{"id":365,"date":"2018-10-18T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/a-sunny-calm-day-with-lots-of-marine\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:38:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:38:33","slug":"a-sunny-calm-day-with-lots-of-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-sunny-calm-day-with-lots-of-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"A sunny calm day with lots of marine wildlife in whale watching tours in the Azores"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday was a sunny calm day that reminded us of summer. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe best part was that we had plenty of whales and dolphins to see during the day. The dolphins were bottlenose dolphins, a nice group of about 50-60 individuals that we saw near Ponta Delgada during both the morning and afternoon tours. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe whales were our resident sperm whales; two different family groups that we saw during the day.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn the morning we saw our famous “red group” <\/a>which is our most encountered group and includes some whales that we know since at least 2003. From this group we could identify a sperm whale we call “Orca” and another we call “Diamond”. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn the afternoon we encountered the “pink group”<\/a> that we know since at least 2010. Once again we could identify two members, known as “Peregrine” and “Angel”.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nPhotos by Laura Gonz\u00e1lez and Miranda van der Linde <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nSperm whale tail <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale tail <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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\nSperm whale identified<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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\nFishing tuna<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphin<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphin<\/b><\/div>\n
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