Weekly Update September #2

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 20 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins. We had 1 whale watching tour with Minke Whales. We also had harbour porpoises.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater and European shag.
We had to travel an average of 51Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h30 to cover it. On average we hosted 8 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
This following week we expect near perfect sea conditions except for Friday 20th. Worse than the weather is the lack of bookings, which might cause some reschedules to the meet minimum booking number to do a tour.

Weekly Update July #2

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, and 1 tours with0,. We had 3 whale watching tours with Fin Whales and a Sei Whale. We also had harbour porpoises and Blue Fin Tuna. On average the tours rated 3.4 stars on our scale, where 1 tours had a rating of 5 and 2 tours with 3 different species!
We had to travel an average of 48Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h37 to cover it. On average we hosted 8 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases. Sea state was on average sea state 1.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.8 Kg per Km, a 3% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect good sea conditions on the mornings only, at least until the weekend.

Weekly Update June #3

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 17 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin. We also saw harbour porpoises. All tours rated 3 stars on our scale. No whale watching this week.
On average, we had 8 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
This following week we expect fair sea conditions until the weekend. On the weekend it seems that wind will pick up, we’ll see closer if it will allow tours.

Weekly Update March #1

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 414 days since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin. All tours rated 3 stars on our scale.
On average, we had 7 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
This following week we expect very good sea conditions for Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th. The following days will be rainy and windy with the passage of storm “Monica”. The local group finally arrived so we are planning river tours, on Friday 8th and Sunday 10th.

Weekly Update February #4

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 407 days since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins. And both tours ranked 3 stars on our scale.
On average, we had 9 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
This following week we expect bad weather a high Seas. We’ll be closed with a change of going out on Friday 1st. We’ll see how the weather forecast goes, but the weekend shouldn’t be good enough.

Weekly Update January #4

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 379 days since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin.
On average, we had 8 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases. But we managed to save the breakfast!
Sea state was on average sea state 2 and the average tour ranking was 3 out of 5.
This following week we will be doing some maintenance and upgrades to our boat. Tours will be conducted in different boats, without Francisco as your guide.
We plan to be fully operational from Wednesday 7th, onward!

Weekly Update January #1

This week we didn’t have any tour, we only had 2 days for good Sea conditions which did not had enough bookings to do a tour.

In the next week we expect bad sea condition again, with maybe good weather only on Sunday 14th and Monday 15th.

The oceanographic conditions are suitable for the dolphins to enter the River but it seems they didn’t arrive yet. When they do, sea conditions will not matter that much.

Weekly Update November #4

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours in Lisbon, 316 days since the last failed tour in Lisbon. However we did one tour in the south where we failed to find the resident population.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin. We also had harbour porpoises.

On average, we had 6 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.

This following week we expect after Monday 27th we’ll close until the weekend. Tuesday 28th is almost good enough, but has been getting worse wind forecast as we get closer.

The wind regime of Friday onward should proportionate good conditions for dolphins to settle close to the coast. 

‘St. Martin’s Summer’ is next week!

This week the weather has been very bad, we will close the week with only one single tour on the past Tuesday.

The forecast looks better for the next week and all the way to 3rd week (w46)! Very light winds and gentle seas for Wednesday and the weekend! Thrusday 9th seems to be a hiccup of this trend, with rain and wind.

Weekly Update October #1

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 267 days since the last failed tour. We found at least a second species in all tours except for yesterday. We sighted 3 dolphin species, the common dolphin, striped dolphins and bottlenose dolphins. We we also had harbour porpoises. On average, we had 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases, but with the breakfast saved. Sea state was on average sea state 0.

This following week we expect near perfect mornings until Friday. The forecast for Friday onward isn’t good, except for Saturday, which has near perfect conditions.