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The fishing harbour in Ponta Delgada.
O Palácio da Conceição
typical road in center of ponta delgada
Baía dos AnjosWhale watiching.
Whale watching is big on the Azores and Ponta Delgada has several companies offering it.
The Azores has a lot of whales, both several spieces of migrating whales aswell as quite a lot of sperm whales who reside there all year long.
There was commercial whaling on the Azores until 1986 but these days they make money out of showing the whales to the tourists and of the many companies offering it in Ponta Delgada there are a couple of real good ones with professional marine biologists working for them and a very responsible attitude.
I would highly recommend whale watching as it is spectacular and by creating a whale watching economy then there will be very few people wanting to back to hunting whales like you see people do in other parts of the world.
Of the companíes working with this in Ponta Delgada i would recommend "futurismo" or "picos de ventura" as they are very good.
