15.07.2022 – A spotted day
July 25, 2022
17.07.2022 – Dolphins for our little guests … and the big ones too
July 27, 2022
Often people ask us what day or time of the day is good for whale watching or if we’ve already seen something in the morning and so the chances to see something in the afternoon will be higher.. This question is often not so easy to answer, but today pretty much sums up the answer to it.
In the morning unfortunately we’ve seen nothing but the big blue ocean and a few seabirds.
The afternoon tour was quite the opposite and at some point we didn’t even know where to look, that how many animals we’ve seen. We drove all the way to the west, in front of the light house in Ponta do Pargo.
In one spot we’ve first seen Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) a huge pod of around a hundred Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis)and in between the Dolphins a fast travelling Bryde’s Whale (Balaenoptera edeni) ! The Dolphins were feeding so we had the chance to see the amazing spectacle of Dolphins, Cory Shearwaters and a Bryde’s Whale feeding.
This was truly breathtaking! To top it up, we also met two Loggerhead Turtles (Caretta caretta) logging and resting at the water surface.
The evening wasn’t any less exciting and we found probably the same group of Spotties in the far west and another (or maybe the same) Loggerhead Turtle.
by Paulina Kalita
Sightings of the day
Ribeira Brava
10:00 – No Sightings
15:00 Bottlenose dolphins
Stenella
10:00 – No Sightings
14:00 Atlantic spotted dolphins, Bottlenose dolphins, Bryde’s Whale, Loggerhead Turtle
17:00 Atlantic spotted dolphins, Loggerhead turtle
