{"id":1510,"date":"2014-07-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/full-day-tour-whale-watching-and-visit\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:32:11","slug":"full-day-tour-whale-watching-and-visi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/full-day-tour-whale-watching-and-visi\/","title":{"rendered":"Full day tour – whale watching and a visit to Vila Franca Islet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDuring the summer months Futurismo offers a full day tour which comprises a morning of whale watching, a lunch of local and freshly caught fish and an afternoon spent snorkeling inside the crater lagoon of Vila Franca Islet. The extinct volcanic crater “Vila Franca Islet” is a protected area so fishing is not allowed here and the area is protected for the seabirds (such as the Cory’s shearwater<\/a> and common tern<\/a>) that nest here. Today we enjoyed the morning with 3 dolphin species (common dolphins<\/a>, bottlenose dolphins<\/a> and Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a>) followed by sperm whales<\/a>. We saw an adult who dived and from its tail we can identify it as number 81 in our catalogue, a large female sperm whale who we have seen here in S\u00e3o Miguel once before, on June 18th 2010. We also came across a younger calf on our way in to Vila Franca do Campo where we enjoyed a lunch with a view over the marina. The water in the islet was very clear today so we had a great view of the great diversity of fish underwater. <\/div>\n
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\nCommon dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphins bowriding one of our boats<\/i><\/div>\n

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

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\nAtlantic spotted dolphin leaping out of the waves<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale “logging” at the surface<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale fluking<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale ID photo (individual number 81 in our catalogue)<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nThicklip grey mullet (Chelon labrosus<\/i>) in the islet lagoon<\/div>\n

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\nGoldline (Sarpa salpa<\/i>) feeding along the bottom of the lagoon<\/div>\n

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\nOrnate wrasse (Thalassoma pavo<\/i>)<\/div>\n

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\nMale rainbow wrasse (Coris julis<\/i>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the summer months Futurismo offers a full day tour which comprises a morning of whale watching, a…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,3,10,286,4,57,242,123],"yoast_head":"\nFull day tour - whale watching and a visit to 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\/full-day-tour-whale-watching-and-visi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Full day tour - whale watching and a visit to Vila Franca Islet - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"During the summer months Futurismo offers a full day tour which comprises a morning of whale watching, a…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/full-day-tour-whale-watching-and-visi\/?lang=pt-pt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-07-10T18:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:32:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC_0001-C\u00f3pia.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"428\" \/>\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\/full-day-tour-whale-watching-and-visi\/?lang=pt-pt#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC_0001-C\\u00f3pia.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC_0001-C\\u00f3pia.png\",\"width\":640,\"height\":428},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/full-day-tour-whale-watching-and-visi\/?lang=pt-pt#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/full-day-tour-whale-watching-and-visi\/?lang=pt-pt\",\"name\":\"Full day tour - 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