In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 379 days since the last failed ocean tour. We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin.On average, we had 8 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases. But we managed to save the breakfast! Sea state was on average sea state 2 and the average tour ranking was 3 out of 5.This following week we will be doing some maintenance and upgrades to our boat. Tours will be conducted in different boats, without Francisco as your guide.We plan to be fully operational from Wednesday 7th, onward!
In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 351 days since the last failed ocean tour.
We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin. and Sun FishOn average, we had 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 2 seasickness cases.
Sea state was on average sea state 2.This following week we expect bad sea conditions until the week end. We’ll be closed until the 6th.
In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 344 days since the last failed ocean tour. However we did have a tour with just one dolphin.. We sighted 2 dolphin species, the common dolphin and bottlenose dolphins.On average, we had 8 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 with only Saturday 30th and maybe Sunday 31st with good sea conditions.After the week end, the weather seems to only get better on the 2nd week of January.
In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 330 days since the last failed tour. We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin.On average, we had 7 guests per dolphin watching tour and 1 seasickness case. Sea state was on average sea state 1.This following week we only expect good sea conditions for Tuesday 12th and Friday 15th, the other days until next week will be too windy for the ocean tours.
In the past week we found dolphins in all of the dolphin watching tours, 323 days since the last failed tour. We sighted 1 dolphin species, the common dolphin.On average, we had 6 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases. Sea state was on average sea state 2.This following week Wednesday will be the only day with a tour planned, as we expect poor sea conditions and rainy days until the weekend. On the weekend we expect good wind conditions but some high seas which can reduce our capability of finding dolphins. Still bookings have been quite low, meeting the minimum guest number will be another threat to the tours.
On average, we had 10 guests per dolphin watching tour and 0 seasickness cases. Sea state was on average sea state 1. In the weekend we got quite windy conditions, ending up cancelling Sunday’s tour.
This following week we expect windy conditions until Wednesday 30th. We still plan to go out in the mornings, but we might have to cancel the tours of Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th. The rest of the week will have good sea conditions in the morning. The weekend might have some chance of showers.
We will open the Lisbon&Dolphins tour, the river tour between 30th and 2rd to provide the opportunity to check the tall ships from the tall ship race.
The past week had an unprecedented amount of dolphins sighted in the river Tagus. A total of 5 sightings were recorded on video and shared throughout social media, 4 of them were in consecutive days. Last sighting of the week, the furthest upriver
All sightings were of small groups of common dolphins, corroborating the previous studies which indicated that common dolphins are the most sighted species in the Tagus. This contrasts with all the other rivers, which have mostly bottlenose dolphin sightings. This could be related to the depth preferences of these species, common dolphins prefer depths of at least 20m while bottlenose dolphins are perfectly comfortable in waters 2m deep. Most rivers do not get deeper than 10m, making them unsuitable for common dolphins to visit. However the impressive depth of the Tagus river with depths up to 60m, delivers enough depth for the common dolphins to visit while hunting schools of fish.
Only 2 of the sightings were in the usual area where we find them in our dolphin watching tours, close to the mouth of the river.
Two others were closer to the 25th of April bridge, one downriver and the other upriver from the bridge.
And on Sunday the last sighting was further upriver, inside the estuary, very close to the shore at Parque das Nações, the “New Lisbon” 25 km from the Sea. Impressive indeed but not close to a record, in 2010 this species were photographed 48 km upriver!!
The reasons why so many sightings condensed within a week remain unknown. Most likely numerous factors contributed to it, namely regular schools of fish entering the river probably for spawning, as feeding was the main activity seen in the videos.
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