{"id":1811,"date":"2013-06-09T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/09\/common-dolphins-and-ocean-sunfis\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:30:12","slug":"common-dolphins-and-ocean-sunfis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/common-dolphins-and-ocean-sunfis\/","title":{"rendered":"Common dolphins and an ocean sunfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis morning we had&nbsp;a tour on our catamaran &#8220;Cetus&#8221;. It was a beautiful day on the sea and it didn&#8217;t take us long to reach a group of <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\">common dolphins<\/a>. It was a large group spread out and there were many baby dolphins in the group. We also tried to look for a baleen whale species that our watchman had spotted further offshore, but unfortunately after some searching we did not find the whale. What we found instead was a large ocean <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sunfish-fact-sheet.html\">sunfish (<em>Mola mola<\/em>)<\/a> on our way back to Ponta Delgada.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSome of our photos from this morning:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_7975-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_7975-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Common dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_7990-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_7990-1.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=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_8006-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_8006-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Sunfish dorsal fin<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_8019-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_8019-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Watching the sunfish<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_8022-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_8022-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<i>Sunfish<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning we had&nbsp;a tour on our catamaran &#8220;Cetus&#8221;. 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