May 14, 2019

02.05.2019 – Typically striped

Today we had a very natural sunscreen on our tour, a thick, gray cloud cover. A small group of Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) behaved typically “striped”, […]
May 10, 2019

30.04.2019 – The Beauty and the Beast

What do you write on a day like this? Where do you start? What gets priority? Not without reason is today’s blog title: Beauty and the […]
May 7, 2019

26.04.2019 – Short & sweet

This morning both our boats enjoyed sightings with two very different but equally beautiful species of dolphin; the shy Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) and the curious […]
April 25, 2019

15.04.2019 – Identifying feature

Swell, swell and swell were waiting for us today. A little preparation for what should come in the next few days. But especially on such ondulating […]
April 24, 2019

13.04.2019 – A percentile

Our Ribeira Brava cruised 3 nautical miles off the Southwest coast of Madeira today to meet a herd of Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) that kept their […]
April 22, 2019

11.04.2019 – Otto and company

Our Stenella sped off on to a placid ocean this afternoon to meet a delightful group of Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) with an equally delightful pleasant […]
April 17, 2019

08.04.2019 – What is this?

What’s this? A girl called Ria that can lure dolphins? Two guys who are passionate about the whole thing? A group of super nice guests? Two […]
March 14, 2019

05.03.2019 – Birds, birds and more birds

I always tell our guests that we try to keep a sharp lookout for birds circling an area when looking for cetaceans, a little trick that […]
March 11, 2019

01.03.2019 – Shiny start

Things went fairly back to normal for us today at Lobosonda as we kicked off the month of March with our freshly-painted Ribeira Brava back on […]