30.12.2023 – Happy endings

The last tours of the year took place today for our guests from Lobosonda. We were treated to beautiful, close encounters with Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) and, at midday, Blainville’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris). The Pilot whales and our Golden Girls, the two Beaked whale ladies, were very relaxed. What a beautiful, bright golden color they had. Their quiet existence is a wonderful reminder that in the hustle and bustle of life, you should definitely relax sometimes. Maybe a good resolution for the coming year is to let the crazy hectic pace of everyday life run its course on it’s own every now and then and to get out of always having to do, to do more and more and to practice simply being. The most important thing is not performance and success, but satisfaction and happiness. Today we had nice happy endings for 2023.

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by Fatima Kutzschbach

Sightings of the day

Ribeira Brava

09:30 Bottlenose dolphins, Pilot whales

13:30 Bottlenose dolphins, Pilot whales, Blainville’s beaked whales

Stenella

09:30 Bottlenose dolphins, Pilot whales, Atlantic spotted dolphins

13:30 Bottlenose dolphins, Pilot whales, Blainville’s beaked whales