They were always there, enjoying the strait of Gibraltar, until, in the end, ten years ago, Whale Watch España decided to offer an unforgettable experience to the tourists:
The observation of dolphins and whales in her natural surroundings, while these beautiful sea mammals are playing around the boats, performing acrobatic jumps.
At the moment there are a total of four enterprises in Tarifa and three in Gibraltar who offer the whale and dolphin observation in the strait of Gibraltar. There exists a worldwide nearly unique biodiversity in sea mammals and other emigration animals. In addition, the area was declared to nature reserve three years ago.
The dolphins to be observed here, bottlenose-dolphins as well as full-grown animals, have in this strait, which separates Africa and Europe, her natural living space. At the beginning of the summer there can also be observed killer whales.
All around the year there can be met, even if only sporadically, sperm whales or the exceedingly impressive fin whales, which bring it on up to 20-meter length and more than 80 metric tons of body weight.
Lourdes Isasa, manager of Whale Watch España and, at the same time, pioneer of this activity in the zone, estimates that only in the strait of Gibraltar could live about 400 whales plus the more than 1000 dolphins which are expected to live in the bay of Algeciras.
Annually about 100,000 nature lovers take part in these excursions offered in the Costa de la Luz. Whilst, during the winter months, there are about four daily trips, the number of excursions can reach up to 16 every day in summer.
The trip in the heart of the strait of Gibraltar lasts about four hours and offers an excellent opportunity to get to know the sea in company of a skilled and polyglot crew.
Behind the enterprise Whale Watch España stand researchers and sea biologists, whose aim consists in bringing the knowledge about this unique living space to a wide audience.
In so doing, it ought to be reached that the fauna of the strait of Gibraltar is estimated, protected and academically investigated.
During the excursions, the crew tells the most interesting stories all around the sea mammals, thus, for example, that the origin of the name of the near to the strait of Gibraltar situated Bahía de Getares (Getares bay) results from the phrase “where the big fishes live”.
Thus a Norwegian society founded a whale-processing factory in 1920 here, which, luckily for the whales, after an owner's change in 1963, definitively closed her gates.
Today dolphins and whales delight those human visitors of the strait of Gibraltar who search the nearness to a unique sea natural landscape at this mythical place.
IM WASSER
AM ZIEL 
BILSCHIRMHINTERGRÜNDE
They were always there, enjoying the strait of Gibraltar, until, in the end, ten years ago, Whale Watch España decided to offer an unforgettable experience to the tourists: 
The dolphins to be observed here, bottlenose-dolphins as well as full-grown animals, have in this strait, which separates Africa and Europe, her natural living space. At the beginning of the summer there can also be observed killer whales.
Behind the enterprise Whale Watch España stand researchers and sea biologists, whose aim consists in bringing the knowledge about this unique living space to a wide audience.