“It’s sort of common knowledge in Dillon Beach that they’re out there now,” said Tom Thornley, a longtime resident of the tiny village. He was talking about bottlenose dolphins.
The bottlenose dolphin, a roughly six to 12-foot cetacean that can live for 50 years, usually reside in southern California water. But Mr. Thornley said people in Dillon Beach who have lived there for years, even decades, are seeing pods of them off the beach for…