Clare-based photographer on the friendship with a dolphin that changed his life

Clare-based photographer George Karbus formed a bond with a dolphin that changed his life, says Richard Fitzpatrick

RARELY have the lives of a man and a dolphin been so entwined. The Czech wildlife photographer George Karbus got to know Dusty the dolphin a dozen years ago.

He moved to the west coast of Ireland in the summer of 2004, initially living in a tent in Salthill, Co Galway with his Czech girlfriend, Kate Hamsikova, before drifting down the coast to Lahinch, Co Clare, where the pair now live on the outskirts of the seaside village with their two children.