June 19, 2024

14.06.2024 – Ode to Pilot whales

I want to dedicate today to my favourite cetacean species, Pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus). Short-finned pilot whales, to be more specific, were the stars of two […]
June 18, 2024

13.02.2024 – Lucky Day ?

Today it’s been a day of Odontocetes. Every tour saw some form of toothed whale from tiny Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (Stenella frontalis) to the giant Sperm […]
June 17, 2024

12.06.2024 – Timing is everything

Let’s imagine a “Behind-the-scenes” of a whale-watching trip at Lobosonda. Hopefully for our guest’s, every tour feels smooth and easy going, but there is quite some […]
June 16, 2024

11.06.2024 – What More Can I Say

Before every tour I let the guests know “If I could show you everything in the Ocean I would”. Only after some tours am I able […]
June 15, 2024

10.06.2014 – The common, the largest, the rarest

Today, we have been able to tick a couple of boxes off the Wishlist’s of many our passengers and certainly also our guides and captains. The […]
June 13, 2024

06.06.2024 – The call before the storm

Well, I wouldn’t call it exactly a quiet morning on the ocean. Indeed, we managed to use a small weather window between yesterday’s windy and today’s […]
June 12, 2024

05.06.2024 – Come again?

While wind and waves prevailed our afternoon tour, the morning still felt like one of these easy-going trips, observing particularly curious and energetic species in crystal […]
June 7, 2024

31.05.2024 – Waiting for Whales

Blainville’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) are a species that can completely captivate a whale-watching boat. Madeira is one of the best places to see these strange-looking […]
June 6, 2024

30.05.2024 – The “Who is who” in a dolphin’s world.

Today’s ocean encounters were determined by one resident species, the Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Often occurring close to the coasts, this species is one of the […]