Another humpback whale feeding, a sperm whale family and more…!

Today we had a typical azorean day! We started the day with a lot of rain and fog… and didn’t we end our morning trip with sunshine? In the Azores we should always bring a change of clothes in our backpack, because everything can change 😉

Today was a long trip, but it was well worth it. We started our day with bottlenose dolphins, very focused on having their breakfast… so we didn’t stay for to long so as not to interfere with their feeding. 

We received news from our lookouts to continue a little more… because they had seen something different, but still not sure what it was. There we went full of hope and betting on what it would be 😀

We started with a huge group of over 100 common dolphins, all eating with seagulls … and in the middle … A HUMPBACK WHALE! It was sharing breakfast with the friendly and acrobatic common dolphins. It was not an easy sighting, because even if the lookouts sees the animals, there is no guarantee that the animals will want our attention and that’s what happened. 

We saw the humpback whale eating once, did a middle water dive and we could only see its long white pectoral fins passing by our boat 🙂

Of this animal we only had the opportunity to see another blow. While we waited for the visibility of our lookout to get better … we received a warning “SPERM WHALES IN THE AREA!” There we went full of hope and desire to see a huge sperm whale family … 10 in total of our sightings and with the possibility of seeing two tails!