{"id":653,"date":"2017-10-13T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/13\/last-day-before-ofelia\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:37:02","slug":"last-day-before-ofelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/last-day-before-ofelia\/","title":{"rendered":"Last day before ‘Ophelia’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nToday was our last day out on the ocean before we expect tropical storm “Ofelia” to arrive tonight. We started the morning with a nice group of common dolphins<\/a> that were keenly bowriding in front of our boats. Next we searched further out to try to find whales, but even though we didn’t find them we did encounter a large group of Atlantic spotted dolphins<\/a>. They were very active with lots of high jumps and also a lot of seabirds around, indicating they were most likely feeding.<\/div>\n
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\nIn the afternoon we returned to the sea, starting again with our friendly common dolphins. Again they did not disappoint us and we got to see them very well, with a lot of social behaviours. Next we went a bit further to a large group of bottlenose dolphins<\/a> that were going on dives, probably in search of food. We had a nice look at these dolphins before going inshore to enjoy the views of the coastline, including Vila Franca Islet.<\/div>\n
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<\/b><\/span><\/span>Some photos of the morning tour:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of our curious common dolphins:<\/p>\n

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\nSwimming very close to the rubber boat<\/i><\/div>\n
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 -Atlantic spotted dolphins are still around:<\/p>\n

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Photos from the afternoon:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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 Bottlenose dolphins<\/i>
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\nThe last day of good weather for a while, enjoying the views of Vila Franca islet<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today was our last day out on the ocean before we expect tropical storm “Ofelia” to arrive tonight.…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9,3,10,4,123],"yoast_head":"\nLast day before 'Ophelia' - Azores Whales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/last-day-before-ofelia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Last day before 'Ophelia' - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today was our last day out on the ocean before we expect tropical storm “Ofelia” to arrive tonight.…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/last-day-before-ofelia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-10-13T17:18:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:37:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6099.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1102\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Azores Whales\",\"description\":\"Azores Whale Watching Blog\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/last-day-before-ofelia\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6099.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DSC_6099.jpg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":1102},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/last-day-before-ofelia\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/last-day-before-ofelia\/\",\"name\":\"Last day before 'Ophelia' - 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