Weekly Update July #5

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 46 moons (aye, 3 years and 7 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours. We found at least a second group in all but two of the dolphin tours.
This week’s sightings
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 4 6 tours had a rating of 3

  • Average distance travelled: 9 leagues (aye, 55kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h43
  • Average souls per tour: 8 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 2 but with the breakfast saved.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.

 

Looking ahead
Next week brings poor sea conditions until the weekend, with Sunday the 9th having the best sea conditions of the week. The rest of the days will be totally dependant on the presence of the river group.
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Weekly Update July #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 46 moons (aye, 3 years and 7 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours. We found at least a second group in 66% of the dolphin tours.

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

2 tours had a rating of 4, 5 tours had a rating of 3

  • Average distance travelled: 9 leagues (aye, 53kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h42
  • Average souls per tour: 8 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 0.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 1.

 

Looking ahead
Next week brings fair morning seas through Saturday the 1st. The weekend may bring winds stronger than we would wish, yet the river-folk should help us keep the tours going.
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Weekly Update July #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 45 moons (aye, 3 years and 7 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours. We found at least a second group in all but two of the dolphin tours.

 

This week’s sightings
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and European shag.
Tour stats
  • On average the tours rated 3.4 stars on our scale ***
  • 1 tours had a rating of 5, 5 tours had a rating of 3
  • Average distance travelled: 11 leagues (aye, 64kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h42
  • Average souls per tour: 7 guests
  • Seasickness cases: 2 with 1 breakfast lost to the sea.
  • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings fair sea conditions until Thursday the 23rd with Tuesday the 21st and Wednesday the 22nd with the best spotting conditions! From Saturday the 25th to Wednesday the 29th it seems tours will have to be restricted to the river. We’ll have to check the forecast closer to the these dates..
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Weekly Update July #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 45 moons (aye, 3 years and 6 months) with only 2 failed ocean tours. We found at least a second group in all but one of the dolphin tours.
This week’s sightings
      • No whale watching this week… but a whale was found in the area, we just run out of time.
      • And the Tagides group has been spotted 4 times in the river.
For the bird watchers
We’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and Great Skua.
Tour stats

1 tours had a rating of 4, 1 tours had a rating of 2

  • Average distance travelled: 13 leagues (aye, 75kms) round trip.
  • Average time at Sea: 2h58
  • 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 fair sea conditions in the morning, very poor conditions in the afternoons. Thursday the 9th is looking the worst day, relying heavily on the river group.. And Saturday the 11th to Wednesday the 15th are looking the best days.
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Weekly Update June #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 44 moons (aye, 3 years and 6 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, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
Tour stats
      • All tours rated 3 stars on our scale ***
      • Average distance travelled: 10 leagues (aye, 59kms) round trip.
      • Average time at Sea: 2h53
      • Average souls per tour: 6 guests
      • Seasickness cases: 1
      • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings very good sea conditions for Tuesday the 23rd and Wednesday the 24th , Thursday the 25th isn’t looking good and quite fair seas for Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th. Sunday might have a window in the morning, but conditions will deteriorate until the end of the week…
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Weekly Update June #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 44 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, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
Tour stats
      • All tours rated 3 stars on our scale ***
      • Average distance travelled: 7 leagues (aye, 42kms) round trip.
      • Average time at Sea: 2h17
      • Average souls per tour: 5 guests
      • Seasickness cases: 0
      • Average Sea state:  sea state 2.
Looking ahead
Next week brings fine sea conditions the whole week, with Wednesday the 17th and Thursday the 18th looking to be the best of the week, followed by Friday the 19th.
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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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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.
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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

 

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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.
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