Our team

Whale Wise Eco Tours is a proud member of the WeWhale Family!

Mercedes Reyes

Founder, Researcher, Guide, Captain

Mercedes is a Marine Biologist (MSc Marine Mammal Science), with over 20 years of experience on cetacean research and conservation. Her main interests are dolphin behaviour, bioacoustics, cymatics and interspecies communication. Since she was a little girl she wanted to understand dolphins, their language and their connection to humans.

She has dedicated her life to pursuit this interest, as well as, to protect cetaceans and their habitat. Mercedes is also a responsible whale watching nerd, knowing a lot about the regulations, laws and guidelines. She has worked in the UK, Spain and Vancouver Island (Canada), with NGOs and Governments to monitor, educate and enforce good practices around whales. She is an innate naturalist, and her passion, love, respect and knowledge easily flows to her audiences.

JesúsM. Marcelino

Captain, Vessel Maintenance

Jesus is our most experienced captain, with years of experience at sea, and an impressive background of profesional maritime certifications under his arm. He deeply respects whales and dolphins and drives the boat always carefully around them.

Jesús is also very handy with deep understading about electricity, mechanics and boats in general. Among all his skills, we admire his trained and sharp sight to find whales and dolphins, and other marine wildlife at sea.

Jesus, when he is not at sea, he is enjoying quality time with his kids, or helping others using his skills to fix all sorts of machinery. He has a great attitude and endless hunger to learn and improve, as well as being an amaizing team member.

Laura Pérez

Researcher, Biologist, Guide

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Shiny

Children lover, Vacuum cleaner

Shiny is our much loved pet companion, who loves to be on the boat, swimming in the ocean and is specially interested about watching spotted dolphins play around the boat. She comes out at sea with us often specially on long days, so that she does not stay home alone with the boring old cats she lives with.

Her primary job on the boat is taking long naps, and making sure that our floor is free of snacks. She loves children and she has very good attitude 100% of the time!