Dolphins and manta rays!

This weekend the weather was perfect, I was on Stradbooke Island, which is the prototype Pacific Island. Palms, waves as clear as in an aquarium, perfect white sand and in the backdrop thick lush vegetation like a forest. While swimming, suddenly, in the corner of my eye I see 2 shadows shoot by. What's that! Sharks? Surfers? No, Dolphins! And they're surfing the waves. Woaw! I didn't get any pictures as I didn't have my camera handy so I'll describe it. There were about 6 of them and just like surfers they chose their waves very carefully. So they weren't all surfing the same wave at the same time. You could see them kick up lots of speed under water and then, in the crest of the wave, they'd just get their snouts out of the water, thus cutting through the water. Surfing Dolphins, it's really clear they're just having fun. This is the best thing I have ever seen in nature. Too bad it only lasted a couple of minutes. Back at the beach in front of the house we stayed at, I saw many more dolphins. I must have counted over 50 throughout the day. Excellent! Michel and I were fishing a little later along the beach when Michel spotted something big, black and fast. There were 2 Manta Rays about 3 meters out from the beach, they were very close to the shore and it looked like they were making little Manta Rays. We followed them for 500 meters and then they decided to head out to sea again. Apparently this was extremely rare as a couple of local fisherman had never seen that either when we asked them.