{"id":468,"date":"2018-07-05T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/05\/sei-whales-day-in-pico-and-sao-migue\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:37:58","slug":"sei-whales-day-in-pico-and-sao-migue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/sei-whales-day-in-pico-and-sao-migue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sei whales day in Pico and S\u00e3o Miguel Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">In S\u00e3o Miguel Island, we started the day with some waves but was no problem to found the animals.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">Two <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/sei-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sei whales<\/a> side by side always going north. After we got to an area where sperm whales were around, our boat had the company of a shy <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/sperm-whale.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sperm whale<\/a> but at a certain point, we were able to see just a little bit of the tail. Even though we only saw one, we know that in the area there was more than one, probably a family.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">In the afternoon the west wind was part of our trip but we found the third biggest animal in the world, a sei whale! It was very calm, almost sleeping, swimming slowly close to the surface and we were able to follow its shadow all the time.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">It was still possible to see some <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/bottlenose-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bottlenose dolphins<\/a> in our way back.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\">In Pico Island we had a windy day but even though we saw three Sei whales and a pod of male <a href=\"http:\/\/azoreswhales.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/rissos-dolphin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Risso&#8217;s dolphins<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/saC3ADdas5julhosaidaPico-1024x576.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/saC3ADdas5julhosaidaPico-1024x576.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Sei whale<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-3-1024x576.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-3-1024x576.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b>Risso&#8217;s dolphins<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-4.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"690\" data-original-width=\"996\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1-4.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bottlenose dolphin<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2-3.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"651\" data-original-width=\"977\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2-3.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sei whale<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/3-2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"781\" data-original-width=\"901\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/3-2.png\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Sperm whale<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/4-1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img border=\"0\" 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