Weekly Update March #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 26 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…
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, European shag and common murre.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 73Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~3h08 to cover it. On average we hosted 5 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
Our CO2 emissions were 5.4 Kg per guest, a 41% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions, with Wednesday 12th being the only day with low seas but the wind still has to improve. It is likely that all tours that could happen this week will have to be restricted to the river. Conditions will finally improve on the weekend with Sunday 16th showing good sea conditions!

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 February #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 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 had harbour porpoises. No whale watching this week.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, European shag and Common murre.
On average the tours rated 3 stars on our scale 1 tours had a rating of 4 1 tours had a rating of 2
We had to travel an average of 84Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~3h02 to cover it. On average we hosted 8 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
Our CO2 emissions were 1.7 Kg per Km, a 9% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions, with Wednesday 26th and Saturday 1st being the only viable days.

Weekly Update February #1

In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 25 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, Great Skua, European shag and Common murre.
On average the tours rated 3 stars on our scale 1 tour had a rating of 3 1 tour had a rating of 2.5
We had to travel an average of 61Km to find the dolphins, which took ~2h42 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 1.7 Kg per Km, a 9% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions, with Tuesday 11thso bad that will not be any tours. On Thursday 13th is the only day with good Sea conditions, while the rest of the week will be only possible to do the river tours, as dolphins have been spotted in the Tagus River.

Weekly Update January #5

No tours this past week. We almost have a tour on Saturday 1st but with few bookings and not great weather we cancelled.

This following week we expect very good sea conditions, except for Friday 7th. This will probably be the best week of the month since on Saturday 1st the weather pattern seems to change dramatically for the rest of the month. Bringing storms with wind and big waves…

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.