Weekly Update June #1

No tours this past week. The few fair days, had too few bookings.

Looking ahead
From Monday the 8th to Wednesday the 10th, the sea turns poor, shrinking our search area and leaving us to lean upon the river group… Who have shown themselves quite often, these past days. From Thursday the 11th to Sunday the 14th the mornings promise good & worthy seas once more! Next week seems wind will cut the search area shorter, but tours shall continue.

 

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Full search range 0-2

Limited search range 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m

Weekly Update May #4

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 44 moons (aye, 3 years and 5 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours. We found at least a second group in all dolphin tours.
This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
Tour stats
      • All tours rated 3 stars on our scale ***
      • Average distance travelled: 11 leagues (aye, 62kms) round trip.
      • Average time at Sea: 2h46
      • Average souls per tour: 10 guests
      • Seasickness cases: 1
      • Average Sea state:  sea state 2. But on the last tour we had to endure a short period of sea state 5!! Very wet.
Looking ahead
Next week raging winds and rough waves will cast us out from the Sea..  Saturday the 6th stands as the only good day as the next one is Thursday the 12th. On the remaining days, we shall judge whether river-only voyages are possible—should the river group be sighted.
Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Full search range 0-2

Limited search range 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m

Weekly Update May #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 43 moons (aye, 3 years and 5 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours.
This week’s sightings

. We also found and Sun Fish

For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
Tour stats

1 tours had a rating of 3 1 disastrous tour with rating of 2.. the first of the year.

  • Average distance travelled: 15 leagues (aye, 86kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 3h02
  • 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 good seas in the mornings, until Friday the 29th when persistent strong wind will narrow our search area. Tuesday the 26th stands as the trickiest day, we may need to sail in the afternoon instead. The greatest threat this week lies not in the sea, but in underbooking

 

Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Full search range 0-2

Limited search range 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m

Weekly Update May #2

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 43 moons (aye, 3 years and 5 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours.
This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
Tour stats

1 tours had a rating of 3.5 1 tours had a rating of 3

  • Average distance travelled: 8 leagues (aye, 46kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h14
  • Average souls per tour: 10 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 2 but with the breakfasts saved.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings very good sea conditions until the weekend, only with Wednesday 20th showing a bit too much waves.
Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Full search range 0-2

Limited search range 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m

Weekly Update May #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 43 moons (aye, 3 years and 4 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours.
This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: and Northern Gannet.
Tour stats
  • All tours rated 3 stars on our scale ***
  • Average distance travelled: 11 leagues (aye, 61kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h27
  • Average souls per tour: 8 guests
  • Seasickness cases: zero.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 3.
Looking ahead
Next week brings bad sea conditions until Wednesday the 13th which has by far the best forecast of the week. The following days will restrict our search range significantly with little improvement during the weekend.
Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Full search range 0-2

Limited search range 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m

Weekly Update April #4

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 43 moons (aye, 3 years and 4 months) with only two failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all but two of the dolphin tours.
This week’s sightings
. We also found harbour porpoise
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and Puffin.
Tour stats
2 tours had a rating of 4 2 tours had a rating of 3
  • Average distance travelled: 15 leagues (aye, 83kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 3h16
  • Average souls per tour: 10 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 3 breakfasts lost to the Seas.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings Poor sea conditions, we might be restricted to the river and focusing our efforts in finding the river group. Thursday the 7th presents the best sea conditions of the week. Friday the 8th and onward stormy seas will prevent all attempts of going out.
Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Good Sea conditions wind 0-2

Limited tours conditions 3-4

Waves must be under 2.5m

Weekly Update April #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 42 moons (aye, 3 years and 3 months) with only one failed ocean tour.
This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and European shag.
Tour stats
    • On average the tours rated 3 stars on our scale ***
    • But after 3 years, 3 months and 22 days (1177 days!) without failing an ocean tour, it finally happened in the first tour of this week…

2 tours had a rating of 3 1 tours had a rating of 0

  • Average distance travelled: 13 leagues (aye, 76kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 3h00
  • Average souls per tour: 10 guests
  • Breakfasts lost: 1
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.

 

Looking ahead
Next week brings poor sea conditions until Thursday the 9th and Friday the 10th which stands as the best sea conditions of the week. Wednesday the 8th the swell may not let us pass to the ocean, we must see if the forecast improves. Then the weekend seems to be ruined too…
Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Weekly Update March #4

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 39 moons (aye, months) since the last failed ocean tour.
This week’s sightings

For the bird watchers

We’ve seen: Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
Tour stats
  • All tours rated 3 stars on our scale ***
  • Average distance travelled: 13 leagues (aye, 76kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h59
  • Average souls per tour: 12 guests
  • Lost breakfasts: 1
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 3.
Looking ahead
Next week brings overall fair sea conditions, specially for Friday the 3rd and the weekend. Monday the 6th will probably lose to the upcoming wind for the 2nd week. Wednesday the 1st will be the trickiest day with a short window of 2h past noon.

Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Weekly Update March #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 38 moons (aye, months) since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all dolphin tours.
This week’s sightings

. We also found and Sun Fish

For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and Great Skua.
Tour stats
  • All tours rated 3 stars on our scale ***
  • Average distance travelled: 14 leagues (aye, 81kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 3h09
  • Average souls per tour: 6guests
  • Seasickness cases: 1
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 0.
Looking ahead
Next week brings a narrow window for Sunday the 22nd.
Very fine conditions from Monday the 23rd until Wednesday the 25th.
Thursday the 26th and Friday the 27th turn poor sea conditions and we’ll likely be restricted to the river, focusing on the Tagides.. at a far lower price, of course.
Saturday the 28th good sea conditions returns again, before the rough Seas grounds us on Sunday until Tuesday the 31st.

Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!:

Weekly Update March #2

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 38 moons (aye, months) since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all dolphin tours.
This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and European shag.
Tour stats
  • All tours rated 4 stars on our scale ****
  • Average distance travelled: 13 leagues (aye, 73kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 3h15
  • Average souls per tour: 9guests
  • Seasickness cases: 0
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 1.
Looking ahead
This following week brings a restless sea, the afternoon on Monday the 16th is the only window to adventure beyond the horizon! Monday the 23rd and maybe Sunday the 22nd will be good next days to go seek the wonders of the sea.
Check the latest videos on our social media, link on the bottom of the page!: