Five species in one trip!!

We continue with our
amazing spring encounters! Today we did a remarkable trip where we saw five
different species; we were out of time to see all what the sea was offering to
us. We started our trip with
common dolphins all over our way to the baleen whale area, they were just
appearing everywhere; we stop to see some Risso’s dolphins for a while and then
we continued towards the area of where our lookout spotted a fin whale, for our
surprise when we arrived we has two whales surfacing together and very close to
our boat. In Futurismo we applied the whale watching rules in order to respect
the animals and we always leave some distance, but of curse they don’t follow
any rule, and when they are in the mood they like to approach us. Today it was
that case with the whales.

After that we decided to
try to go to another area, where some sperm whales were seen by our lookout,
when we arrived we had the luck to see two of them spy hopping ; they were very
calm just laying and resting at the surface. It was already time to go
back to Ponta Delgada but in our way back a group of around 50 bottlenosedolphin started playing with our catamaran and bow riding; so we stay with them
for a while. Clients of today’s trip
where really lucky as well as the biologist on board.

Check the photos of the
trip: