English: [via Donna Wade Nightingale and "Jupiter Old Days" on fb]

"Ok here’s the story of Jupiter’s favorite dolphin, Georgie Girl.

In the 1960’s a family of 8 dolphins lived in the Loxahatchee. The river was very different in those days with so many mullet you could almost walk on them. In 1966 one foggy morning the Miami Seaguarium, www.miamiseaquarium.com/ sent two boats up into the river and caught all but one of the dolphins. They were to be sent to the Worlds Fair in Montreal Canada the following year after training. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_67 The one dolphin they missed was suddenly all alone in the river. Some time after this we had a dead baby dolphin wash up on the beach in front of the house. (I later learned that dolphins need a mid-wife dolphin to help get the baby to the surface to breath.). After awhile, people in Jupiter gave the dolphin the nickname “Lonesome George”. Then in the summer of 1967 Dru-Ann and Daryl Kinsey and I were swimming in the river in front of our houses and “Lonesome George” was swimming near us as he (? We thought it was a “he” up until that day), had come to do frequently. That day the dolphin got closer and closer to us and finally just sort of sank to the bottom in about 3 feet of water in front of us. I was sure something was wrong so I picked it up and held it’s blow hole above the surface while my mother made an urgent call to the Miami Seaquarium, and talked to their vet. He told her that either the dolphin was in very big trouble OR it was trying to make contact / play with us. I decided to find out so I gently pushed it out into the deeper water and waited to see what would happen. Maybe a minute later, it popped back up at the surface and glided over to us. Ah- ha ! It was trying to play ! We played with the dolphin for hours that day and in the process I discovered that “Lonesome George” was a female. There was a new song in the top 40 at the time called “Hey there Georgie Girl”, so I named her after the song. From Lonesome George to Georgie Girl, it seemed like a logical transition. She became friends with all the kids in Jupiter and she would swim for hours with them and with women, but she would not go near adult men. Probably because of the trauma of her family being captured. More on who shot her and why she was shot later…"

[Chris Conway]