Pico, Azores : On 17th September at around 4:30pm, Pedro Madruga met a large group of spotted dolphins, more than 200 individuals, 3 miles south of the Manhenha lighthouse on Pico. He described the group as “very interactive” and probably a new group as he wasn’t able to identify any of the individuals and because the behaviour of the dolphins was very “naive”…for sure they had never met any homo sapiens turistus disturbis before !!!! 

Until this point , it was nothing more than a very good encounter to be  shared between sea (observed) and land (observer) mammal ! But suddenly a small white shadow appeared to the left of the boat….  from the shadow surfaced a white dolphin.
The Azorean sea gave us Moby Dick’s great son a fews weeks ago, this time we had this incredible encounter with a white dolphin.
Greetings from sunny Pico, and thanks to Pedro for the photos.

Serge Viallelle