{"id":1533,"date":"2014-06-20T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/whale-watching-and-visit-to-volcano-in\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:32:00","slug":"whale-watching-and-visit-to-volcano-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/whale-watching-and-visit-to-volcano-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Watching and a visit to a volcano in the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday is a typical summer’s day in S\u00e3o Miguel, Azores. Our day was spent whale watching, swimming with dolphins and for some also snorkeling inside a lagoon inside an extinct volcanic crater in the ocean (Vila Franca Islet). Today marks the first day of the season that we are running our “full day tour<\/a>” which includes whale watching in the morning, a local lunch in Vila Franca and an afternoon spent snorkeling in the islet which is a protected area and great place to see a variety of fish. In the morning our whale watchers first encountered bottlenose dolphins<\/a> together wth some common dolphins<\/a> close to Ponta Delgada and later sperm whales<\/a>. After some waiting we encountered two sperm whales at the surface, one of which was a large male and showed a beautiful high tail. We also had a boat going out to swim with dolphins in the morning and they had a great underwater experience with the bottlenose dolphins<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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\nIn the afternoon we started the trip with a playful group of common dolphins but we soon left the area looking for some sperm whales. Unfortunately these sperm whales never showed up and we found instead a nice group of Atlantic spotted dolphin<\/a> feeding together with Cory’s shearwaters<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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\nSwimming with bottlenose dolphins<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n

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\nLarge male sperm whale<\/a> head (this head can make up one third of the total body length)<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nMale sperm whale<\/a> stretching, showing almost the entire body length<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nMale sperm whale<\/a> diving<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nVila Franca Islet<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nThe lagoon inside Vila Franca Islet<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nRed rock crabs\/Sally lightfoot crabs (Grapsus adsecnsionis)<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nYellow legged gull<\/a> (the only gull species that nests in the Azores)<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nYellow legged gull<\/a> with its chick (one of the first of the season)<\/i>
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\nPhotos from the afternoon from the full day tour to the islet:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n


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