Today we had a playful day on a calm sea with both common dolphins and bottlenose dolphins, morning and afternoon. The bottlenose dolphins were the same friendly group that we have seen for more then a year now and almost everyday; Bubblemakers family. They were active at the surface (and under surface too) making babies. The common dolphins had already done this and we got to enjoy the result: lots of small newborn babies. So cute and playful. We also were lucky to see common tern, Cory’s shearwater, yellow-legged gull, three Manx shearwaters, little egret, buzzards, loggerhead turtles, salps and flying fish.
Photos from the morning:
Common dolphin baby
Mother and baby
Leaping bottlenose dolphin
Swimming with bottlenose dolphins
A close encounter
Enjoying the ride
Loggerhead turtle waving hello
Photos from the afternoon:
Bottlenose dolphins
Watching bottlenose dolphins
Watching common dolphins
A beautiful little egret on Vila Franca Islet
Swimming with bottlenose dolphins
Enjoying the sunshine on our catamaran
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