Little we knew about what was coming!

What a lucky day full of whales in São Miguel!
The day started warm at Ponta Delgada’s port. Everything was calm and relax… Little we knew about what was coming!

Soon as the trip was starting we receive the call from our amazing lookouts… Dolphins on sight! We travelled quickly and we arrived to our first morning meeting: a huge group of awesome common dolphins, making their skin glow with the summer sun of the Azores. They were very friendly to us, socializing and bowriding for a while.

Then the second call arrived. This time something bigger was waiting for us in deeper waters. The boats speeded up, but from nowhere a group of Atlantic spotted dolphins appeared, without stopping to say hello to us.
Arriving to deeper waters the animals were already waiting for us. Majestic sperm whales!

First we saw one alone, a beautiful female. She went for a long dive, showing us her huge tail. Then we saw other two whales and finally we were lucky enough to see two adults with a baby. The two adults went for food showing again their tails and the baby remained at the surface waiting for their caretakers to come back.

We started our return to Ponta Delgada but the sea was keeping a final surprise for us; a new group of Atlantic Spotted Dolphins.

This time they were friendlier and stopped to be with us for a while!
Today not even the wind could ruin the journey, it was a new magical experience here in the Azores!

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