Hundreds of dolphins and a sperm whale today in Ponta Delgada

Today we really work as a perfect team! We left the marina crossing a wall of rain to encounter a beautiful winter day with rainbows all over every now and then.

Our lookouts gave us information soon in the morning to head quite far from the coast to try to see some big animals. But as soon as we started the trip, we started to see common dolphins.

First just a small group, curious towards our boat; but after a few miles… Hundreds of common dolphins! They were very spread out, but some were always bow-riding our boats. We could even see another “black edition” dolphin. As you know, common dolphins have yellow on the side, but some of the individuals (quite rare!) they don’t!

See the differences between the first one and the second below 🙂

We kept on heading to the sperm whale area, but it was totally covered by the rain. The lookouts couldn’t find the whales anymore… But… we use our secret tool from our rubber boat: the hydrophone! And guess what… we listen some nice clicks underwater, which gave our watchmen some new info to re-start the search. We listen to them in several occasions, and when we didn’t… time to come to the surface! Our catamaran found the blow and we all had the opportunity to see the sperm whale a few times. And even to take some photos of it and its amazing “curly” tail. Probably a new one for our catalogue!