SFist Photo: The Happy Dolphins of San Francisco

This is no porpoise - it's a genuine San Francisco dolphin. We'll Flipper you. Flipper you for real.

We've seen Cetaceans from San Francisco only just a few times, and then we're never really sure if they're porpoises or dolphins or whatever. But we're pretty sure these are dolphins that we saw from the Coastal Trail at Land's End last week. They were none too frisky. We expected them to be jumping a bit, like the Frank Sinatra-era TV Flipper, or the Jessica Alba filmed-in-Australia TV Flipper or even them military secret agent dolphins like Lieutenant junior grade Flipper. And we're not sure why this one had such a mottled appearance. (Is that normal?) Anyway, it was a magical experience to see these animals from one of our favorite Spots.