Our first group is over, and most of the team has gone home. Our last day on the water showed us both the highs and the lows of being on a research team. In the morning we were lucky in our sightings – sperm whales with newborns, more fin whales, and a species not often seen here: false killer whales. We then spent the entire afternoon without any sightings, following transect after transect listening for, and not finding, a last sperm whale.
We did manage to take a group picture, and Axel designed and painted our 2012 Biosphere Expeditions mural on the wharf.
Thank you very much group 1! I’m looking forward to the group 2’s arrival on Saturday.
Update from our whale and dolphin volunteer vacation / conservation holiday around the Azores archipelago
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