November 19, 2025

11.11.2025 – Salt crust

Surprise, we have November weather here too! We are facing a storm, but this morning we went out onto the choppy sea. Our traditional fishing boat […]
November 17, 2025

10.11.2025 – Poseidon’s messenger

One of the species we encountered today was the so called Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba). This is a small dolphin which can be encountered around Madeira […]
November 15, 2025

07.11.2025 – Life behind glass

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), as we observed them today, are considered intelligent and social marine mammals. In the wild, they live in complex social groups and […]
November 14, 2025

06.11.2025 – Sunset

The sun was setting when we were coming back from our last Stenella trip. Today we could admire 3 different species of cetaceans. In the morning […]
November 12, 2025

04.11.2025 – Flight delay?

On our wonderful morning tour we had the big ones, Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and the small ones, Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis), approaching us curiously. […]
October 31, 2025

25.10.2025 – Bad weather front

Winter is closing in and with that the wet season here on Madeira starts. This morning the weather was good enough to leave for the ocean […]
October 29, 2025

23.10.2025 – Tursiops

The Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops) is by far the marine mammal we know the most about. The adaptive nature of these charismatic dolphins has granted them a […]
October 28, 2025

22.10.2025 – Breakfast

Today on the first trip we encountered a piece of squid drifting at the surface of the ocean and it was a first glimpse of what […]
October 26, 2025

20.10.2025 – Doing their thing

This morning both our boats managed sightings of Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) as well as of Short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus), two of Madeira’s most important […]