(Don’t) bite off more than you can chew!
October 28, 2016
21.10.2016 – Sperm whale week
October 30, 2016
What a beautiful day on the ocean, filled with treasures and miracles! In the morning we could already admire a beautiful piece of art. Rain and sun performed magic in the shape of rainbows. What an exquisite play of colors. But nature is the most manifold, exceptional, impressive, amazing artist! It just depends to look in the right way. If this is the case, it is possible to discover many finest arts, in the smallest, in the biggest. That’s real fun! Today we had besides multifaceted composition of colors painted on the sky, so much to gaze at. These marvelous structures on the water surface in the morning; driftwood art; this quit fat Flying fish who is an excellent wave sailor; the Atlantic Spotted dolphins escorting us as a huge group with finest jumps; the Bottlenose dolphins, in the morning travelling in a slow pace and accompanied a single Sperm whale; the Sperm whales, which we met today mostly in a resting state but also lifted their huge heads or the ones which almost showed their flukes in a duet at the end of the day. Today there was so much to be happy about. But is this not always the case? If we only look really carefully, there is so much to marvel.
by Fatima Kutzschbach
Sightings of the day:
Ribeira Brava
10.00: Bottlenose dolphins
14.30: Sperm whales
Stenella
10.00: Bottlenose dolphins
12.30: Bottlenose dolphins, Sperm whales; Atlantic Spotted dolphins
15.30: Sperm whales
