{"id":231,"date":"2019-05-01T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/01\/two-blue-whales-off-shore-of-sao-miguel\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:39:16","slug":"two-blue-whales-off-shore-of-sao-migue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/two-blue-whales-off-shore-of-sao-migue\/","title":{"rendered":"Two blue whales off the shore of S\u00e3o Miguel island!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">Today in the morning, we went out and we spotted the biggest animal of the world: the <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/blue-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blue whale<\/a>! &nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Facoreswhalewatching%2Fvideos%2F403943336828232%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0001-1024x587.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"918\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0001-1024x587.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0074-1024x662.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1036\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0074-1024x662.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0786-1024x665.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1040\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0786-1024x665.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">At the beginning, it was a bit shy but then the whale showed up and it was not alone! It appeared with another blue whale and a&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/fin-whale.html\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fin whale<\/a><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">, the second biggest animal in the world.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">Later, on the way back to Ponta Delgada, we spotted a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bottlenose dolphins<\/a>. We had a great morning!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">In the afternoon, we went out again and on the way to see the two blue whales, we spotted some bottlenose dolphins. Then, when we arrived to the blue whales and we had such an amazing moment with them, they were really calm and we were able to see them so good.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-font-kerning: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0916-1024x662.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1034\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0916-1024x662.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0953-1024x619.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"968\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC_0953-1024x619.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today in the morning, we went out and we spotted the biggest animal of the world: the blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,23,143,147,3,4,102,12,15],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two blue whales off the shore of S\u00e3o Miguel island! 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