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…
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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.

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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.

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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.
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Weekly Update March #1

No voyages this week—the sea has been harsh. Our bold allies dared to push their luck and came back with no dolphins seen… We chose the safer path and held to land, for the Tagides have not been seen again in the river.

Yet tomorrow we will try: Sunday the 8th stands as the best window of this ending week, but no reservations so far…

Next week the poor conditions keeps on… we shall likely attempt only on Wednesday the 11th, Thursday the 12th and maybe even Friday the 13th.

Weekly Update February #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 38 moons (aye, months) since the last failed ocean tour.
This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Great Skua and European shag.
Tour stats
  • All tours rated 4 stars on our scale ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  • Average distance travelled: 9 leagues (aye, 51kms) round trip
  • Average time at Sea: 2h48
  • Average souls per tour: 6 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 0
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 1.
Looking ahead
This following week turn against us again, specially on Friday the 6th looks very nasty. Until Monday 9th. Seas stay poor until Monday the 9th, but we might run river trips, looking for the Tagides, te river group.
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Weekly Update February #3

Ahoy, intrepid explorers! We finally got our first tour of 2026!! Not an easy week dolphins had been quite far away. We are the most successful dolphin watching boat in Lisbon, with 37 months since the last failed ocean tour, and to keep that record we had to cancel 2 tours in the past weekend as no dolphins have been spotted in the bay.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the and bottlenose dolphins.. No whale watching this week… And the Tagides group has not been spotted for 54 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: Northern Gannet, Sooty Shearwater, European shag and Puffins.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 108Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~3h27 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
This following week the Sea worsen again…, with only Sunday the 1st standing as a proper day to go out, then three days of poor weather follow….

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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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