|15-07-2019| Circle Caldeira with a great team
We had an intense morning observing plants, insects and a 2km wide crater with constantly changing clouds. Here some memories of our...
|16-07-2019| Sperm whales, Sowerby's Beaked Whales and Risso's dolphins!
Amazing day with special encounters for our Naturalist explorers and researchers onboard. We were able to collect different data from...
|15-07-2019 pm| A trip for dolphin lovers: Bottlenose and Atlantic-spotted dolphins and Sperm whales
We had a special private tour focused on dolphins: a family that wanted to find Atlantic-spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis). The first...
|15-07-2019 am| Sperm whales and Striped dolphins in Faial, Azores
A pod of 10 Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) showed up in the North of Faial Island. One of the animals breached out, giving us the...
|14-07-2019| Sperm whales, Bottlenose dolphins and Common dolphins: 3 expeditions in Faial, Azores
It was a long day for the Naturalist.pt research team! The Azorean whales and dolphins presented us unique moments. Sperm whales...
| 08-07-2019 | Yellow Flower Blooming on the Circle Caldeira Hiking
We are still to understand the reason while so many of our #native and #endemic #flowers are yellow. From Lysimachia to Rubia agostinhoi,...
| Natural Calendar | July - Julho
The temperature is now quite high, being well above 20º in land and reaching more than 22ºC at sea. A white mist is often formed at sea...
|13-07-2019| Hiking in Faial - Cabeço Verde - Capelinhos
It was a great morning exploring the paths and plants of the azores trails through volcanoes of the Capelinhos complex. We finished in...
|13-07-2019| Northern bottlenose whales and Bottlenose dolphins
After 5 minutes of leaving Horta, we found a pod of 30 Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). After some minutes for image collection...
|12-07-2019 pm| Bottlenose dolphins and Sperm whales in the North of Faial
Animals were around Faial, and Naturalist explorers were onboard to see them. In this afternoon we saw Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops...