{"id":1424,"date":"2014-10-06T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/watching-dolphins-and-natural-beauty-of\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:32:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:32:48","slug":"watching-dolphins-and-natural-beauty-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/watching-dolphins-and-natural-beauty-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching dolphins and the natural beauty of Vila Franca Islet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday we returned to the ocean and had some great encounters with our resident species, the common dolphin<\/a> and the bottlenose dolphin<\/a>. We also had the pleasure of enjoying the natural beauty of Vila Franca Islet, on which we saw some of the species that nest there, such as the common tern<\/a> and rock pigeon<\/a>. In the afternoon we also had a more rare sighting of a little egret<\/a> on the islet. It was a windy day, but in the afternoon the sun came out, so all in all it was another pleasant day out on the ocean in the middle of the Atlantic.<\/div>\n
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\nA close encounter with a bottlenose dolphin<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

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

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\nBottlenose dolphin<\/a> surfacing<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nWatching common dolphins<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphin<\/a> leaping next to our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nApproaching Vila Franca islet and enjoying the afternoon sunshine<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nLittle egret<\/a> flying over Vila Franca Islet<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we returned to the ocean and had some great encounters with our resident species, the common dolphin…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,4,79,123],"yoast_head":"\nWatching dolphins and the natural beauty of Vila Franca Islet - 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\/watching-dolphins-and-natural-beauty-of\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watching dolphins and the natural beauty of Vila Franca Islet - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we returned to the ocean and had some great encounters with our resident species, the common dolphin…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/watching-dolphins-and-natural-beauty-of\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-10-06T17:56:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:32:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0169-C\u00f3pia.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"426\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Azores Whales\",\"description\":\"Azores Whale Watching Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/watching-dolphins-and-natural-beauty-of\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0169-C\\u00f3pia.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSC_0169-C\\u00f3pia.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":426},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/watching-dolphins-and-natural-beauty-of\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/watching-dolphins-and-natural-beauty-of\/\",\"name\":\"Watching dolphins and the natural beauty of Vila Franca Islet - 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