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Wonderful morning!! After two days on land because the wind, today we return to the big blue and it was amazing! This morning we saw 4 species!! We saw three resident species and one seasonal species.
The morning trip started with a small group of common dolphins but suddenly more and more individuals arrived to our catamaran. Our guests could see the characteristic pattern of colours of the common dolphins, with their yellow sides.
Then, we received the information of our lookouts from land that they saw a sperm whale blow further. So, quickly we headed to that area but in the way we found a group of seasonal species, Atlantic spotted dolphins, which only arrive when waters temperatures are over 20ºC.
After a bit with these beautiful dolphins, we left the area and finally we arrived to the sperm whale to see it was Mr Liable, our famous resident male sperm whale which we are seeing during the last days. As per usual he didn’t fail to show the magnificent tail.
Returning to Ponta Delgada, we were followed by the Atlantic spotted dolphins, it was crazy the amount of dolphins jumping all the time.
And finally we encountered a group of bottlenose dolphins with calves and doing a common behaviour in dolphins, the bow ridding, just being pushed by our bow and the waves that we created.
Continuing the wonderful day we went out with high hopes and the animals delivered! Started by seeing thousands of Atlantic Spotted dolphins after 30 minutes of travelling who were perfect, feeding and socializing. Because of the clear day we could see as far as 10m underwater and all that space full of dolphins playing with each other and the boat.
We had the information that a baleen whale was around and soon after we spotted the blow!! We had to go slowly since the dolphins were covering the sea and eventually we got to the Sei whale who was in a feeding behaviour so staying in the surface just for quick breaths.
After a few minutes accompanying the whale we left her alone to complete feeding and with its daily life so we went closer to shore in the hopes to find any more species, resident dolphins, and yes!
A small group of happy and social common dolphins who loved racing the boat.
In one of our rib boats, they used the hydrophone and finally they found again Mr. Liable, like in the morning because they could hear the clicks.
A group of bottlenose dolphins appeared in our way back happily, we could enjoy that moment with them.
Eventually we left them as well completing our day at the sea in this amazing summer like day
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| Cory’s shearwater |
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| A loggerhead turtle |
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Futurismo Biologists Team
Sandrina Rodrigues
