Weekly Update July #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 30 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, Blue Fin Tuna. 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, Balearic Shearwater and Sooty Shearwater.
On average the tours rated 3.6 stars on our scale 2 tours had a rating of 4 1 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 72Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h48 to cover it. On average we hosted 12 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 0.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions until the weekend, with Thursday 24th and Friday 25th with possibility of improvement. We’ll wait for closer forecast, but the river group has been around, making easier to spot dolphins during poor weather conditions.

Weekly Update July #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 30 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 Pilot Whale. We also found Sword fish, Blue Fin Tuna. No whale watching this week… (pilot whales are dolphins) And the river group has been spotted 2 times in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater and Great Skua.
On average the tours rated 3.2 stars on our scale 1 tours had a rating of 4 and all the others tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 69Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h56 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases, with lost breakfasts…
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
This following week we expect very good sea conditions in the mornings of Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th with poor conditions in all the other days… Sunday 20th is the only day that has conditions to go out.

Weekly Update July #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 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. We also found Blue Fin Tuna. No whale watching this week… And the river group has been spotted 2 times in the river.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Storm petrel, Northern Gannet, Balearic Shearwater and European shag.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 64Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h48 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
This following week we expect good sea conditions until the weekend, when some wind is forecasted. Thursday 10th and Sunday 13th are the best days!

Weekly Update June #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 29 months since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all but two of the dolphin tours.
We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and orca again! No whale watching this week… And the river group has not been spotted for 63 days.. So be aware of those 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 Sooty Shearwater.
On average the tours rated 3.7 stars on our scale 1 tours had a rating of 5 and 2 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 75Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h37 to cover it, except for the tour with orcas which lasted 4h40! On average we hosted 7 guests per dolphin watching tour and 3 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 0.
Our CO2 emissions were 9.9 Kg per guest, a 7% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect very good sea conditions in the mornings until Tuesday 1st which will have fair sea conditions. From Wednesday 2nd to Monday 30th the forecast looks very bad, and all tour will be impossible to operate..

Weekly Update June #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 29 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 and Sun Fish. No whale watching this week… And the river group has not been spotted for 56 days.. So be aware of those 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.
On average the tours rated 3.5 stars on our scale 2 tours had a rating of 4 2 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 65Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h41 to cover it. On average we hosted 9 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
Our CO2 emissions were 7.8 Kg per guest, a 6% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect good sea conditions in the mornings, with Thursday 26th that might be too bad for a tour, but we’ll see closer to the date. And Tuesday 24th looking the best day! With the weekend until Tuesday 1st looking to be quite good too!

Weekly Update June #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 29 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 orca. We also found harbour porpoises and Sun Fish. No whale watching this week… And the river group has not been spotted for 49 days.. So be aware of those 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 Cormorant and Puffin.
On average the tours rated 3.2 stars on our scale 1 tours had a rating of 4, 4 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 69Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h40 to cover it. On average we hosted 11 guests per dolphin watching tour and many seasickness cases, with 3 breakfasts lost (the dolphins have been seen in the west, the most exposed side of the bay)
Sea state was on average sea state 1.
Our CO2 emissions were 11.6 Kg per guest, a 2% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect very good sea conditions all week! I might get worst for the weekend, specially Sunday 22nd.

Weekly Update May #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 28 months since the last failed ocean tour. We found at least a second group in all but one of the dolphin tours.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin. No whale watching this week… the river group has been missing for over a month now, it isn’t the best time for booking river tours.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 66Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h39 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 8.6 Kg per guest, a 5% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect bad sea conditions until Wednesday 4th when sea conditions improve but far from ideal. We’ll close the back seats this week as those are the wettest seats. So we’re down to 10 places for the week.

Weekly Update May #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 28 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: Storm petrel, Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 55Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h15 to cover it. On average we hosted 12 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 breakfast lost 🙁
Sea state was on average sea state 3.
Our CO2 emissions were 4.6 Kg per guest, a 5% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions for Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th. But Expecting very good sea conditions Wednesday 28th onward!

Weekly Update Abril #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 28 months since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin.. No whale watching this week, but a  Fin Whale was reported in the area last Thursday.
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: Cory’s Shearwater and Northern Gannet.
All tours rated 3 stars on our scale
We had to travel an average of 74Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h52 to cover it. On average we hosted 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.
Our CO2 emissions were 12.4 Kg per guest, a 9% improvement from last year.
This following week we expect poor sea conditions until Wednesday 7th which is the best day of the whole week! With the following days with fair sea conditions until the return of good sea conditions on the weekend and Monday. with , when weather will deteriorate again..

Weekly Update April #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 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. No whale watching this week…
For the bird watchers, we’ve seen: The first Cory’s Shearwater of 2025!! Northern Gannet and Balearic Shearwater.
On average the tours rated 3.3 stars on our scale 1 tours had a rating of 4 2 tours had a rating of 3
We had to travel an average of 61Km to find the dolphins and return, which took ~2h48 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 poor sea conditions, specially during the mornings. Thursday 1st afternoon seems to be the best day of the week! Followed by Sunday 4th morning.