Weekly Update November #2

No tours this past week, very poor sea conditions due to storm Claudia.
Next week the best spotting conditions is for Tuesday 18th, Saturday 22nd. and Sunday 23rd With a little improvement on the weather forecast and Wednesday 19th, Friday 21st  will become good enough to go out too!

Weekly Update October #5

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 34 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… And the Tagides group has not been spotted for 62 days.. So be aware of those party boats selling river cruises with dolphins, there haven’t been dolphins in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
All tours rated 4 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 76Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~3h06 to cover it. On average we hosted 11 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases but with the breakfast saved.
Sea state was on average sea state 0.
This following week we expect near perfect conditions for tomorrow, Monday 3rd Tours are cancelled until Sunday 9th and should be open until Tuesday 11th when the next storm system arrives.
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Weekly Update October #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 successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 33 months since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all but one of the dolphin tours.
We sighted 3 dolphin species, the common dolphin, bottlenose dolphins and striped dolphins. We also found harbour porpoises. No whale watching this week… And the Tagides group has not been spotted for 55 days.. So be aware of those party boats selling river cruises with dolphins, there haven’t been dolphins in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Great Skua and European shag.
On average the tours rated 3.4 stars on our scale 2 tours had a rating of 4 3 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 82Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h58 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 6 seasickness cases but with 4 breakfasts lost to the depths.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
This following week we expect No tours due to weather conditions, only Thursday 30th seems to have conditions good enough to go out and Sunday 2nd onward.
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Weekly Update October #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 33 months since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all dolphin tours.
We sighted 3 dolphin species, the common dolphin, bottlenose dolphins and striped dolphins. We had 2 whale watching tours with Minke Whales and Fin Whales. We also found flying fish and Sun Fish And the Tagides group has not been spotted for 48 days.. So be aware of those party boats selling river cruises with dolphins, there haven’t been dolphins in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Great Skua, European shag and Puffin.
On average the tours rated 4.3 stars on our scale 1 tour had a rating of 5 with5 different species found and 2 tours had a rating of 4
We had to travel an average of 77Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~3h25 to cover it. On average we hosted 11 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness cases but with all breakfast saved.
Sea state was on average sea state 0.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions overall, with a potencial window for Friday 24th, Sunday 26th and Monday 27th. After Monday, the weather will deteriorate until the next weekend (November), or even further… winter has come!
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Weekly Update October #2

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 33 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. We also found Sharks and Sun Fish. No whale watching this week… And the Tagides group has not been spotted for 41 days.. So be aware of those party boats selling river cruises with dolphins, there haven’t been dolphins in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Great Skua, European shag and Great Shearwater.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 72Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h49 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases, with one breakfast lost.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
This following week we expect near perfect spotting conditions until Sunday 19th Even with good conditions in the afternoons from Wednesday 15th to Friday 17th .
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Weekly Update September #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 32 months since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all but one of the dolphin tours.
We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins. We had 1 whale watching tour with Minke Whales. And the Tagides group has not been spotted for 20 days.. So be aware of those party boats selling river cruises with dolphins, there haven’t been dolphins in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and Great Skua.
On average the tours rated 3.3 stars on our scale 1 tours had a rating of 4 3 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 69Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h47 to cover it. On average we hosted 8 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 0.
This following week we expect very good  spotting conditions Tuesday 23th and onward only with Sunday 28th and Monday 29th closed as ex-hurricane Gabrielle will likely land on mainland Portugal.
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Weekly Update September #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 32 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. We also found harbour porpoises. No whale watching this week… And the Tagides group has been spotted 1 times in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, 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 and return, which took ~2h50 to cover it. On average we hosted 9 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions the whole week. We’ll likely have to close. Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th are the days that with a little improvement, we could go out. But Sunday 14th &onward seems to be the only days good enough for tours..
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Weekly Update August #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 successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 32 months since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all dolphin tours. We sighted 2 dolphin species and the common dolphin, risso’s dolphin. No whale watching this week… And the Tagides group has been spotted 1 time in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet and European shag.
On average the tours rated 3.3 stars on our scale 1 tours had a rating of 4 and 2 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 62Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h54 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases. Sea state was on average sea state 2.
This following week we expect good sea conditions overall, with Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd as well as for the weekend with very good spotting conditions. Thursday 4th seems to be the worst day…
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Weekly Update July #5

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 31 months since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all but one of the dolphin tours.
We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins. We also found harbour porpoises and Sun Fish. No whale watching this week… And the Tagides group has been spotted 6 times in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
On average the tours rated 3.3 stars on our scale 2 tours had a rating of 4 4 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 64Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h43 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.
This following week we expect very good sea conditions in the mornings. However, at this moment only Friday 8th and Sunday 10th onward have places available.
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Weekly Update July #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 successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 30 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… And the Tagides group has been spotted 3 times in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 68Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~1h56 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.
This following week we expect very good sea conditions in the mornings, with Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st with the best sea conditions!