August 15, 2024
We all need rest. From tiny Madeiran fire crests to gigantic elephants, sleep is essential. As whale watch guides, we can be obsessed with sleep; our […]
August 13, 2024
On our tours, we can observe dolphins in their natural habitat. Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) , like the ones we saw this morning, are among the […]
August 11, 2024
Don’t get me wrong I love Cetaceans but for me the perfect tour is 50/50. 50 percent Cetaceans 50 percent other life (Sea Turtles (Carreta carreta), […]
August 10, 2024
You always experience something new at sea. Today there was an unusual combination of two dolphin species. I saw this for the first time in 19.5 […]
July 29, 2024
Have you already taken the time to look at our teams’ profiles on the Lobosonda-website? Apart from introducing ourselves and explaining a bit about our lives […]
July 27, 2024
The morning started with Blainville’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris), Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) and a Humpback whale. Humpback whales, also known […]
July 22, 2024
This morning we had to drive a long way by our standards before we had a sighting. Just before Campanário, however, we had a school of […]
July 21, 2024
“Mar de aceite”, literally means the oil-ocean, which is an expression that is used in Portugal for very calm sea days, when there is not a […]
July 8, 2024
The waves of the ocean are in constant motion, an endless dance of rise and fall that has characterised the seas for thousands of years. In […]