|20230512| Flat sea day with Bottlenose dolphins and Sperm whales!!
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On this fantastic morning, we saw a group of 6 sperm whales (๐๐ฉ๐บ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ถ๐ด), including 1 calf and juvenile feeding), common dolphins (๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด), bottlenose dolphins (๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ด) and a group of striped dolphins (๐๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ข). Associated with the common dolphin group we observed some Cory's shearwaters (๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด) and some common tern (๐๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ช๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ). On our way back, some Portuguese Man O'War (๐๐ฉ๐บ๐ด๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ข ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ๐ด๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด) were observed 1 mile from the Morro de Castelo Branco.
In the afternoon we were able to observe sperm whales (๐๐ฉ๐บ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ถ๐ด) that were hiding, and it took us 1h:30 min and 20km offshore, but finally, we found them and they were everywhere! A group of over 17 whales also diving at a time. A pod of about 50 bottlenose dolphins (๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ด) socializing made the evening end in perfection. More images were collected for the catalogs and to study their social ecology!
What a great day!
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