{"id":1698,"date":"2013-09-18T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/18\/dolphins-whales-and-hammerhead-shark\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:30:52","slug":"dolphins-whales-and-hammerhead-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/dolphins-whales-and-hammerhead-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins, whales and a hammerhead shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSummer is still in the Azores and we continue to have good sightings. In the morning we encountered groups of <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\">common dolphins<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/atlantic-spotted-dolphin.html\">Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a>. The whales were too far for us in the morning but one of our biologists spotted a <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/hammerhead-shark-fact-sheet.html\">hammerhead shark<\/a> from aboard our catamaran so we had a bonus encounter with this small shark that measured about 1.5 m in lenght. In the afternoon we resighted the common dolphins and after the dolphins we saw Mr. Liable, our famous <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sperm whale<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-pS3LYXcHFPs\/UjmplIkXQTI\/AAAAAAAAHZM\/tBYIMuvc2tA\/s1600\/DSC_0880.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0880-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i>First photo of the day &#8211; a beautiful rainbow over the marina on our way out<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-svODX12twQE\/UjniBtFmaLI\/AAAAAAAAC2Q\/m78Ne4nuN3I\/s1600\/IMG_5902.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_5902-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Common dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-d3OUcChkDIg\/UjniBnLH-OI\/AAAAAAAAC2A\/IiW3VnOiy8A\/s1600\/IMG_5914.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_5914-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/hammerhead-shark-fact-sheet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hammerhead shark<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WM7-UydTZRM\/UjmrN8K49SI\/AAAAAAAAHZY\/USoe2ovAKNQ\/s1600\/DSC_0884.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0884-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-rQCQHQ_pSZE\/UjmrN9Vh_QI\/AAAAAAAAHZc\/95jA1SqkI2g\/s1600\/DSC_0885.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0885-1.jpg\" width=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZBuwXMj26hk\/UjniB9y-oZI\/AAAAAAAAC2E\/3nksZlF4MYc\/s1600\/IMG_5932.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_5932-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i>Mr. Liable<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Mr. Liable logging<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer is still in the Azores and we continue to have good sightings. 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