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Sal Island: Guided Lemon Shark Watching Tour on the Eastern Coast
Experience a guided lemon shark watching tour on Sal Island’s eastern coast. Learn about these fascinating creatures in their natural environment. Book now!
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Shark Bay - Join this adventurous experience and observe lemon sharks in their natural habitat.\nVisit the eastern part of the island on a beach that boasts a natural colony of lemon sharks, slightly brown or sand-colored when in its natural environment. Choose to stay on the beach and watch the sharks with binoculars or go into the water to see them up close.\n\nThe lemon shark is medium to large and is not a threat to people, but it can be a danger to other animals in the ocean. Its scientific name is Negaprion Brevirostris. The average length of a lemon shark is about two and a half to three meters. Some of the largest lemon sharks measure about 3.4 meters. These sharks grow about 50 centimeters a year.\n\nAfter spending 60 minutes swimming with the sharks and learning everything about them, you will be taken back to your hotel or hostel where you were picked up.\nLearn all about sharks and their habitat with the help of a professional guide.
What's Included
- Private transportation
- Child seat on request (age 0-3)
- Liability insurance covered
- Hotel transfer included
- Professional guide assistance
- Water shoes and safety equipment provided
Additional Information
A native and professional tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and after an informative transfer trip of approximately 25 minutes you will arrive at the eastern part of the island, on the beach with the natural nursery rife of the lemon sharks, which is a brown shark. clear, sand-colored, in its natural environment. These sharks pose no threat to humans. To enter the water you must wear water shoes or crocs for walking on rocky surfaces.
The Lemon Shark is medium to large in size and its scientific name is Negaprion Brevirostris.
After spending 40 minutes learning all about sharks, you will be taken back to your accommodation or hotel where you were picked up. Water shoes suitable for the surface of the place included for your safety and comfort.
- Don’t forget to bring: GoPro/Camera, Swimsuits and Towel
- Water shoes suitable for the surface of the place included for your safety and comfort.
- All-inclusive package at no extra cost!
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Beverley_k
Jul 17, 2024
Baby sharks - Great trip need good water shoes. The shark just swim around around got amazing photos. The tour guide has good local knowledge of the area.
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Darren_s
Jul 13, 2024
Shark watching - Great time observing lemon sharks in Thier natural environment with great guides .
Very knowledgeable and friendly safe sea to walk in.
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Ute
May 18, 2024
Great tour, guided by a dedicated biologist - Educational tour about Cabo Verde's nature and about lemon sharks. The baby sharks live in safe shallow water where we could watch them swim around.
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Heidi
Apr 10, 2024
Fantastic experience - Fantastic experience where we were taken care of in the best way. The guide who drove us to the sharks was great fun and gave us lots of tips about the island. Definitely worth a visit!
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851rosalbas
Apr 2, 2024
Where to go to the seaside in winter - Santa Maria is perfect for a holiday in winter, 27 degrees, even the sea temperature is right for diving in without problems, many little places to have a good dinner in the small pedestrian centre.
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Shirleyyappy
Mar 7, 2024
Great experience - Booked through tui pick up from hotel took 30 mins to get there.
You can hire crocs for 3 euros when you arrive there.
Be careful rocks are very slippy someone in our party fell and had to go to hospital.
We saw lots of baby lemon sharks and a few fish.
Water was nice and warm up to knee deep.
There are a couple of stalls there people try to sell you things.
Overall a great experience
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581lenaj
Feb 26, 2024
Fantastic experience - A fantastic experience to see the small sharks swimming around your legs when you stand in the water. You rented shoes (foppatoffel) for 3 euros on the beach where you are dropped off. The stones are sharp and it is a bit difficult to walk on them in the water, so not recommended if you have difficulty walking. We went with the marine biologist Desmond who was very good and nice.
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Jesperc194
Feb 17, 2024
Great experience - Excellent service and tour, can highly recommend this tour and guide. Great with pickup directly from the hotel reception
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Michellesh2717jf
Feb 13, 2024
A fab family experience - A fantastic close encounter with the baby lemon sharks and we could see the fins of the parent sharks out at sea! The guide was very knowledgeable and answered all our questions. A must see activity - thank you
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Cajsacarin
Feb 8, 2024
We highly recommend this tour. - Fantastic tour. Our guide (Elisa?) who is a marine biologist, gave us much interesting information about the marine life and she also very nice.
Do the trip!
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