{"id":2060,"date":"2012-04-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/21\/perfect-afternoon-with-many-sightings\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:28:34","slug":"perfect-afternoon-with-many-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/perfect-afternoon-with-many-sightings\/","title":{"rendered":"A perfect afternoon with many sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis afternoon we had a really amazing tour with sightings of a <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/fin-whale.html\">fin whale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/minke-whale.html\">minke whale<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\">common dolphins<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/striped-dolphin.html\">striped dolphins<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/06\/caretta-caretta-loggerhead-turtle.html\">loggerhead turtle<\/a> and a huge sunfish! We didn&#8217;t get good photos of all the species sighted, but here are a few good ones of the fin whale and the sunfish&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0276-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"427\" qda=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0276-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n&nbsp;<em>Fin whale surfacing coming in our direction<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0277-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"427\" qda=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0277-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<em>Huge fin whale with one of our other boats in the background<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0291-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"425\" qda=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0291-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/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=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0293-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"425\" qda=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0293-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;\">\n&nbsp;Fin whale<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0268-1-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"425\" qda=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0268-1-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/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=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0270-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"425\" qda=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0270-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;\">\n&nbsp;<em>Very large sunfish at the surface!!<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This afternoon we had a really amazing tour with sightings of a fin whale, minke whale, common dolphins,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[179,10,27,4,50,76,101],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - 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