Whale watching trip reports around Madeira, August 2018

Sea temperatures are now around 24ºC which makes one desire to be a dolphin or a whale and spend lots of time at the ocean, specially when air temperatures have been so high. But that is exactly what attracts cetaceans to the waters around Madeira archipelago!

Week 34: From 27th August to 2nd September 2018
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

Week 33: From 20th to 26th August 2018
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Pygmy killer whale Feresa attenuata
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Rough-toothed dolphin Steno bredanensis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni

Week 32: From 13th to 19th August 2018
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus

Week 31: From 6th to 12th August 2018
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis

Week 30: From 30th July to 5th August 2018
Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni
False killer whale Pseudorca crassidens
Short-finned pilot whale Globicephala macrorhynchus
Common Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella frontalis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba