Dolphin Sightings

Marine life off Puerto de Mogán

A few miles out from the harbour mouth the seabed drops away sharply. Deep water close to shore is why there is so much life here, and why you can be looking at it twenty minutes after casting off.

Bottlenose and striped dolphins are resident all year. Loggerhead turtles come up to breathe, and flying fish break the surface ahead of the bow on calm days. Further out, pilot whales pass through.

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We do not run dolphin-watching trips

Watching cetaceans commercially in the Canaries needs its own licence, and we do not offer it. Nothing on this page is a booking: it is what the sea off Mogán holds. Sightings are never promised, by us or by anyone — these are wild animals.

What does sail from Mogán

The Güigüí beach trip, four hours along a coast with no road to it. A private charter on the Malu V, by the hour, where the boat is yours and the route is what the skipper can do with that day’s sea. And parasailing, which takes very little time.

If dolphins show up on any of them, that is the day being generous. It is not what you are paying for.

We sail from Puerto de Mogán, at the far south-west of Gran Canaria, where the wind drops and the water turns clear.