"I will never forget their screams"

"It was the worst night of my life," recalls Liz Carlson when she found 145 dolphins, who jumped to the ground and died on a secluded beach in New Zealand.

A US travel blogger and a friend went on a five day hike on Stuart Island when they came across a tragic scene.

The picturesque, with other circumstances, the long beach of fine sand completely deserted, has become the scene of a desperate struggle for life.

Two flocks, nearly 150 black dolphins, were in shallow waters at low tide and were fighting in agony in the gentle waves of the surf.

"It did not suit me," she told the BBC. "We arrived at the beach closer to sunset and saw something unusual on the sandbanks."

"When we realized that they were dolphins, we threw everything and rushed to the water."

In the past, Liz had already seen dolphins in their natural environment, but according to her, it is absolutely impossible to prepare for such a show, this picture is so terrifying.

"The worst was helplessness."

Friends have tried to help the dwarves by pushing them to the depths. "But you realize quickly that you can not do anything. They are too big, "says Liz.

"Being aware of your helplessness is the worst thing," she said. "They are screaming, talking, clicking, and there is no way to help them."

Seeing that their own efforts were unsuccessful, desperate, they began to look for other ways to help the animals.

Stewart Island is located south of the southern island of New Zealand and the beach where they are located is even more abandoned.

The couple had not met other tourists for two days, but he knew that about 15 km from them was a hut owned by a local environmental agency.

There is no cellular connection in these places, but there was a hope that a busy radio station would be in the lobby, and Liz's friend, Julian Ripoll , has rushed to go there.

"It tore my heart"

Liz, 30, was left alone on a huge beach among dozens of dolphins dying.

"I will never forget their cries when they looked at me when I sat next to them in the water. They were desperately trying to swim, but their weight was only tightening them even more in the sand, she wrote on Instagram. "It broke my heart."

She noticed a very small dolphin and tried to bring it back to the sea. The adult dolphins were impossible to move and she managed to draw a small one.

"I used all my strength to bring him back to the water, but he was repeatedly thrown on the sand," said Liz Bi-bi-si. "After Julian's departure, I sat there with that dolphin boy."

"You feel fear in these animals, they look at you. They look and their eyes are like people. "

During the hours that followed, she had no choice but to sit and wait.

"I knew that sooner or later, they would all die anyway," Liz wrote on Instagram. "I was standing up to my knees in the sand, screaming in desperation and roaring, completely alone, cries of dozens of dolphins dying behind my back."

"There were tears in the eyes"

A few hours later, Julian returned with a group of rangers. They were able to badess the situation, but the night was condensed and it became clear that nothing could be done to fix it.

At that time, most dolphins were still in the water and high tide too. Liz and Julian returned to the scene of their stay in the hope that perhaps, during the night, two flocks could themselves return to the ocean.

However, in the morning, Julian and Liz were waiting for an even more heartbreaking picture.

There was a low tide and the dolphins were lying in the dry sand. Some are already dead, others – were lying on the beach, boiling alive under the hot sun.

"They had tears in their eyes," says Liz. "They seemed to cry and make sad sounds."

It was clear that the animals could not be saved.

Trailing a dolphin requires at least five people, and this beach, as well as an island in general, is so far away that there was no hope of having the time to go out. bring help. Only a few hundred people live all over the island.

The hunters were forced to make a decision that they themselves described as painfully difficult: to lull the remaining animals.

The only alternative was to let them die of a slow and painful death over the next few days.

In the Conservation Department of New Zealand, they said they would leave dead animals on the beach for nature to take care of.

According to environmentalists, the reasons why whales and dolphins are thrown to shore are not perfectly clear. These cases occur quite often, but mainly for individual individuals. "Suicides" of marine mammals are rare.

Perhaps a group of dolphins could lose their orientation due to a too gentle slope of the shore, or the animals were indisposed.

Other reasons may be too fast, the pursuit by predators or weather anomalies.

In addition, black dolphins are very sociable. So, when one of them goes astray and fails, others may follow him to try to help him, explained the Department of Nature Conservation. .