{"id":2065,"date":"2012-04-17T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/more-blue-whales-curious-dolphins-sei\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:28:34","slug":"more-blue-whales-curious-dolphins-sei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/more-blue-whales-curious-dolphins-sei\/","title":{"rendered":"More blue whales, curious dolphins, sei whales and a fin whale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday was another incredible day with clear skies, calm seas and many cetacean species for us to see. In the morning we had our catamaran and a smaller boat on the water and we were able to show our clients two different blue whales<\/a> (the first one was the same individual we have already sighted twice in this past week), common dolphins<\/a> and bottlenose dolphins<\/a>. In the afternoon had a dolphin swimming tour and another boat for whale watching. Those on the swimming boat had an excellent encounter with bottlenose dolphins, and even had a bonus sighting of a minke whale among the dolphins. For our whale watching clients we started with the same bottlenose dolphins and also saw common dolphins (a very curious group of individuals that were really playing with our boat) and a fin whale<\/a> and minke whale<\/a> together. And finally, here are some of our photos from today:<\/div>\n

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\nBlue whale blow! (Santa Maria Island in the background)<\/em><\/div>\n

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\n From aboard our catamaran: our smaller boat, blue whale and Santa Maria Island<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nOur first blue whale this morning<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nAnd our second blue whale!<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nOur swimming boat: Preparing to swim with bottlenose dolphins<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nThere were at least 30 dolphins in this group!<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nThe dolphins all travelling together and passing close to our boats<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins: our residents<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nWatching our resident common dolphins<\/em><\/div>\n
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\nThe common dolphins were swimming calmly right alongside our boat!<\/em><\/div>\n

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\nA very curious dolphin rolling on its side and looking up at our passengers!!<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today was another incredible day with clear skies, calm seas and many cetacean species for us to see.…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[179,143,3,201,10,27,4,26,284,110,254],"yoast_head":"\nMore blue whales, curious dolphins, sei whales and a fin whale - 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\/more-blue-whales-curious-dolphins-sei\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More blue whales, curious dolphins, sei whales and a fin whale - 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