Encounter with the dolphin school :)

Hello lovers of the sea!

I am so happy when I think about the tour we had this afternoon. As a guide here, I get to see many whales and dolphins during a week, but seeing at least 90 Common dolphins together… that is not so common! I did not have this experience before and could not stop grinning myself. We could observe how the young dolphins learned to jump – some of them deliberately jumping on their sides (so cute!). We had a good time watching them. Some jumps took place in between the resting Cory Shearwaters, which was also really nice to see. At a certain point one was even able to hear their songs above the surface – that was amazing.

But I jumped ahead in my story: Before encountering this big group, we saw a few individuals of Common dolphins at another spot, next to three Loggerhead turtles!

After a good half an hour with the big group however, we followed the call from our lookout to get to the whalezone, where we waited a little. After waiting for a blow of a whale it is always exciting to then suddenly see one! We followed the blows and were led to the causer: A fin whale! We were honored to meet this giant three times, once from really close by! We could hear the blow and were all stunned by the whale’s beauty.