{"id":2419,"date":"2008-04-01T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/perfect-end-to-march\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:26:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:26:56","slug":"perfect-end-to-marc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/perfect-end-to-marc\/","title":{"rendered":"A perfect end to March!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<span style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last day of March was nice and sunny with a beautiful sea and a lot of animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIn the morning we went to the east side. Our first stop was to observe some <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bottlenose dolphins<\/a>, then we set off again to try to see some whales. Before we reached the area of the whales we made another stop to watch some <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sowerbys-beaked-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sowerby&#8217;s beaked whales<\/a>. There were two whales in the area, although we just saw one of them, a large adult. In the end we did not see the <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sperm whales<\/a> that were around today, but we did have two more encounters, one with a turtle and the other with <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/common-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">common dolphins<\/a> near Ponta Gar\u00e7a.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIn the afternoon our <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/vigias-onshore-lookouts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vigia (onshore lookout)<\/a> informed us that we had sperm whales, <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/pilot-whale-spp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pilot whales<\/a>, beaked whales and dolphins to see. Before our cetacean encounters we spotted a young <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sunfish-fact-sheet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sunfish (<i>Mola mola<\/i>)<\/a>. Next we saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bottlenose dolphins<\/a>, a large male <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.pt\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sperm whale<\/a> (more than 15 m in length) and a large group of at least 25 to 30 pilot whales. Everybody got the chance to see all the different species spotted by our vigia. On our way back to Ponta Delgada we saw the bottlenose dolphins again, making a perfect end to our tour and the month of March.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_oP1dI2XxmSE\/R_Kt-FBgBzI\/AAAAAAAAAFk\/HzbI6oVFbkI\/s1600-h\/Piloto.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"416\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184397403068827442\" src=\"https:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_oP1dI2XxmSE\/R_Kt-FBgBzI\/AAAAAAAAAFk\/HzbI6oVFbkI\/s1600\/Piloto.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; text-align: right;\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<i>One of the pilot whales seen this afternoon<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last day of March was nice and sunny with a beautiful sea and a lot of animals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,4,92,242,101,28],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A perfect end to March! 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