Weekly Update July #3

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! This past week was great for dolphin sightings, and we’re excited to share the highlights with you! We are the most successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 45 moons (aye, 3 years and 7 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours. We found at least a second group in all but two of the dolphin tours.

 

This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and European shag.
Tour stats
  • On average the tours rated 3.4 stars on our scale ***
  • 1 tours had a rating of 5, 5 tours had a rating of 3
  • Average distance travelled: 11 leagues (aye, 64kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h42
  • Average souls per tour: 7 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 2 with 1 breakfast lost to the sea.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings fair sea conditions until Thursday the 23rd with Tuesday the 21st and Wednesday the 22nd with the best spotting conditions! From Saturday the 25th to Wednesday the 29th it seems tours will have to be restricted to the river. We’ll have to check the forecast closer to the these dates..
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Weekly Update July #1

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! This past week was great for dolphin sightings, and we’re excited to share the highlights with you! We are the most successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 45 moons (aye, 3 years and 6 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours. We found at least a second group in all but one of the dolphin tours.
This week’s sightings
      • No whale watching this week… but a whale was found in the area, we just run out of time.
      • And the Tagides group has been spotted 4 times in the river.
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and Great Skua.
Tour stats

1 tours had a rating of 4, 1 tours had a rating of 2

  • Average distance travelled: 13 leagues (aye, 75kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h58
  • Average souls per tour: 7 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 2 but with the breakfast saved.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings fair sea conditions in the morning, very poor conditions in the afternoons. Thursday the 9th is looking the worst day, relying heavily on the river group.. And Saturday the 11th to Wednesday the 15th are looking the best days.
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