{"id":390,"date":"2018-09-18T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/august-2018-sighting-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:38:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:38:24","slug":"august-2018-sighting-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/august-2018-sighting-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2018 Sighting and statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">August<br \/>\nwas a fantastic month for our sightings.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">We went out every day and had lots of<br \/>\nsurprises. We saw a total of 12 different species.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">Bottlenose dolphins, common<br \/>\ndolphins, and sperm whales were the species we saw the most in our tours.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">We<br \/>\nalso had the presence of our summer visitors: the Atlantic spotted dolphins and<br \/>\n3 species of beaked whales that we got to see very well even though they are<br \/>\nvery shy and do not like the presence of boats.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;\">\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">Fingers crossed so this month is at<br \/>\nleast as good in number of species an weather conditions.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background: white; 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