13.06.2018 – White perls in the blue sea
How can a day be more beautiful as visiting dolphins in their environment? There is not better way to enjoy a day during Holidays! Our todays guests from the morning and afternoon surely agree, there are not many things which…
12.06.2018 – United
We had two beautiful tours on our traditional boat today with stunning sightings of several different toothed whales and one baleen whale species. Our baleen whale sighting involved a Tropical whale (Balaenoptera edeni) and her calf, summer transients that were…
06.06.2018 – Festival of the sea turtles
Everybody was counting! What a nice, collective action! Thank you dear guests for your attention and engagement! Today we followed the tracks of Loggerhead turtles. It was a real “Caretta caretta highway”. In total we counted 30 turtles and Filipe,…
04.06.2018 – The dark dolphins
Our trip this morning included a lovely sighting involving a large Tropical whale (Balaenoptera edeni) and her calf, as well as a school of Short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis). The dolphins swam very close to our vessel for some time,…
02.06.2018 – Summer spectacle
Our French group got incredibly lucky this afternoon on our traditional boat. The Atlantic surprised us with no less than 4 different cetacean species sightings, three of which occurred practically at the same time. The trip began with a rather…
01.06.2018 – Oceanic nursery
The 1st of June marks the beginning of our summer season here at Lobosonda and also happens to be International children’s day. It seems both occasions were celebrated on the Atlantic today. Oceanic islands like Madeira act as ideal temporary…
29.05.2018 – Vikings are seeing blue
In the old days they traveled on the world oceans. They were wild and fearless and liked to fight to conquer new land: THE VIKINGS!! Even in our century it is quite possible to come across them. And believe me…
26.05.2018 – Dolphins DELUXE
Huge – grey – powerful – impressive – beautiful – intense – heart touching – just to adore – feelings of happiness … what could this mean? This describes only partly our Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) today! All will agree…
25.05.2018 – Cetacean congregation
Toothed whales (Odontoceti) are social animals and everyone who has had the pleasure of enjoying an encounter with a member of this diverse family of marine mammals knows this. Every odontocete species has its own typical group size which is…
19.05.2018 – Lost
As soon as we left the harbor this morning we met a school of Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). First they showed signs of interest but then moved quickly towards the coast. We followed the animals but when we reached the…