Weekly Update January #4

In the past week we found dolphins in our dolphin watching tour, 24 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Great Skua, European shag and Common murre.
The tour rated 2 stars on our scale.
We had to travel 105Km to find the dolphins, which took ~3h50 to cover it. We hosted 11 guests and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was sea state 3.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.8 Kg per Km, no improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor weather conditions the whole week, with the fall of wind storm Herminia today and Ivo on Wednesday 29th.Weather will only improve on Friday 31st and Saturday 1st, when the forecast is surprisingly good! Let’s hope that it stays that way!

Weekly Update January #3

No tours so far, mainly due to weather, however yesterday the sea conditions were very good but unfortunately no bookings to go out to the Sea… However the river had once again 2 visits of bottlenose dolphins!
This following week we expect poor weather conditions the whole week, with the fall of wind storm Garoe. With some we’ll have favourable forecast for Friday 24th morning. One of these days will be the only viable window until January 30th as storm Éowyn and others will affect severely the sea conditions.

Weekly Update January #2

Still no tours this year, despite some good weather days. This was due to complete lack of bookings this month… Is the cold frightening everyone? Well winter tours are technically warmer than summer tours.. yes yes it’s a bit colder now, but only some 5ºC lower at Sea. It’s technically warmer because guests finally bring jackets instead of t-shirts!
This following week we expect poor weather conditions for the whole week, except for Wednesday 15th morning which is looking quite good! And Saturday 18th afternoon, which is looking very good!!

Weekly Update January #1

No tours this year so far, result of lack of bookings during the week and in the weekend despite some bookings bad sea conditions from storm Floriane, forced us to cancel every tour.

This week the bad weather will continue as storm Garoe will hit on Tuesday 7th and it’s effects will last until Thrusday 9th.

So this should leave Friday 10th and the weekend free of high waves and the tours will resume.

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Weekly Update December #5

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 23 months since the last failed ocean tour. We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua and Great Cormorant.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 68Km to find the dolphins, which took ~3h06 to cover it. On average we hosted 9 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases. Sea state was on average sea state 3.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.7 Kg per Km, a 5% improvement from last year.
This following week only Thursday 2nd has favourable sea conditions, with the next good weather opening coming somewhere around the 10th.

Weekly Update December #4

No tours done last week. We were quite low on bookings and the sea was a bit too windy.

We sent the very few guests to our colleagues.

This week we expect almost perfect sea conditions for the afternoons and acceptable in the mornings, all the way to Monday 31st.

Weekly Update December #3

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 23 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua and European shag.
All tours rated 4 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 85Km to find the dolphins, which took ~3h13 to cover it. On average we hosted 6 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 4.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.4 Kg per Km, a 14% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor weather conditions the whole week. With a possible opening on Friday’s 20th morning. If weather itself wasn’t enough.. the very low booking rate will lower the chances of having tours this week..

Weekly Update December #2

This is the second week with no tours due to very low number of bookings.

This following week we expect near perfect conditions for Tuesday 10th and Thursday 12th however the lack of bookings poses the biggest threat for this week’s tours. There will be a deterioration of weather Friday onward, disabling any chances of finding dolphins, until next week.

Weekly Update November #4

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 22 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and Great Skua.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 69Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h39 to cover it. On average we hosted 6 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness cases, with the lunch saved.
Sea state was on average sea state 3.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.6 Kg per Km.
This following week we expect very good conditions for Tuesday 26rd and fair sea conditions for Wednesday 27th followed by bad weather until next week..

Weekly Update November #3

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 22 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and European shag.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 83Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h58 to cover it. On average we hosted 6 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.6 Kg per Km.
This following week we expect near perfect conditions until the weekend, where Friday 22th afternoon is the best day. During the weekend and dragging for Monday 25th and maybe even Tuesday 26th the sea conditions will now allow tours.
But the biggest threat to our tour will be the lack of bookings. We have been going out with the minimum guest number and even cancelling few tours because there isn’t enough bookings, even making 10% discounts on the tickets!