{"id":1922,"date":"2012-10-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/14\/whale-watching-and-great-swimming-with\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:29:23","slug":"whale-watching-and-great-swimming-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/whale-watching-and-great-swimming-wi\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale watching and great swimming with bottlenose dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday we had whale watching in the morning and swimming with dolphins in the afternoon. Boat tours were really good with great sea conditions and many cetacean sightings. In the morning we sighted Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a>, a very social group of bottlenose dolphins<\/a> and sperm whales<\/a>. The sperm whale group was one that we recognise from previous years and we were able to identify two individuals from their tails.<\/p>\n

See a video filmed from our catamaran, of a sperm whale diving here<\/a>.<\/b><\/div>\n

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\nIn the afternoon we swam with the bottlenose dolphins that we sighted in the morning. The dolphins were socialising and were very curious towards the swimmers in the water. All of us managed to get a really good look at the group of about 15 dolphins.<\/div>\n
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\nSee underwater video footage of the swimming with dolphins here<\/a>.<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nPhotos from the morning whale watching:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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\nWatching bottlenose dolphins from our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n

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

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

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\nSperm whale<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale (“Pinkie” first photographed here October 2008)<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nOur zodiac boat<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nWatching a sperm whale from our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nWatching a sperm whale from our catamaran<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale (“Sumo Wrestler” first photographed here July 2010 and seen before with “Pinkie”)<\/i><\/div>\n

\nPhotos from the afternoon swimming with dolphins:<\/span><\/b>
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