February 15, 2025

BWB – Evolution

The evolution of marine mammals is a remarkable story of adaptation and return to the water. Originally land animals, over millions of years they reverted to […]
February 13, 2025

08.02.2025 – Angel’s wing?

The day started a bit to the grey side, looking gloom and with a bit of wind on the west side of the island. On days […]
February 12, 2025

07.02.2025 – Jump around

As we prepared to go out, we almost knew what we were going to find…. another day with Short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis). Today they were […]
February 11, 2025

06.02.2025 – Another “Common” day

As soon as we left the harbour, our spotter Silviano had something in store for us. It didn’t come as surprise when he said “Comuns” (Delphinus […]
February 10, 2025

05.02.2025 – Dolphin hunter

What a beautiful sighting was waiting for us this morning. Short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) were hunting. Sometimes, when our winter dolphins jumped elegantly out of […]
February 9, 2025

04.02.2025 – Blue raft

Today we were able to observe a school of Short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis). Everyone seemed to be doing what they enjoyed. Some were hunting, others […]
February 8, 2025

03.02.2025 – Unfortunately

When we went out at midday, our spotter had reported a sighting of dolphins. But the distance, 5nm, was far. Unfortunately, by the time we got […]
February 7, 2025

01.02.2025 – Long and short

Those who visit us off Madeira’s coast in winter are our so-called winter dolphins. Their species name is Short-beaked common dolphins, scientifically (Delphinus delphis). There are […]
February 5, 2025

31.01.2025 – High-sea variety

Today we saw a group of quite strong Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). We assumed that they were possibly the high-sea variety, which only rarely visit us […]