{"id":187,"date":"2019-05-29T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/a-day-full-of-surprises-with-sperm\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:39:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:39:32","slug":"a-day-full-of-surprises-with-sper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-day-full-of-surprises-with-sper\/","title":{"rendered":"A day full of surprises with sperm whales and a humpback whale"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nToday we had a nice surprise not too far from the coast! We had a sighting of some sperm whales<\/a>, but they are usually found in deeper waters than what we saw today! Our lookout had found them right in front of Ponta Delgada, approximately 8 miles from the coast, where the water is around 200m deep. <\/span>
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\nWe had a mother and calf\/juvenile, some more females, and most likely a male too. They were foraging, so that meant that they were diving a lot, which resulted in seeing lots of flukes of the sperm whales! <\/span><\/p>\n
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\nWe also tried the hydrophone in one of our boats and they were echolocating! <\/span>
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\nOne of our boats even saw a humpback whale<\/a> in another area. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nIn the afternoon trip, we managed to find sperm whales again, after waiting quite some time before they resurfaced. We saw 3 sperm whales. <\/span>
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\nOn the way to another area we saw a few common dolphins<\/a> as well but they were quite shy. All in all another great day!<\/span>
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\nToday we also had a special little guest, Daniel, a Portuguese living in Italy. He had a homework about sea turtles in english for school. We think he learned a lot from our trip!<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nAnd today was also a very special day for two of our guests, just look at this video to know what happened:<\/span>
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