{"id":47924,"date":"2020-01-02T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?p=47924"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T19:06:40","slug":"3-species-of-dolphins-in-first-trips-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/3-species-of-dolphins-in-first-trips-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"3 species of dolphins in first trips of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy new year! Today we had our first trip of 2020 and it was filled with dolphins We had a beautiful sunny day with a bit of swell after the bad weather of last week. But that did not stop us from having an awesome trip! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the morning we had a pod of common dolphins<\/a>. They were in a large group but split up after a while and started foraging. This attracted a lot of seagulls! Then we went further east to find some bottlenose dolphins. They were diving a lot and it was quite difficult to see them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon we started off with the common dolphins again, and soon after that, we got a call from the other boat that they found Atlantics spotted dolphins<\/a>! Could it be? This species is a migratory species and they generally leave the Azores around November, when the water temperature decreases. However, we had a decent sized pod today and they even had calves and lots of juveniles! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that was the surprise of the day. Lastly, we managed to find bottlenose dolphins<\/a> to end the day. On the way back we even saw a magical rainbow, so our 2020 is starting off great! <\/p>\n\n\n\n