Weekly Update August #4 In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 19 months since the last failed ocean tour.We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphinFor the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua and European shag.We had to travel an average of 58Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h41 to cover it. On average we hosted 11 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases.Sea state was on average sea state 2.Our CO2 emissions were 2 Kg per Km, no improvement from last year, but we’re taking on more guests per tour.This following week we expect good conditions in the mornings with Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th looking a bit windy on the forecast. The weekend and onward is looking very good, it seems that the stable conditions of Autumn will arrive sooner this year! Dolphin Watching Dolphins ECCO Ocean eco tourism EcoTour Golfinhos Lisboa Lisbon Lisbon Dolphins Portugal Rio Tejo Tagus Tagus River Tejo Things to do in Lisbon Visit Lisbon Visit Portugal Whale watching What to do in Lisbon
Weekly Update August #3 In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 19 months since the last failed ocean tour.We sighted 3 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins and 1 tours with orca. We also had Blue Fin Tuna and Sun Fish. On average the tours rated 3.5 stars on our scale, where 4 tours had a rating of 4. No whale watching this week..We had to travel an average of 55Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h44 to cover it. On average we hosted 11 guests per dolphin watching tour and 3 seasickness cases.Sea state was on average sea state 2.Our CO2 emissions were 1.9 Kg per Km, no improvement from last year but we took on average 2 more guests.This following week we expect some windy conditions until the end of the week, not giving much room to go explore into deep ocean, to look for whales. Dolphin Watching Dolphins ECCO Ocean eco tourism EcoTour Golfinhos Lisboa Lisbon Lisbon Dolphins Portugal Rio Tejo Tagus Tagus River Tejo Things to do in Lisbon Visit Lisbon Visit Portugal Whale watching
Weekly Update August #2 In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 19 months since the last failed ocean tour. We sighted 3 dolphin species, the common dolphin, bottlenose dolphins and striped dolphins. On average the tours rated 3.6 stars on our scale, where 4 tours had a rating of 4. No whale watching this week.. We had to travel an average of 62Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h46 to cover it. On average we hosted 11 guests per dolphin watching tour and 3 seasickness cases. Sea state was on average sea state 2. Our CO2 emissions were 1.6 Kg per Km, a 14% improvement from last year. This following week we expect good conditions for at the end of the week. Wednesday 14th looks a bit too windy, we’ll see closer if we need to cancel it… Dolphin Watching Dolphins ECCO Ocean eco tourism EcoTour Golfinhos Lisboa Lisbon Lisbon Dolphins Portugal Rio Tejo Tagus Tagus River Tejo Things to do in Lisbon Visit Lisbon Visit Portugal Whale watching What to do in Lisbon
Weekly Update August #1 In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 18 months since the last failed ocean tour. We sighted 3 dolphin species, the common dolphin, bottlenose dolphins and striped dolphins. We also saw harbour porpoises and Blue Fin Tuna. On average the tours rated 3.4 stars on our scale, where 2 tours had a rating of 4. No whale watching this week.. We had to travel an average of 60Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h56 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases. Sea state was on average sea state 0. Our CO2 emissions were 1.6 Kg per Km, a 14% improvement from last year. This following week we expect near perfect conditios for Friday 9th and the weekend. Monday 5th and Thursday 8th also look nice.. Dolphin Watching Dolphins ECCO Ocean eco tourism EcoTour Golfinhos Lisboa Lisbon Lisbon Dolphins Portugal Rio Tejo Tagus Tagus River Tejo Things to do in Lisbon Visit Lisbon Visit Portugal Whale watching What to do in Lisbon