Frendly Sperm Whales

Yes! The some group of sperm whales continues on South Coast of São Miguel Island.
Today we make two trips. We spotted the sperm whales again! They are more close to Ponta Delgada town and our base. With a perfect day we just run a few miles to get the whales: a group of females and calves. Just around, the group was control by a huge male.
The group stays calm, sailing slowly with curiosity and controlling the movements of the boats. After a long time on surfer the group decided to dive: one after each other. In the afternoon trip the same behaviour but this time the male decides to breaching one time, another…five times in a row.
The bottlenose and common dolphins was spotted as usually; they are our friends of every days.

Finally... continued observations!

...With sperm whales and always with our resident friends the dolphins (commons and bottlenose).
Since the 6º of May the weather gets a little bit better and aloud good observations.
Almost every day we saw the same family of sperm whales (the white spotted one)south of Água de Pau/Ponta Garça, and not far from land.
The bottlenose adopt the summer residence in Caloura, and it's always garanted the sigths.
The common dolphins are a little bit far away, but all the time available to have fun with ours boats.
The risso's seams few and lost.
No baleen whales. What a shame!

There's always sun after rain...

...and rain after the sun. Thats the weather we got since April.
Two days without activity (rain, wind and waves) and finally yesterday we had the change to go out.
Nice sun, warm and...waves. We expect a few whales (like always)but they didn't show up. We make the party with the dolphins.
We had common and bottlenose dolphins for both trips.
Today, once again, the trips have been cancelled. Perfect weather to stay at home!

April's Sigths

April Ends in Beauty!

At last we had a very nice weather and, of course, whales.
In the morning trip we went straight to the sperm whales announced by the watcher in Água de Pau. On the way, we stop for a wild to observe a pod of common dolphins. They are feeding with a few cory's flying over. Then the sperm whales. We saw 4, the same familly of the white spottes as in the last weeks.
In the return, more common dolphins and among of them a large group fo stripped dolphins. The flying dolphins. Always a great show under a warm and shining sun.
Perfect!
For the afternoon we expect more or less the same. We had less.
We start near the harbour with a pod of bottlenose dolphins. Thinking of the sperm whales we went far out, but nothing. And we finnished our trip south of Vila Franca with a very large group of playfull common dolphins. Not bad, except the whales.

Déjà Vu...

Today, like yesterday, the dolphins rules.
We expected a little more today. The promise of a good weather brings us the hope to see some whales. But the only spoted today was by the western watcher...to far for the boats.
Both trips got common and bottlenose dolphins. Diferent areas but the same species all day long.

Dolphins are welcome !

Today we just went out during the afternoon. The weather was a litle sad and grey. The wind blows from the east and the sea got some waves. Nothing to worry!
The boats went to the west to get protected. Was a good decison.
The watcher gave us a nice group of common dolphins, south of Relva and two pods of bottlenose dolphins in Ferraria.
Some turbolence passing Santa Clara and that's it!
Let´s hope tomorrow brings big sigths!