{"id":1511,"date":"2014-07-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/sperm-whales-dolphins-sunfish-and\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:32:11","slug":"sperm-whales-dolphins-sunfish-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sperm-whales-dolphins-sunfish-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Sperm whales, dolphins, a sunfish and a leatherback turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\nIn the morning, three of our zodiacs
\nleft the marina and after only a few minutes we saw our first group of cetaceans: the
\nresident common dolphins<\/a>. They were playful and social towards our boats, jumping
\nand bowriding next to us. After that, we switched groups and dolphin species. Our vigia<\/a> told us to travel more to the south and afterwards, we
\nencountered bottlenose dolphins<\/a>.
\nThey were about 15 individuals, spread out in the area, feeding and socialising
\naround our zodiacs. Meanwhile, between the boats we saw a sunfish<\/a>, the
\nlargest bony fish in the world. Then, we left the area going to the south to
\ntry to find whales. One of our zodiacs, saw two blows one mile out. We get the
\narea but they never appeared again. They were baleen whales, but we don\u00b4t know
\nsure if they were fin whales<\/a> or sei whales<\/a>. The people on our Full day tour<\/a> were more lucky as they encountered some sperm whales more to the East of S\u00e3o Miguel Island. Upon returning to Ponta Delgada, we
\nsaw a group of Risso\u00b4s dolphins<\/a>, more curious than normal, approaching very
\nclose to the boat.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIn the afternoon we went out with two boats. We started with common dolphins again, after them we found a playful group of bottlenose dolphins in the area where our lookout had seen a sperm whale<\/a> diving. We waited around the area for the sperm whale while we were enjoying the bottlenose dolphins surfing the waves. After a while, we could see two sperm whales at the surface, one of them far away but the other one close enough to take pictures of the tail.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nWhen we were coming back to Ponta Delgada, close to the coast line, our skipper Jo\u00e3o found a Leatherback turtle<\/a>!!!It was an amazing encounter with the largest sea turtle species!<\/div>\n

\nPhotos from today:<\/b>
\n
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\n<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nSperm whale diving<\/i><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n

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\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nLeatherback turtle<\/i><\/div>\n

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\n<\/a><\/div>\n

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

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\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nRisso’s dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the morning, three of our zodiacs left the marina and after only a few minutes we saw…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,179,3,10,73,35,242,101],"yoast_head":"\nSperm whales, dolphins, a sunfish and a leatherback turtle - 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\/sperm-whales-dolphins-sunfish-and\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sperm whales, dolphins, a sunfish and a leatherback turtle - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the morning, three of our zodiacs left the marina and after only a few minutes we saw…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sperm-whales-dolphins-sunfish-and\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-07-10T17:00:00+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\/MG_3263.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"373\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\">\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\/sperm-whales-dolphins-sunfish-and\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MG_3263.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MG_3263.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":373},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sperm-whales-dolphins-sunfish-and\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sperm-whales-dolphins-sunfish-and\/\",\"name\":\"Sperm whales, dolphins, a sunfish and a leatherback turtle - 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