This was just OK- a sunset cruise where you sail out maybe a mile and then circle around waiting for sunset and heading back in. No real attempt to seek out wildlife which I guess is the mantra of respecting the habitat, but calling it a dolphin search in any way is quite misleading. Crew could interact with the guests more, make it more personable beyond showing us a book of wildlife facts.
Boat ride is good and comfortable and if you want a quiet, leisure sunset cruise this might be okay, but don't expect much more than that. In my eyes, sit on the dock and save yourself some $$.
Odpowiedź od gospodarza
Dec 2022
Thank you for taking the time to share feedback and we are so sorry to hear that the trip did not meet your expectations and that your 2 hour Dolphin Search and Sunset Sail did not turn into Dolphin Watching!
At Honest Eco we offer three different trips that vary in their focus. Unfortunately, it seems like our 4 hour “Dolphin Watch and Snorkel” trip aboard our electric catamaran SQUID may have been a better fit for you and your family.
On our longer 4 hour trips we have time to search in multiple areas and almost always find dolphins and we also will snorkel.
On our 2 hour Sunset Sail and Dolphin Search, our best bet is typically to search one location thoroughly, and enjoy the sunset from a sailboat, regardless of our luck with dolphins- no matter how skilled we are, we still only get to watch dolphins if mother nature allows it! As our day job is observing wild dolphins, we typically can leverage that information into finding dolphins on our sunset sails, but wild dolphins do swim 20+ miles a day, and that sun is always going to set on time. This is why we describe the Sunset Sail as a “Dolphin Search” vs. the “Dolphin Watch” terminology on our 4 hour trip. I do understand where you are coming from though and I will definitely double check my wording and descriptions.
Also, it is a little “insider baseball” but just so you know, when we are searching for dolphins, we basically are driving in big looping circles in the area that we think the dolphins will be while we scan the water for a dorsal fins and other tells. I apologize that we didn’t communicate more clearly what we were up to and I’ll check in with the captains and crew on that for sure, but while it sounds a little funny, us doing big circles, grid patterns and outward spirals is how we search.
Sincerely,
Captain Billy, owner