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This morning the Futurismo crew was divided into four boats to do whale watching and swimming with dolphins. Everyone wasexcited because the sea was calm and weather was sunny with a fresh wind. After
half an hour traveling and looking at Cory’s shearwaters and some Portuguese man-o-war we
sighted a large fin whale. So far, every day of
May, we have sighted fin whales. After a while the vigia (onshore lookout) alerted us of a group of birds working (flying in a circle and diving trying to catch fish). One of our zodiacs approached the birds in hope to see dolphins and, instead, they sighted yellowfin tuna jumping and feeding on mackerel. On the way back to our marina in Ponta Delgada we kept trying to spot more cetaceans. Some common dolphins appeared, but quickly disappeared. They were busy minding there own business, they might have been hunting as there were lots of Cory’s shearwaters on the surface with their head down in the water to spy on the dolphins.
Photos from today:
Fin whale blow
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| Dorsal fin of the Fin whale |
Before diving
Our zodiacs today
Waiting for the whale to surface, zodiac viewed from our catamaran Cetus
Whale watchers watching the fin whale
Yellow-legged seagull eating a fish in the marina
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Futurismo Biologists Team
Sandrina Rodrigues
