{"id":1028,"date":"2016-06-03T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/03\/a-chance-encounter-with-humpback-whale\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:35:10","slug":"a-chance-encounter-with-humpback-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-chance-encounter-with-humpback-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"A chance encounter with a humpback whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nToday was another day of not so good weather for whale watching, especially in terms of the bad visibility which reduces our chances of finding whales and dolphins. Nevertheless, our clients today set out to try their luck in these conditions. You never know what you might find if you don&#8217;t try, and today our clients and crew were in for a surprise. Just outside of the marine they came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/humpback-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humpback whale<\/a>! Not once, but twice! During both our morning and afternoon tours this humpback whale was no more than a few hundred metres out of the marina. In the morning our whale watchers also encountered some <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">common dolphins<\/a> and an <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sunfish-fact-sheet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ocean sunfish<\/a>&nbsp;and in the afternoon a <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/06\/caretta-caretta-loggerhead-turtle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loggerhead turtle<\/a>. Although the wet weather didn&#8217;t allow us to get photos of the animals today, the best part was taking the chance and actually seeing them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today was another day of not so good weather for whale watching, especially in terms of the bad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[179,10,4,30,101],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A chance encounter with a humpback whale - Azores Whales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-chance-encounter-with-humpback-whale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A chance encounter with a humpback whale - 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