Dolphin & Whale watching @ Golfo Dulce

This is how it is on Golfo Dulce in southern Costa Rica. During whale-watching season, you might see a Humpback Whalemother  and her calf just offshore. Almost always will you see dolphins when you go on a boat tour of the Golfo Dulce or kayaking in the Esquina River. Golfo Dulce is home to resident and migratory communities of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Spottednose Dolphins (Stenella attenuata). Every July/August when whale-watching season begins in Golfo Dulce, endangered Pacific Humpback Whales migrate to Costa Rica’s warm waters to breed and give birth. The Gulf‘s calm and very clear jade-green-blue water makes it easy to see abundant marine life. Spotted Dolphins are some of the most common dolphins to see, whether in small pods in shallow inshore waters or huge group, like we habe seen it up to 150 Dolphins offshore in deep ocean. Bottlenose Dophins stay closer to the river mouths, using the tidal cycles to catch fish.

Humpback Whale

Kayaking @ the Esquina River

Spottednose Dolphin