April 7, 2016

02.04.2016 – Dreamteam

Again today, we saw dolphins. Similar to the past days, we had our current dreamteam, “common dolphins” and “bottlenose dolphins”. Both, in seperate schools, were moving […]
March 19, 2016

15.03.2016 – Weather from the south

Lobosonda for now at 2 boarders: Astrid on the conference is getting input for us so that we can pass it on to our clients and Sr. […]
January 21, 2016

Common and not so common behavior of Pilot whales

Since 12 years we are observing the Atlantic Ocean, mostly in the south-west of Madeira island. This is only a very small part of these much […]
December 25, 2015

Lobosonda wishes you a Merry Christmas!

The entire Lobosonda team wants to wish you a Merry Christmas! We would like to thank our wonderful guests, who went out with us on the […]
December 14, 2015

11.12.2015 – The calm before the storm

So calm and flat the ocean layed upon us in the sunshine, but our Senior captain said: “Such a flat ocean in Decembertime means strong wind […]
December 10, 2015

Visiting the Natural History Museum in Funchal!

On the 22.10.2015 the ocean was rough and agitated, with strong winds bringing lots of rain to Madeira. Since our boats had to stay in the […]
December 9, 2015

06.12.2015 – Saint Nicholas

Today we had no cetaceans on our trip, but a special sighting of Saint Nicholas in our shop. by Joana Gomes Todays sightings: Ribeira Brava: 10.00: […]
November 29, 2015

Stone on stone

Today is the first Advent! Our welfare crib gets its first “bricks“. Today’s crib blog will be about the constitution and construction of schools. For most […]
November 2, 2015

28.10.2015 – Rare guests on their journey through

Good start in the day this morning. The Atlantic moved us in his long and big waves and offered us quickly his treasures. Very soon we […]