September 13, 2018

04.09.2018 – Search and find

Out on the ocean every day is different. It is good to know which species have been around the last few days but even this knowledge […]
September 10, 2018

01.09.2018 – Dolphin’s ocean kiss

Mariana, a little Portuguese girl on our morning tour said a very poetic sentence! The dolphins rode in the bow wave of the boat and she […]
September 9, 2018

31.08.2018 – Dolphin co-occurrences

Today we found an interesting situation out on the ocean: there were Short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) closely accompanied by Short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus). Occasionally, […]
September 7, 2018

29.08.2018 – Superlative divers

Which cetacean specie can dive down to the greatest depth? – The award for the deepest and longest dive among all whale and dolphin species goes […]
September 6, 2018

28.08.2018 -Mysterious whales

Today we were lucky enough to observe two of the twenty Beaked whales that were around. These whales are considered very shy and thus difficult to […]
September 3, 2018

25.08.2018 – Exchange business

It was a colourful, eventful Saturday. In the morning there were Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba), Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Risso´s dolphins (Grampus griseus). On this […]
September 1, 2018

23.08.2018 – Magic hour

Whale-watching trips in the evening during the summer months belong to my favorite tours. Apart from the fact that they are a relaxing contrast to the […]
August 31, 2018

22.08.2018 – Kids of the Ocean

Today during the afternoon excursions with our zodiac “Stenella” we encountered pods of Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) in close proximity […]
August 30, 2018

21.08.2018 – The Pygmy chronicles

Our snorkelling tour this morning was unsuccessful regarding the targeted underwater encounters with Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) BUT was surprisingly eventful despite this unfortunate circumstance. […]