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\n<\/a>During the summer months Futurismo offers the “Full Day Tour” This package consists of whale and dolphin watching in the morning, a lunch of local food (with the choice of freshly caught fish) in Vila Franca do Campo and an afternoon of snorkelling and relaxing in Vila Franca Islet. On this day we had our full day tour with a group of Dutch clients. The morning was spent on our boat “Song of Whales” and although we didn’t encounter any whales we had some great encounters with bottlenose dolphins<\/a>, Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a> and common dolphins<\/a>. The sea was perfect, basically it couldn’t get any better. We also had the chance to observe seabirds such as the Cory’s shearwater<\/a>, common tern<\/a>, roseate tern<\/a> and yellow-legged gull<\/a>. After a relaxed lunch in Vila Franca we made the crossing to the islet where we enjoyed a beautiful afternoon exploring the wildlife of the islet. Below are some photos from this day:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\nAtlantic spotted dolphins, mother and calf<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nAtlantic spotted dolphin in crystal clear water<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nAtlantic spotted dolphin bowriding in front of our boat<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nCommon dolphin<\/em><\/div>\n

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

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\nCory’s shearwater<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nPassing the islet on our way to lunch in Vila Franca<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nAboard “Song of Whales”<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nVila Franca Islet from a distance<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nEntering Vila Franca marina<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nLunch in Vila Franca (with the islet as our backdrop)<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nThe restaurant where we eat lunch<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nLocally caught fish (black scabbard fish shown on the nearest plate)<\/em> <\/div>\n
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\nThe lagoon inside Vila Franca Islet<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nSnorkelling in the islet (watching an ornate wrasse)<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nSeastar (Ophidiaster ophidianus<\/em>)<\/div>\n

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\nSeabream<\/div>\n

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\nGoldlines<\/div>\n

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\nLeaving the Islet at the end of the afternoon<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the summer months Futurismo offers the “Full Day Tour” This package consists of whale and dolphin watching in the morning, a…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,3,10,20,286,4,238,244,285,289,102,123],"yoast_head":"\nFuturismo's Full Day Tour - 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\/futurismos-full-day-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Futurismo's Full Day Tour - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"During the summer months Futurismo offers the “Full Day Tour” This package consists of whale and dolphin watching in the morning, a…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/futurismos-full-day-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-04T15:40:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:30:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GOPR2227-C\u00f3pia.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"150\" \/>\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\/futurismos-full-day-tour\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GOPR2227-Copia.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/GOPR2227-Copia.jpg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":150},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/futurismos-full-day-tour\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/futurismos-full-day-tour\/\",\"name\":\"Futurismo's Full Day Tour - 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