A humpback whale and hundreds of dolphins in São Miguel today

We had one more opportunity to return to the ocean!! 

This time we went to the west side of the island, close to the airport. Our lookout had a little difficulty seeing the animals due to the fog. We then found one common dolphin near a fishing vessels with a group of about 30 very young bottlenose dolphins. 

Today these animals were not very interested because they were eating. From time to time they came close to the vessel, but they spent most of the sighting eating and doing deep dives.

As they didn’t want to play with us, we decided to leave the area and move then to an area where we had many common dolphins, hundreds of very curious common dolphins! Suddenly we saw a blow in the distance … and off we went in an attempt to see a whale!

Everyone were very focused, even the customers, looking around to help to find this humpback whale that it seemed to be playing hide and seek with us. Suddenly the whale jumped next to our boat, making a big splash. Unfortunately we were unable to photograph this behavior because the whale decided just to jump one time. 

We continued in the same area trying to see this animal again, but we always saw the blows in the distance … but at least the common dolphins accompanied our entire trip, full of energy to play and jump. Another magical morning!