A fun family of sperm whales

Another beautiful day at sea. Our morning started with an amazing huge group of striped dolphins. Next we moved on to a group of common dolphins and we ended up with a beautiful family of sperm whales. In the afternoon, the common dolphins started our trip and we ended with the sperm whale family again. They were really nice to encounter as they were super curious towards our boats and gave us a great show, especially one with its tail!

Photos from today:

The incredible striped dolphins

The striped dolphin

A young playful striped dolphin

Sperm whale watching from aboard our catamaran

Two sperm whale heads, one with its mouth open

Heads and tails

Watching a sperm whale lobtailing

Sperm whale lobtailing

Dolphin watching from our catamaran 

Our boats in the afternoon

Loggerhead turtle

The beautiful coastline of São Miguel island

Bad visibilty but 4 whale species

When we left this morning we had a visibility of only 50 to 100 m, and our lookout could only guide us to a few common dolphins. But still we managed to see four different whale species, in the morning, luckily we found two fin whales further out and Blainville's beaked whales. In the afternoon we encountered more or less 15 sperm whales and 10 Sowerby's beaked whales. A day of luck and fun!

Photos from today:

Fin whale (morning)

Fin whale (morning)

Sowerby's beaked whales (afternoon)

Sowerby's beaked whales

Sowerby's beaked whales

Sperm whales, see the baby spyhopping (afternoon)

Sperm whales

Adult sperm whale spyhopping

Sperm whale watching aboard our catamaran

Sperm whale watching aboard our catamaran

Sperm whale watching aboard our catamaran

Sperm whales, fin whales and dolphins

Today we encountered several sperm whales, both in the morning and in the afternoon, the same family. We went from whale to whale as they were a bit shy towards the boats and went on shallow dives. But we saw many family members and we lost count of how many we saw today. In the afternoon the sperm whales revealed their position by jumping a lot. We also saw both common dolphins and a large group of bottlenose dolphins. One of our boats also managed to see a fin whale so spring is still here. 

Photos from today:

Bottlenose dolphin

Bottlenose dolphin calf surfacing next to its mother

Watching the bottlenose dolphins in the morning

Fin whale

Two of our boats on on the water this morning

Hello Mr Liable!!

Today we had a nice summer day out there in the sea, we saw three of our resident species,  big groups of  very social and curious common and bottlenosedolphins and both in the morning and afternoon, our big male sperm whale, Mr Liable. It showed us its big body and its amazing tale, which we recognize from far away.

It was nice to see it again :)

Cory's shear waters and loggerhead turtles were also around us

Some Photos of our  trips:

 

 Mr Liable tail

We can see very clearly the marks it has

Dorsal view of Mr Liable 

 

 Bottlenose were surrounded by babys!

Playfull and social  

 

Loggerhead turtle resting under the sun 

 Cory's  shearwaters were present also

Rain not helping

This Sunday was a great day on the sea. In the morning we saw two of our three resident dolphin species: common dolphins and bottlenose dolphins. In the afternoon we had to travel further and we had a sursprise from two fin whales, pilot whales and all three resident dolphins: common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins and Risso's dolphins. Unfortunally, not all our boats got to see all the species, the whales were a bit shy in the end and our lookouts were covered with rain so it made it very difficult for them to help us.

Photos from today: 

Swimmers with bottlenose dolphins

Bottlenose dolphins

Bottlenose dolphins

Common dolphin

Common dolphins

Risso's dolphins

Risso's dolphin

Shy whales and our first spotted dolphins of the year

Today we started out encountering our more sighted resident species, common dolphins and bottlenose dolphins. Just a bit further out there were whales to see, so after enjoying some time with the dolphins we set out for the whales. We spotted the blow of a baleen whale but continued a bit further where we had a group of sperm whales to see. The whales were shy today, both the baleen whale (which never showed up again) and also the sperm whales as they kept going on shallow dives and were difficult to watch. With a bit of patience, from aboard our catamaran we got to see two tails from the sperm whales. On our way back during the morning tour our catamaran came across a group of Atlantic spotted dolphins, or rather they found us as they came leaping towards our boat, surprising us all. It was our first encounter with this species this year, they have finally decided to join us for the summer! 

In the afternoon the sperm whales had left the area, but we still had plenty of bottlenose dolphins around and also a small group of common dolphins. Our lookout also spotted a baleen whale but despite our patience and much waiting we never saw the whale. Luckily the dolphins were very curious and playful to make up for the whale not appearing for us. We also spotted a small loggerhead turtle on our way back to shore, a nice end to the day.

Photos from today:

One of the shy sperm whales from the morning tour

Finally a tail, after a lot of patience

Sperm whale

Bottlenose dolphin

Atlantic spotted dolphins next to our boat

Atlantic spotted dolphin

Enjoying the ride on our catamaran

Common dolphin

One of the bottlenose dolphins from the two different groups encountered in the afternoon

Swimming with bottlenose dolphins