{"id":1351,"date":"2015-02-22T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/22\/surrounded-by-dolphins\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:33:14","slug":"surrounded-by-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/surrounded-by-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrounded by dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis morning we were greeted by 3 different dolphin species, starting just a few minutes into the tour outside Ponta Delgada harbour. The first appearance was a small group of <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">common dolphins<\/a>, followed by an even smaller group of <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/striped-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">striped dolphins<\/a>. These ones were not interested in us, so we left them to their business and found more dolphins further west. We ended up having some nice encounters with more common dolphins and <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bottlenose dolphins<\/a>. We also spotted 3 <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/06\/caretta-caretta-loggerhead-turtle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loggerhead turtles<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/portuguese-man-o-war-fact-sheet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portuguese man-o-war<\/a> and plenty of seabirds.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSC_0935-C\u00f3pia.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSC_0935-C\u00f3pia.png\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/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\/02\/DSC_0936-C\u00f3pia.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSC_0936-C\u00f3pia.png\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Common dolphins close to shore<\/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\/02\/DSC_0960-C\u00f3pia.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSC_0960-C\u00f3pia.png\" 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\/02\/DSC_0975-C\u00f3pia.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSC_0975-C\u00f3pia.png\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/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\/02\/DSC_0949-C\u00f3pia.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSC_0949-C\u00f3pia.png\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i>Portuguese man-o-war<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning we were greeted by 3 different dolphin species, starting just a few minutes into the tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,4,50,238,103,76],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - 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