Weekly Update April #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 27 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…
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and European shag.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 65Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h45 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness cases, R.I.P. breakfast.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
Our CO2 emissions were 11.3 Kg per guest, a 4% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect good sea conditions for Wednesday 23rd but Thursday 24th being the best day by far. Sunday 27th is looking very good for now.

Weekly Update April #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 27 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. We also found Blue Fin Tuna
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
On average the tours rated 3.6 stars on our scale 3 tours had a rating of 4 and 2 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 51Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h28 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.
Our CO2 emissions were 8.5 Kg per guest, a 8% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions, with Thursday 17th being the only day with good sea conditions and we’re planning doing a morning and afternoon tour. The next weather opening will be on Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st.

Weekly Update April #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 27 months since the last failed ocean tour, however we had a cancelled tour due to bad weather, all guests refunded. We found at least a second group in all dolphin tours.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin. No whale watching in the first week…
On average the tours rated 3 stars on our scale.
We had to travel an average of 39Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h40 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.
Our CO2 emissions were 6.4 Kg per guest, a 22% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect good sea conditions with Thursday 10th having the best weather. Friday 11th and Saturday 12th will likely be too bad to go and with some luck Sunday 13th and Monday 14th will provide fair sea conditions before severe deterioration for some days.

Weekly Update March #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 26 months since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all dolphin tours.
We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins. We also found harbour porpoises. No whale watching this week…
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Northern Gannet and Great Skua.
On average the tours rated 2.9 stars on our scale.
We had to travel an average of 75Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~3h10 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 6 Kg per guest, a 16% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions as storm Nuria will land on mainland Portugal. Monday 31st is the only day with good sea conditions. The first break from the bad weather seems to be Saturday 5th, we’ll have to see how the forecast evolves. For Monday 7th, it is expected near perfect sea conditions!

Weekly Update March #3

No tours for a while due to the last big storms; Konrad, Laurence and Martinho.
However this next week the weather will greatly improve starting on Tuesday 25th with all morning with near perfect conditions, (little to no wind and 1m high waves) until Saturday 29th. The biggest threat to the tours will be the low booking rate!

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…