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\nToday was a day full of sperm whale<\/a> tails, especially in the afternoon when we saw a whole series of them, one whale after the other. We were lucky that for the second day in the row our catamaran captain found the sperm whales for all of us despite the poor visibility over the island that made this job difficult for our coastal based lookouts. The catamaran team spent the morning with an adult and juvenile pair who were up at the surface for a while before the adult dived and showed her tail. Our zodiac boat clients had a very lucky close up encounter with a very curious sperm whale that came very close to their boat. The boat remained still as the whale lingered around and one of our clients was able to get an amazing underwater video of this whale, check out this amazing footage, in which you can also here the ecolocation clicks made by the whale, by clicking HERE. <\/div>\n
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\nIn the afternoon we encountered even more sperm whales, many of them and all of them showing us their wonderful tails. We took many ID photographs and we could determine it is a group we know very well and includes individuals such as “Orca”, “Left tip” and “Small u”. Before these whale encounters we also had a nice enounter with a small group of bottlenose dolphins<\/a> close to shore. Our swimming boats stayed with them for the rest of the afternoon and enjoyed some nice swims with these curious dolphins.<\/div>\n
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\nPhotos from the morning:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nThe adult turned out to be a familiar whale we call “Bear paw”<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nPhotos from the afternoon:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nSwimming with bottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nOur first sperm whale of the afternoon – one we call “Small u”<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nThe very distinctive dorsal fin of a sperm whale we call “Orca”<\/i><\/div>\n

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\n“Orca’s” tail<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nA sperm whale we call “Left tip”<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nThe last surprise of the day – a small loggerhead turtle<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n
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