{"id":520700,"date":"2026-06-05T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/520700\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:00:13","slug":"more-than-300-dolphins-joined-this-e-foiler-for-a-session-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/520700\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 300 Dolphins Joined This E-Foiler for a Session in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325073\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-325073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/rogers-670x388.jpg\" alt=\"Dolphins surfing alongside e-foiler\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-325073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretty tough to beat this for an afternoon foil session. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>There aren\u2019t too many things better than sharing the lineup with wildlife.<\/strong> Maybe not a giant great white, but when a whale, turtles, seals, or dolphins show up, it always makes even the worst sessions great. And that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/dolphins-hydroflyer-howe-sound-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a little easier to find if you\u2019re on a foil out in the deep<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rogers, a travel and action sports filmmaker, recently spotted a giant pod of dolphins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q1wVtCVmSr8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he estimated to be 300-plus strong<\/a>. The waters off Cape Town, South Africa are a little more alive than some other places, and Rogers decided it might be fun to take his E-foil out to say hello. Little did he know that the dolphins wanted to say hello back, and they were there to have a good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pretty tough to beat this for an afternoon foil session. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot There aren\u2019t too many things better&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[140902,10906,224984,18,19,17,133,5258,461],"class_list":["post-520700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-cape-town","tag-dolphins","tag-e-foil","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-south-africa","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116699518488164548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}