As a young girl, Seraphina Gray Rossi packed up her things at eleven years old to move to a small town on the big island called, Haleiwa, Hawaii. With parents as well respected marine biologists who specialized in the species of bottlenose dolphins...
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Sweat dripped down Sera's forehead as she cleaned the beach of the remaining litter that was scattered across the terrain, not letting it pass her wall to enter the ocean. Collecting the garbage, the majority of it being plastic, she tossed it into the recycling bin just off the walkway, hearing it clatter down until it hit the bottom.
With the sun glaring down onto her tanned skin, it made the work ten times more exhausting as it became more of a workout than a cleanup. It was the early summer, just June in the tropics of Hawaii, and the sun as per usual was heating the tiny islands. Without a cloud in sight, it was hard to escape its rays unless you found shade to hide under.
Sera's bleached blonde, balayage hair was braided into French braids against her head to stop it from causing more sweat to drip down her neck and back. Baby hairs would stick out of it, but Sera didn't care about her appearance when it came to the cleanup portion of her day, only wanting to get it done as quickly as possible so she could retreat into the air conditioning of her home.
It was a short day for her as it was a Sunday, the shortest hours of the week as no one was allowed on the property of Dolphin Cove, only herself, her parents, and the few staff members helping with keeping the land clean and clear of garbage. It also was the day for inventory and the weekly check-ups they'd do on their marine animals to make sure progress was moving swimmingly. Pun intended.
Sera was able to do everything when it came to running Dolphin Cove, but it took more specialists, like her parents, to conduct the wellness checks of the animals, especially the dolphins currently in the rehab center. At the moment they had Beau and Nala, two four-year-old adolescent dolphins that washed up on their beach a month ago.
Both had seemed to be in good health, but when it came to noticing whether or not their echolocation had been working, Nala, the female, failed the test. She was always bumping into the walls of the tanks both her, and the male was in, raising doubt if she could ever be let back into the ocean, as well as not being able to get her food, causing the staff to have to feed her by hand.
When it came to Beau, he did just fine by being able to find his food using echolocation, as well as staying away from bumping into the walls. It made no sense as to why he managed to wound himself up with the female, but the biologists came to believe that he followed Nala to the shore and got himself stuck as well.
It was going to take another couple weeks of analyzing them and then seeing how they'd do in their open water long-term care pool that was designated for the dolphins not being able to go back into the wild. With every dolphin, no matter the relationship built, the primary objective was to always send them back into the wild, but if not, they'd live in safety and solitude in their facility.
So far, Dolphin Cove had nine residential female dolphins making their permanent mark, stealing the hearts of the Hawaiian residents that lived within Hawaii. As they were all female, it made the process easier for integrating them all into a single pod that successfully ran like a well-oiled machine.
