{"id":2217,"date":"2011-04-14T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/blue-whale-sei-whale-common-dolphins\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:27:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:27:53","slug":"blue-whale-sei-whale-common-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/blue-whale-sei-whale-common-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue whale, sei whale, common dolphins and a leatherback turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCF6328-1024x683.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595480551250758306\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSCF6328-1024x683.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Leatherback turtle<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\nThe above photo was taken by one of our passengers, Sari Wallin, that she has kindly shared with us. It is a photo of the head of the leatherback turtle we saw during our tour this morning. We do not often see leatherback turtles here, so we were all very excited and most of us (including myself) missed the photo opportunity. We actually managed to get quite close to the turtle as it was lying on the surface among a pod of common dolphins. We got to see its huge shell which was over a metre long, then it lifted up its head and went down on a dive. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0399.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595480543162689650\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0399.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"> <\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Common dolphin <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0394.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595480538865980834\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0394.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a> <em><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Common dolphin <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0361.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595480531120727138\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0361.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><em><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"> Blue whale <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0353.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595480526290999426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/DSC_0353.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<em><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Blue whale<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\nThroughout the day we also had encounters with a blue whale and several sei whales that were passing very close to the coastline. by the early afternoon the huge blue whale had approached the coast to just outside of Ponta Delgada, only a few minutes travel out of the marina. We also had a couple of groups of common dolphins around, which included several very small calves and some very acrobatic individuals. We were able to see the dolphins clearly as they were diving deep under our boat. We were lucky to have another one of those perfect days of crystal clear water here in the Azores.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leatherback turtle The above photo was taken by one of our passengers, Sari Wallin, that she has kindly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[143,10,73,6],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blue whale, sei whale, common dolphins and a leatherback turtle - 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\/blue-whale-sei-whale-common-dolphins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blue whale, sei whale, common dolphins and a leatherback turtle - 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