thousands of people go to see him every year. other dolphins come into the harbour and fungie plays with them but when they leave he chooses to stay . fungie likes people and plays with them too . he likes to follow boats too. in 1989 engineers planned to use dynamite explosions to make the harbour bigger.everyone was worried that these explosions might kill fungie so before they started some friends of fungie took a boat to a safe place outside the harbour and made sure he follwed they played with him until the explosions stopped everybody was happy they had helped fungie the friendly dolphin to live safely in dingle harbour