{"id":812,"date":"2017-04-15T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/a-blue-whale-in-sao-migue\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:36:12","slug":"a-blue-whale-in-sao-migue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/a-blue-whale-in-sao-migue\/","title":{"rendered":"A blue whale in S\u00e3o Miguel…also fin whales, pilot whales and a humpback whale!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday we had our first blue whale visiting us in S\u00e3o Miguel! This beautiful and very big blue whale <\/a>visited us in the afternoon, to the delight to everyone aboard our catamaran as well as the zodiac boats. We hope there will be many more blue whales to come this baleen whale season. In the morning we also had other baleen whales to see – in this case fin whales<\/a>, which are just a bit smaller than blue whales. From our catamaran we got to see one rolling over on its side, lifting its pectoral fin out of the water, a very rare behaviour that we were lucky to see. From our other boats a group of pilot whales<\/a> was also seen, an as for dolphins, today we encountered common dolphins<\/a> in the morning and bottlenose dolphins<\/a> in the afternoon. We had a last surprise at the end of the day with the encounter of a humpback whale<\/a>. A very impressive species list indeed! <\/div>\n
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\nFin whale surfacing to breathe<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nFin whale dorsal<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nFin whale rolling on its side, lifting up its pectoral fin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBlue whale blow!<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBlue whale!<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBlue whale curving its back to dive<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nPilot whale surfacing<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nJuvenile bottlenose dolphin<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nOne of our boats with the bottlenose dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins – two mother and juveniles pairs surfacing together<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nBottlenose dolphins<\/i>
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\nAnd the humpback whale seen on the third tour…<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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