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\nToday was a bit of a mixed day out on the ocean. We started the morning with a bit of rain and mist like yesterday, but still we had some lovely encounters with two of our resident dolphin species: the bottlenose dolphin<\/a> and the common dolphin<\/a>. The bottlenose dolphins were the usual ones that have been dominating the south coast of S\u00e3o Miguel island over the past months: the group that includes a well known dolphin that we call Bubblemaker because this one is almost always blowing a trail of bubbles before surfacing. <\/div>\n
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\nIn the afternoon we started again with the bottlenose dolphin<\/a> group of Bubblemaker. We didn’t stay with them for long because we received news from one of our lookouts<\/a> that he had spotted some baleen whales a bit further out. The baleen whales turned out to be fin whales<\/a>…3 of them travelling together! We had a nice encounter with 2 large adults and a smaller juvenile. After our whale encounter we still had more dolphins to see. From our catamaran we had a great and energetic encounter with a group of striped dolphins<\/a> that was mixed with a few common dolphins<\/a>. For our zodiac clients there was an extra encounter with a loggerhead turtle<\/a> to add to our species list of the day. We also had a rare close-up encounter with a curious pomarine skua<\/a> that was flying over our boats during our fin whale encounter. What a day!<\/div>\n

\nPhotos from the morning:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nEnjoying the ride on our zodiac boat<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nWatching bottlenose dolphins from our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nOur 2 zodiac boats out on the water<\/i><\/div>\n

\nPhotos from the afternoon:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nOne of the adult fin whales<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nThe other adult fin whale<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nWatching the fin whales from our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nThe blowholes of one of the fin whales<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nOne of our zodiac boats with the fin whales<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n2 of the fin whales at the surface together<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nStriped dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nStriped dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nStriped dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\n Striped dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nWatching striped dolphins from our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nPomarine skua<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCory’s shearwaters<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

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\nLoggerhead turtle<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today was a bit of a mixed day out on the ocean. We started the morning with a…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[179,3,201,10,20,27,4,50,79,254],"yoast_head":"\nDolphins and fin whales - 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\/dolphins-and-fin-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dolphins and fin whales - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today was a bit of a mixed day out on the ocean. 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