{"id":867,"date":"2016-12-22T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/22\/an-early-christmas-surprisefin-whales\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T22:35:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:35:55","slug":"an-early-christmas-surprisefin-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/an-early-christmas-surprisefin-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"An early Christmas surprise…Fin whales!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nToday we had a whale watching tour in the afternoon with a nice early Christmas surprise waiting out to the east of the island for us…fin whales<\/a>! We started with one whale that became very curious towards us and kept approaching our boat, then to our surprise a second one surfaced right on the other side of our boat! The two whales showed themselves very well and they even showed us what they had been feeding on recently – krill<\/a>, as we could see from their bright orange-coloured poo. Towards the end of this amazing encounter the whales started travelling to the south, joining up with at least two other fin whales so that we got to see 4 or perhaps 5 in total. Before the whales we also saw dolphins on this tour, in fact two different species. First we encountered a small group of common dolphins<\/a> that came to check us out and play in the waves from our boat, and just after in the same area we had a couple of Risso’s dolphins<\/a> to give us a total of 3 different cetacean species for this tour.<\/div>\n
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\nCommon dolphin surfacing<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nThis common dolphin had a distinct dorsal fin that we can recognise in the future<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nTwo Risso’s dolphins<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nRisso’s dolphin ID photo (we identify individuals from the natural marks on the dorsal fin)<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nFin whale along the east of S\u00e3o Miguel island<\/i><\/div>\n

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

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\nFin whale surfacing with Santa Maria island in the background<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nTwo of the fin whales together<\/i><\/div>\n

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\nOur last look at the fin whale in the beautiful light at the end of a calm winter day<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we had a whale watching tour in the afternoon with a nice early Christmas surprise waiting out…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[179,10,27,4,35,284],"yoast_head":"\nAn early Christmas surprise...Fin whales! - 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\/an-early-christmas-surprisefin-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An early Christmas surprise...Fin whales! - Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today we had a whale watching tour in the afternoon with a nice early Christmas surprise waiting out…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/an-early-christmas-surprisefin-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Azores Whales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-22T19:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-22T22:35:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_0124-CC3B3pia.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"133\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\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\/an-early-christmas-surprisefin-whales\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_0124-CC3B3pia.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_0124-CC3B3pia.png\",\"width\":133,\"height\":200},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/an-early-christmas-surprisefin-whales\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/whalewatchingazores.com\/blog\/an-early-christmas-surprisefin-whales\/\",\"name\":\"An early Christmas surprise...Fin whales! 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