06.12.2021 – A good start
December 12, 2021
08.12.2021 – Little fireworks
December 14, 2021
When our guests pay their ticket for the tour, hope and a certain idea of the coming experience will certainly play a major role. Even though most of our guests, fortunately, understand that we don’t go to a zoo but on a safari and that we are dealing with nature, it is understandably inevitable that they will have the wish to encounter marine mammals.
The tour begins and everyone is in high hopes. We go out, we go on and on. We search and search. Nothing can be seen. The first doubts arise. Will we find anything? The trip continues … still nothing. Hope sinks. Some may think that we will be out of luck. STOP! STOP! This thinking is going in the wrong direction! We are on the sea, on the ocean! Everything is possible here. Everything can change very quickly and anytime here! Hope for a sighting can only be given up when we arrive back at the harbor without having achieved anything. So the question arises, what does a whale watcher need to be really well-prepared? Clearly, it takes patience and trust.
Today it took a long, very long time, but in the end we had a wonderful, close, fantastic encounter with our Short-finned Pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus). Fortunately, today’s guests were well-endowed with patience and trust.
By Fatima Kutzschbach
Sighting of the day
Stenella
15:00 Pilot whales
