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With the wind blowing north we started the our morning tour
with some cold but also with the second largest animal in the world, fin whales
everywhere!
There was spouts everywhere we looked! The fin whales are also one
of fastest whales, reaching up to 47 km/h so as you can imagine sometimes it
can be very hard to keeping up with them. One of the whales was a mother with
their baby, always next to her. A very big pod of bottlenose dolphins were the
perfect end to our morning.
Fin whales – mother and juvenile seen in the morning
Fin whale
Fin whale blow
Fin whale
Fin whale
In the afternoon the species were the same. This time we had two adult fin whales always in the front of our boat and mantaining the same direction. The same group of bottlenose dolphins that we sighted in the mornig apeared again …apparantley they missed us. They were very tight together as group what make us easier to see them.
Bottlenose dolphins close to Ponta Delgada
Whale watching tour in São Miguel Island
Bottlenose dolphin juvenile surfacing high
Bottlenose dolphins close to Ponta Delgada
In Pico Island we saw Fin whales very curious and one of them passes under your boat! What an emotion! We also encountered Striped and Common dolphins.
Fin whale blowhole
Fin whale blow
Common dolphins
Striped dolphins
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Futurismo Biologists Team
Sandrina Rodrigues
