" they ask.

So, "It is important for your people to understand that toxic is always not only 'not okay', but heavily unorthodox in our energy," is the message passed on by the whales. "We need pure food."

 

"All whales."

"Shrimp likes us", say the youngest ones.

A newborn whale calf weighs between 1,000-1,500 pounds.

Babies can reach 18 to19 feet in length in their first 3 months of life, and they weigh between 1,500-2,000 pounds when they are about 15 feet long.

"See if you can hear our stomachs rumbling inside," say several of them.

"When we eat, we'll soon learn what we need so that we can move the food through and stay okay."

"She knows what we need, even when she doesn't actually understand the information," they try to tell everyone.

"It is fun for us all! We're feeling nice. Quite nice, you know…"

"Now we're going the wrong way… we can't do that."

"We don't plan our adventures, so we'll see how things go, and how we will spend the cold months until the ice melts again and we can continue our journey "home".

"Finding food is fun now…" they say.

"All we need to do is have you place your fingers along the route where we'll be, and you know where the food is already."

"But it's a luxury…" they say now.

You see, there are roles, and it wasn't considered okay to have a female tell anyone else how to do anything.

In doing fire-drill scenarios, we were also working through "Contingencies", such as, "What if the usual lead dolphin doesn't remember how to take the lead, on this new technique?"

It really was a new technique, and as with our young people, young dolphins pick things up much more quickly… but the protocol is "Seniority"… and only males.

So we developed a little side-scenario, where Sunny could very quietly remain near one of the more senior male dolphins in her group, and if someone needed a reminder in the midst of the stress of the storm, then Sunny would be able to give a little under-cover demonstration or assistance. That would be not only acceptable, but also appreciated.

So (they) actually had a pretty important role during the hurricane.

Later, following the hurricane, this apparently helped…

Also, somewhre along the way, there is a story, maybe it's the 11/4/2016 story about Sunny, where she asked that the one who might rescue (or connect with) her … was a male dolphin who had praised her during the hurricane.

(Please put this wherever it's most appropriate… possibly 11/4)

"It was a big deal to go quickly," the mother dolphin told Joy a little while later.

"The air is softer, as there is more rain around us, even as we are not enjoying the weather. Its interesting to learn via Joy that the weather for nice air is more rain."

"When you are conscious of our group, it seems that we can figure out how to eat," they tell me.

"Also, what makes the surf?"

Her name is now Sunny. First she thought to be named "Swimmer", but later asked for Sunny instead, since that is much more her personality.

It turns out that she had been the one very young female who had instigated many new things during the pre-hurricane fire drills.

You see, there are roles, and it wasn't considered okay to have a female tell anyone else how to do anything.

In doing fire-drill scenarios, we were also working through "Contingencies", such as, "What if the usual lead dolphin doesn't remember how to take the lead, on this new technique?"

It really was a new technique, and as with our young people, young dolphins pick things up much more quickly… but the protocol is "Seniority"… and only males.

So we developed a little side-scenario, where Sunny could very quietly remain near one of the more senior male dolphins in her group, and if someone needed a reminder in the midst of the stress of the storm, then Sunny would be able to give a little under-cover demonstration or assistance. That would be not only acceptable, but also appreciated.

So Sunny actually had a pretty important role during the hurricane.

"DNA makes nice bonds," the dolphin said.

"Since it's important that the one that is gone is needing someone like himself or herself that will see the request to connect, we'll make family-based groups."

Next-in-line as provider for the group

Allele says that he "chooses to know".

He likes assuming, he also indicates to Joy.

He means he likes making assumptions, and seeing if they are "nice"… sort of like hypotheses, and then, he says, others bring it to be.

He likes the name "Allele" because it must be "smart"… it's all about DNA.

When Joy checks, he really is very smart, and smarter than average for a male dolphin. (Checking is just one of those really easy things for Joy… any question, and the answers are always very accurate.)

In other words, it's not only being large and strong that brought him the title "Provider", but rather, his greater intelligence. It has always meant that he is often one of the first to be aware of the best strategy.

It turns out that Mystery was actually the "director" and "choreographer" for the beautiful new dances and sequences that his group of dolphins performed for Joy after Hurricane Matthew (see the 10/18/2016  journal entry).

At first, Mystery was really hesitant about others becoming aware of this, and he was trying to not admit to it… but once Joy understood, a lot of things "clicked".

Having such a variety of creative talents actually shows that he is multi-talented.

Joy showed him that when children and young adults are in school together, it's often those who include music, theatre, sports, and other extra-curricular activities, who often also achieve the higher grades.

Theo, the beautiful young lady dolphin who performed some of the many new sequences (or dances, as they would call them) after Hurricane Matthew, shows that he (Mystery) "learns to see what is needed," so it leaves everyone feeling productive.

… and who is very gentle, yet a nice director.

Female ~ 3½ years old (2016)

James is for James Wyland, and artist who does really neat whale and dolphin art

See journal entry _________________  (~ 11/12/2016… )

James is a young dolphin with creative talents

James is really happy with her choice of name… as long as everyone sees it as a dolphin.

Sometimes when Joy starts to draw something on her whiteboard, maybe as an example for someone, she tries really hard to make nice shapes on her own, but she just doesn't "have it" when it comes to drawing!

Female, ~ 3 years old (2016) (group 2 of dolphins)

See journal entry 11/4/2016

She had gotten separated from her group, for 1½ days… had taken on a role of helping to keep the "swimming" technique through hurricane Matthew… helping one of the more authoritative dolphins, who then kept the group using the technique.

Swimmer also has "interior design" aptitudes… uses this in interesting ways… positions everything by aligning for the best flows. E.g., helped arrange her entire dolphin pod so that it moved and flowed… some mothers were together, so they might provide moral support for each other, positioned dolphins together who got along, also based on their seniority, and those who like to catch up later (i.e., lag behind often to see what else is around)…

The whole pod likes the idea, and they agree it works.

Male

See journal entry 9/12/2016 ("The dolphins want names, please"),

and also 8/19/2016 (lallygagging)

Male, "Provider"… for the group 2 dolphins

Big

One of the oldest male dolphins

Says he is very soft (caring)

(Atlas meaning map)

(no real initial journal entry)…

The info about "Provider" is first introduced in the 11/5/2016 journal entry ("Next-in-line…")

"Provider", I understand, needs to be a title.

Female

See journal entry 9/12/2016 ("The dolphins want names, please")

Hope was the very first female dolphin to interact directly with Joy.

Female

See journal entry 1/3/2017.

Jewel is one of the more older dolphins. She was the first female dolphin who asked to have the "tail fix" for swimming, before Hurricane Matthew came through. (I may not have written about the "tail fix" yet… It's still VERY clear in my memory, though!)

(probably born ~ 1991, so 25 years old summer of 2016)

Female, ~ 5 years old

See journal entry 9/28/2016 (Adventure "jumped" along with Hope)

Adventure was the dolphin whose info began a discussion about sex, re: possible ovary not yet sending eggs…  and the discussion moved to "How are baby dolphins created?"

Adventure was 5 years old in summer of 2016, but didn't yet have any baby dolphins… mostly by age 5, they do… or rather, have had.

At the moment, she resonates really well with the name "Adventure"… still youthful, full of fun, doesn't yet have to keep up with her own children…

  

Female, ~ 3 years old (2016)

See journal entry 11/4/2016

She had gotten separated from her group, for 1½ days… had taken on a role of helping to keep the "swimming" technique through hurricane Matthew… helping one of the more authoritative dolphins, who then kept the group using the technique.

Swimmer also has "interior design" aptitudes… uses this in interesting ways… positions everything by aligning for the best flows. E.g., helped arrange her entire dolphin pod so that it moved and flowed… some mothers were together, so they might provide moral support for each other, positioned dolphins together who got along, also based on their seniority, and those who like to catch up later (i.e., lag behind often to see what else is around)…

The whole pod likes the idea, and they agree it works.

(Create a journal entry for this, ~ 11/12/2016)

Male

See journal entry 11/4/2016

Twinkles is the dolphin that Swimmer remembered as having praised her during the hurricane. He is the dolphin that Swimmer / Sunny asked to connect with when she had become separated from the group, in November.

Male, ~ 24 years old

See journal entry 11/5/2016

Next-in-line as provider for the group

(We traced some of his relationships and many of his offspring)

Male

No specific notes… but another wonderful young male dolphin who wanted to be remembered.

Male, who is "Provider" for the group 1 dolphins

(no journal entry yet, but can add it for 11/5/2016, where we talk about "Provider" as a title)

Mystery was actually the big director for the beautiful 10/18/2016 new dances that the group 1 dolphins performed for Joy (including Theo). At first, he was hesitant about others becoming aware of this, but it actually shows that he is multi-talented, and out-performed other dolphins, which made him "Provider".

Female ~ 8 years old

See journal entry 10/18/2016

Theo was one of the lovely dolphins who performed some of the many new sequences (or dances, as they would call them), after Hurricane Matthew.

Female ~ 3½ years old (2016)

James is for James Wyland, and artist who does really neat whale and dolphin art

See journal entry 11/12/2016…

James is a young dolphin with creative talents

James is really happy with her choice of name… as long as everyone sees it as a dolphin.

Sometimes when Joy starts to draw something on her whiteboard, maybe as an example for someone, she tries really hard to make nice shapes on her own, but she just doesn't "have it" when it comes to drawing!

James is a young female dolphin who connects with Joy and helps her to correctly draw the silhouette of a dolphin… or a whale.

This is the dolphin who began the whole idea of encouraging "aptitude"

Female, born in 1993, so would have been 23 years old (like people age 47 or so) in 2017.

See journal entry 2/24/2017

She volunteered to be an adoptive mom for the baby of a pregnant dolphin, who, it felt like, might not make it through the birth (possibly with something like placenta previa).

I named her TrailBlazer, because as far as I was concerned, what she was doing was amazing, and very unique

Male

~ 2½ years old

Also helps me to draw (see journal entry 11/12/2016)

Male

One of the older dolphins, maybe ~ 31 years old (as of summer 2016)

He is "Provider" for the group 4 dolphins

(no journal entry yet, but can add it for 11/5/2016, where we talk about "Provider" as a title)

Allele chooses to know. He likes assuming.

He likes the name "Allele" because it must be smart… it's all about DNA.

(When Joy checks, he really is very smart, and smarter than average for a male dolphin.)

Female

(11/18/2016 ~ date of this note)

Possibly around 19 years old.

Azure is one of the beautiful female dolphins who "accepted" being able to see Joy…

(Joy's private note: She is one who helped to surround Joy with female energies, especially at a time when Joy was needing help… i.e. to sleep well.)

Male

(11/18/2016 ~ date of this note)

Says he's 6. (quietly, privately, Joy counts 4 years)

He is so happy to be a strong male, and more like a grown-up

… however, today (11/18/2016), Joy talked about "play" with the young dolphins, like games like people-children play, like tag and such … also other things like teams, maybe even young girls on one team and young boys on another team, and trying to get "captured players" back again…

Sky thought it would be okay to be young too, and play.

Female

(11/2016 ~ date of this note)

~ 7½ years old.

(just a dolphin who likes the name)

(Fall 2016 ~ date of this note). She's the one who decided to connect and learn how everyone else is, and what they are about. In order to do this, she began taking frequent bathroom breaks, because they are now aware that people "go off somewhere" to do their private business", and she started going off to do this, always groups of twos or so, so that they might converse together.

Female

Born summer 2016 (June 2, 2016 or so?)

A young Virginia Beach dolphin who was around in my space around Christmas, 12/24/2020 …

… In Dec 2020, she would now be 4 years old, but remembers the energy when I was there. I't's not surprising that she's a group 4 dolphin, because it's the group 4 dolphins who undertook the "child-raising changes" that they decided to incorporate (based on some of our discussions, and their awareness of "new norms")  

Legende (see 2/17/2017, "Teenagers")  (female), ~ 8 years old.

Also a reference 3/3/2017.

Female, group 4

Possibly around 19 years old.

Azure is one of the beautiful female dolphins who "accepted" being able to see Joy…

(Joy's private note: She is one who helped to surround Joy with female energies, especially at a time when Joy was needing help… i.e. to sleep well.)

Male, group 4

Says he's 6. (quietly, privately, Joy counts 4 years)

He is so happy to be a strong male, and more like a grown-up

… however, today (11/18/2016), Joy talked about "play" with the young dolphins, like games like people-children play, like tag and such … also other things like teams, maybe even young girls on one team and young boys on another team, and trying to get "captured players" back again…

Sky thought it would be okay to be young too, and play.

"much more inclined to 'speak up' when we need someone to hear about our issues."

Very young female (~ 4 years old during the summer of 2016)

See journal entry 9/28/2016

One of the first two whales who ate shrimp using Joy's One

Female, ~ 8 years old (2016, so born probably ~ 2008)

Another beautiful energy… very kind

(11/18/2016)

Grace was one of the lovely whales who brought through lovely feminine energy, especially during the time when that was helpful to me (for a space that brought kinder sleep and healing)

Grace's name is about just that… "grace", i.e., giving someone grace, just because you are soft.

("How do you describe these soft, soft energies?!" It's really hard for me to find the words sometimes.)

Young female, ~ 4 years old (2016, so born probably ~ 2012)

(11/2016)

She just likes the name… feels it could be nice even as she is a mother (which isn't yet)

Male

The first whale ever to connect with me. (9/10/2016).

This came the day right after I first watched a video about whales.

He is the key male whale who has been helping "the lost bottlenose whales" get from off the coast of Japan, back to North America…

(he would love to be in the people's world, and he expresses near-miracle awareness of things we have.) (he has consciousness of them, and would love to participate.)

*** See the notes I wrote when I actually "introduced" LandLover… 5/23/2017

Born maybe ~ Feb 3, 2004

Female, ~ 8 years old (as of 2016)

Born early in 2008 (February)

Note: North Pacific bottlenose whales reach sexual maturity at about 8-10 years of age.  Females are thought to give birth at three year intervals and most calves are born 15 feet (4.6 meters) in length during the early winter through the late spring after an estimated 10 to 17 month gestation period.   Calves are weaned after a year of nursing.

Female… who had the baby along the way, who had post-birth challenges (sepsis), but lived

… no specific notes, but she really wanted this name!

(Maybe she'll still come through one day and we'll write about her… )

(3/9/2021… it doesn't feel like she's over in the Atlantic ocean, so still in the Pacific. She's showing me north up the west coast, southern Alaska, "Elfin Cove". Wow… we need to connect!!!)

(renamed from "Sunshine" to "Sunneshine". She also really likes Solange, also meaning Sun. )

One of LandLover's bottlenose whales that I saw after I was on the west coast… December 10, 2017

There are many, many entries about Sunneshine.

Most likely born about 2010…

… but updated that on 2/13/2022 when we actually checked the calendar together.

March 2009 is what comes up…

Timeline for Sunneshine:

12/10/2017, our first "meeting", at the Dungeness Spit.

It was because I actually saw her, big-time, that she began showing up in my space regularly, a while after that.

Spring 2017

I'm driving several times a week from Sequim to Poulsbo, a 1-hour drive, through mostly rural highways, with beautiful scenery, During this time, I'm listening to a few audiobooks along the way. I start to be aware of this regular presence of one of the whales "listening" as I go. That was Sunneshine, beginning to be present…

08/2017 … LandLover's group's first attempt to cross from west coast to east coast (over the Beaufort Sea)

08/2018 … LandLover's group successfully crosses from west coast to east coast, but Sunneshine isn't among them. She's staying on the west coast for now, deliberately so, as she's connected with me, and wants to stay around, physically present.

(She's not the only one around, as I'm listening to my audio books… there is one dolphin I know as well… but they're taking turns, they tell me.)

11/17/2018 … a visit to the Hansville lighthouse, and I'm beginning to find Sunneshine trying to show up where I'm going to be at the water… she wants to be around where I am.

This is when she finally gets her name… it's a toss-up, between Deannae (for DNA) and a sunny name, and so she became Sunneshine.

3/19/2019 … at Cape Flattery, I had a connection with Baird's whales, who later "knew" Sunneshine, and some of them are in her notes later … especially Ray, who is her escort /friend while she's alone on the west coast, and also Photo, whom I met this day on Cape Flattery, who became a big help for Sunneshine and Ray, and has become one of my very famous "regulars" here. I talk about him a lot! (Haven't written so much yet, but he's one of my favorites here!)

8/2019 … Sunneshine, Ray and Photo make the journey together from the west coast to the east coast, via the Beaufort Sea. Ray and Photo accompany her so that her chances of success are increased, and it seems that in many situations I'm aware of, the female needs a male presence along, in order to protect her and the species.

Will

The first of LandLover's bottlenose whales that I saw once I was on the west coast… December 10, 2017

Born early 2015

(No additional notes or connections with Will, after the 12/10/2017 connection… )

Miquelon

I'm not completely sure how old he is … born probably ~ 2003, and would have been 13 or 14 when he was in Virginia Beach when I first met him, in 2017.

I saw Miquelon!

I was a on a whale-watch tour with 2 friends of mine (02/11/2017), and I'm almost positive he was one of the whales we saw, because there was this HUGE connection and a "recognition" energy there! He was one who was alongside the boat for several sightings, over the space of about 4 minutes or so.

He later told me that he had "taken a short run alongside the boat"!!!

He was SURE it was HE I was seeing, both at the time, and later

… and his energy connects in one of those "loops" where the dolphins or whales I've actually SEEN keep showing up, over and over again.

Atlasine

Champion

NewfieGirl

(NewfieGirl's baby [no name assigned] )

… a female, I'm given, born female, born approx March 9, 2016 (?), so 10 months old at the time around the time I first learned about her, Jan 2017)

Toasti (~ 4 at the time of Jan 2017)

She was named this because the very first thing she said was "It's toasty warm here!"

That was the Virginia Beach ocean in January, which is cold! But I guess that compared to offshore Nova Scotia, it probably felt like bathwater to her!

Skye (Toasti's escort, who forgot her and headed north without her, equinox 2017, VB)

"We're celebrating, leading up to your Thanksgiving!"

"We celebrate being alive."

She says "my name is already there… it's Azure", and she also says she "likes the soft day when the sky is like clear and high above". Those are her words coming through as I'm typing.

She says she wants to connect with me, so she says "I'm taking my time to write."

"There is more, we are aware. We need to learn what else has changed, so that we can get home and belong."

"There are ideas, and they are kind," they say.

"Shhh.…. There's a really big SOMETHING around, but keep it quiet… and don't tell anyone…"

"We're on a 14-minute deep-routine… so that's it for now," was the reply.

"Are we okay?"

You see, the dolphins were apprehensive, just in case the whales might be a predator, because they are BIG, and they wanted to hear from me that they were okay near the whales, and that there would be no harm coming…  

… and the whales (the largest of the beaked whales), were wondering the same:

"Are we okay near the dolphins?"

(Bottlenose whales eat fish… and they are not at all like orcas, but they were trying to make sure that the dolphins also were not predators.)

The whales were still unsure… and asked for "more".

Within a few minutes, my happy group number 1 dolphins were dolphining up the shore in front of me, and my lovely group 2 dolphins, were coming dolphining down the shore, and they actually met in the middle, the two groups inter-weaving, right in front of me, and they put on a display! WOW!!!

"It's not much fun to be above the water when it's so cold."

… so they usually don't show nearly as much of themselves, but they still "play"…

...and despite the cold, they are sometimes jumping and leaping, splashing, and now even also "breaching".

That’s like doing a big back-flop… their version of our belly-flop!

What he meant is "Why do I exist?"

"Who am I? …and what is life about? Why am I here?"

"Do they recognize themselves in a mirror?"

Now THAT'S in interesting question!

Do they see the dolphin in the mirror? Hmmm.….

I have a different answer than the currently-held belief.

The young (child) male came back with the name "Hercules" please…

That turned out to be funny, because a little while later, the female told me that she wanted to be called Hercules… instead of the male.

She let me know that SHE was the one who was bigger (although she thinks she might be "almost as strong as the male.")

"I think it might be four," came the reply. I checked, and agreed.

… and then I checked what his size would be in another year or so… and it was bigger!

… and another year after that, and it was bigger still!

… and one more year again… and he may be then be done growing, or at least slowing down!

… but then he will be just a bit (or more than a bit) bigger than the female whale here (Atlasine), and will ALWAYS be bigger. (He's happy!)

At this, Champion accedes, but with a really impish attitude, like "If I must…"

Champion feels like a child to me… and Atlasine feels like a girl, a little older, but nowhere near a teenager yet.

"Who are you?", and expressing who they are…

… except that this is something that they didn't even know was there…

"It's fun," everyone says.

… my "no-longer-lost" bottlenose whales are still on the coast of Alaska…

… my group of very hungry gray whales is no longer hungry and they're smiling more often

     (although some of the other gray whales are still hungry and would love some help too)…

… there are other whales who are happy to learn new feeding techniques…

… and there are a few more nice happenings that you'll enjoy reading about

"Are you there?"

"Yes, we're here, and it's well."

"Are you doing fine?"… to another one somewhere else…

"No, not quite, but it's light, we're learning how to adapt again…"

"How are you?"

"We're also doing some rearranging and it's cool…"

"Are you there, _____"

"Yes, I'm here, and it's okay."

"We're calling to __________, and how are you?"

"Not here now…", and he says he's near the entrance to the light, though… and that is sad for all of them.

"We love you", they echo back to that one, who is still near with his love for the whales…

"Are you new?" they call, "Please add your thread to our talk, and tell us the whole story" (like female, or the time of your birth…)

"How are you, then, dear body of the young whale that is being born right now?"

"Okay, but it's comfortable…" the young new one responds…

"No, you're not there…"

"You too… " and with that, their thoughts, "How can we bring back more of our whales?"

1000 years ago, apparently, "It was nice".

400 years ago, "It was already too much to know what to do… there were many not responding…"

and 200 years ago, it feels to me like it was exceptionally uncomfortable.

"The question of whether whales sometimes sing purely for aesthetic enjoyment, personal satisfaction, or 'for art's sake', is considered by some to be 'an untestable question'."

"Yes!!!" "We are singing, for enjoyment. NOW we do this…"  

"If the boat is slow, we go around it and ask 'are you seeing us?', and we think we feel your sunny smiles."

… and the dolphins add, here, "… and how frail things are when you have only ideas, but no real way of connecting to "reality".

"What does it want?"

"THAT man!"

"That man!" they repeated… "He's terrible! His voice is so BIG!" (They meant it was really loud.)

"… they thought that having sex with multiple men during pregnancy would give the baby a mix of traits from each of them, as if all their good qualities were blending together. To give their babeis the best of all worlds, women would have sex with as many men as possible to give the child all their best characteristics."