Weekly Update April #3

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! This past week has been 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 27 months since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all dolphin tours.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin. No whale watching this week…
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and European shag.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 65Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h45 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness cases, R.I.P. breakfast.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
Our CO2 emissions were 11.3 Kg per guest, a 4% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect good sea conditions for Wednesday 23rd but Thursday 24th being the best day by far. Sunday 27th is looking very good for now.

Weekly Update April #1

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! This past week has been 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 27 months since the last failed ocean tour, however we had a cancelled tour due to bad weather, all guests refunded. We found at least a second group in all dolphin tours.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin. No whale watching in the first week…
On average the tours rated 3 stars on our scale.
We had to travel an average of 39Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h40 to cover it. On average we hosted 9 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
Our CO2 emissions were 6.4 Kg per guest, a 22% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect good sea conditions with Thursday 10th having the best weather. Friday 11th and Saturday 12th will likely be too bad to go and with some luck Sunday 13th and Monday 14th will provide fair sea conditions before severe deterioration for some days.

Weekly Update February #4

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! This past week has been great for dolphin sightings, and we’re excited to share the highlights with you! We are the most successfull dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 25 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin. We also found harbour porpoises. No whale watching this week…
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet and Common murre.
All tours rated 4 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 59Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~3h07 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 3.
Our CO2 emissions were 9.4 Kg per guest.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions, with Tuesday 4th afternoon being the best day of the week. On Friday 7th storm ‘Jana’ will disable all tours until next week.

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.