April 19, 2016

Summary of Lobosondas participation at the ECS conference in Funchal

The annual meeting of the European Cetacean Society 2016 took place in Madeira. The ECS is a coalition of european whale- and dolphin specialists. The conference […]
April 15, 2016

Homework done – Fish discovery

Some days ago at the 24 th of March, during a trip with Stenella, we found a dead fish, floating at the water surface. Extraordinary in […]
April 13, 2016

09.04.2016 – Coming from different countries to see wild marine mammals

In the last couple of days we had so many different nationalities on board, that it often feels like being on an cosmopolitan crosspoint (as airports […]
April 12, 2016

08.04.2016 – Visit from the offshore Cousins

End of the week, and large Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops  truncatus) came from the West, whit an average speed of 7 knots. After some time the pod […]
April 10, 2016

07.04.2016 – Patience pays out well

A big praise for our guests on the morning tour for their patience. Also to Carlos, our spotter. Initially we went out far off the coast, […]
April 8, 2016

06.04.2016 – Morning dolphins

Today on our morning tour we were lucky and after some up and down in the waves, we finally found a little school common dolphins. They […]
April 7, 2016

02.04.2016 – Dreamteam

Again today, we saw dolphins. Similar to the past days, we had our current dreamteam, “common dolphins” and “bottlenose dolphins”. Both, in seperate schools, were moving […]
April 6, 2016

01.04.2016 – Chasing fish

The first of April started slowly with the sighting of two bottlenose dolphins, heading west. Because dolphins are rather social animals, we wondered, where the remaining […]
April 5, 2016

31.03.2016 – Old Friends

Again it were the Bottlenose dolphins, which were faithful and came close today on both trips. In the beginning of the sightings, they were shy and […]