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Today we had a lovely day. We had a big sun in the sky and very flat and amazing blue ocean.
In the morning, our resident species showed up starting our journey with at least 15 sperm whales socializing playing very calm and peaceful.
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| Baby sperm whale tail |
After the beautiful sperm whales, we went for the dolphins and we saw big groups of bottlenose and of common dolphins. We had a sad moment in one of our rubber boats as we saw a turtle, and when we approached it very happy to show to our clients, we realize it was dead, it had some signals of having been already dead for a while, this is a very sad thing to see in the ocean, but it makes us and everybody more aware about the reality of our oceans.
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| Dead turtle |
In the afternoon we had exactly the same species and the same group of bottlenose dolphins and sperm whales. We started by seeing a sperm whale jumping really far away, but when we got there it got shy and stopped. At a certain moment, we had the bottlenose and the sperm whales all together but in the end, the whales were alone and all together. Some of our boats also had the opportunity to see Risso’s dolphins and striped dolphins.
We’ve got to see many sperm whale tails and all at the same time. The bottlenose dolphins showed up again and started to play with the boat and to jump around. When going back to Ponta Delgada we still got to see some common dolphins very interest and playfull with our boats. Some of our boats also had the opportunity to see Risso’s dolphins and Striped dolphins.
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Futurismo Biologists Team
Sandrina Rodrigues
