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Dingle in Kerry is a very popular holiday destination for visitors from all over the world. Dingle is situated in in the far west of Ireland in the centre of wild mountainous coastal terrain.

Dingle had been a fishing town for centuries but more recently its main industry is tourism. Fishing continues as before and fishing boats of all sizes can be seen regularly at Dingle pier unloading their catch.

One of Dingle’s favourite visitor attractions for the past twenty years is Fungi, the Dingle Dolphin. Fungi is a dolphin who lives in Dingle harbor. It is not known how long he has lived there but he was first noticed in 1984 accompanying the town’s fishing boats as they entered the mouth of the harbour. By mid 1984, Department of The Marine manager Kevin Flannery had logged the dolphin as a fulltime occupant of Dingle harbour and official guide to the Dingle fishing fleet.

The dolphin was called Fungi and during the following years and lots of study Fungi became much more friendly to humans so that human interaction with him became easier. There is no definitive answer as to why he was christened Fungi (sometimes spelled Funghi or Fungie) but some say it is because he is a ‘Fun Guy’.

As his reputation grew, more and more visitors came to see him and this gradually grew into a local industry. Nowadays there are quite a few boats working in Dingle whose exclusive job is to transport visitors to the harbor entrance to see Fungi. Fungi has a welcome for everybody but apparently he he prefers females. Swimmers, divers, canoeists, windsurfers, or children have a thrilling experience with Fungi.

During the summer months Fungi feeds on fish in the harbour mouth. He has often been seen catching a fish known as the Garfish which had not previously been known to be part of a dolphin’s diet. During the winter months Fungi has to travel further afield for his food.

Fungi is a bottlenose dolphin. He probably consumes about 30kg of food a day. So Fungi, who is equipped with a sophisticated sonar system and a turn of speed which leaves Atlantic salmon standing, has only the local fishermen to compete with for food. If it wasn’t for the endless supply of food available here, it would not be so easy for him to live comfortably in this confined locality and to spent most of the time enjoying all the attention.
Fungi is the top free-living cetacean visitor attraction in the world. The number of people who have come to see him is unrecorded but by now it has certainly reached hundreds of thousands and this is a world record for a solitary wild animal of any kind. The income brought to Dingle is just a guess but is probably tens of millions.

There are numerous videos on Youtube of visitors interacting with Fungi.

Visitors to Dingle will find a wide range of Dingle bed and breakfast and Dingle Hotels.

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