Photo of the Day 427

Playful Dolphin, Waimanalo, Hawaii, 2001

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

A bottlenose dolphin plays in a lagoon in Waimanalo, Hawaii. Located just a half hour's drive from Honolulu, Waimanalo stretches out lazily along the coast like a sleeping hound. Its long, curving white-sand beach was once used as a backdrop for the television series Baywatch Hawai'i.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "ZipUSA: Waimanalo, Hawaii," February 2001, National Geographic magazine)