{"id":1313,"date":"2015-04-17T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/a-beautiful-morning-with-whales\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:33:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:33:25","slug":"a-beautiful-morning-with-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-beautiful-morning-with-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful morning with whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">We had a beautiful<br \/>\nmorning today, sun shining and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\"><span id=\"goog_1343679094\"><\/span> fin whales<span id=\"goog_1343679095\"><\/span><\/a> waiting for us!&nbsp;<\/span>We started the trip<br \/>\ngoing straight for the whales, following the instructions of our look outs. We<br \/>\nenjoyed the company of two fin whales for a while, they were doing dives for<br \/>\nseven minutes more or less and once on the surface we were able to see the<br \/>\ndistinct white coloration of the right side of the lower jaw.&nbsp;<span lang=\"EN-US\">The fin<br \/>\nwhales were amazing but we wanted more! So, once again with the help of the<br \/>\nlook outs we could find a group of our resident<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #4c1130;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 19.6000003814697px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\">bottlenose dolphins<\/a><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;. They were<br \/>\nspread out in a big area but we could see some of them really close to our<br \/>\nboat. We were happy to see our friend Eg\u00edpcio in this group. Coming back<br \/>\nto the marina we could also see some species of sea birds like <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-tern-fact-sheet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">common terns<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/yellow-legged-gull-fact-sheet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yellow legged gulls<\/a>, of course during the entire trip we came across many <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/corys-shearwater-fact-sheet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cory\u00b4s shearwaters<\/a>. Despite of<br \/>\nthe sun during the morning, we had to cancel the trip in the afternoon due to<br \/>\nthe weather conditions (strong winds and rough sea) but we hope you enjoyed the<br \/>\npictures from the lovely morning!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<b style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;\">Photos from the morning:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<b style=\"background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0b5394;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_3998.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_3998.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Fin whale<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4012.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4012.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Bottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4014.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4014.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Eg\u00edpcio<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4017.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4017.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Bottlenose dolphins with our boat Cafre<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4022.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4022.jpg\" height=\"470\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Common tern<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4023.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MG_4023.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Ponta Delgada<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<b style=\"background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0b5394;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We had a beautiful morning today, sun shining and fin whales waiting for us!&nbsp;We started the trip going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,179,3,27,4,57,244,28,254],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - 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