# Espaço Talassa, Lajes do Pico

URL: https://picoisland.pt/whale-watching/espaco-talassa
Status: verified
Last verified: 2026-09-19

Espaço Talassa is a whale watching operator based in Lajes do Pico, on the island's south coast, a few steps from the whalers' museum on Rua dos Baleeiros. It runs boat trips to watch cetaceans and holds free public talks on weekday evenings at six.

## At a glance

- Where: Lajes do Pico
- Address: 9930-143 Lajes do Pico (source: https://espacotalassa.com/en/)
- Coordinates: 38.3958° N, 28.2538° W (source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3479489728)
- Phone: +351 292 672 010 (source: https://espacotalassa.com/en/)
- Website: https://espacotalassa.com/ (source: https://espacotalassa.com/en/)

## About

Espaço Talassa operates out of Lajes do Pico, the town on the south coast where the island's
commercial whaling industry was based until it ended. That location is not incidental. The
[Museu dos Baleeiros](/things-to-do/museu-dos-baleeiros) is on the same street, and the lookout
culture that once found whales for the harpoon boats is the same culture that now finds them for
the watching boats.

The company publishes free talks, open to anyone, every weekday at 18h00. If you are staying in
Lajes and the sea is too rough to sail, that is the fallback worth knowing about: it costs nothing
and it runs whether or not you have booked a trip.

Sailing from Lajes suits a visitor basing themselves on the south coast. If you are coming over
from Horta for the day, the ferry lands at Madalena on the opposite side of the island, and the
drive across takes real time. Check the [ferry timetable](/getting-here/ferry/timetable) and be
honest about the schedule before booking a south-coast departure for the same day.

Like every operator in Azorean waters, Espaço Talassa works under the licensing and approach rules
set out on the [whale watching hub](/whale-watching): boats keep 50 metres off, and no more than
three sit near a group at once.

## What this page does not tell you

No prices, no sailing times, no trip duration and no boat specification. None of them has been
checked against a primary source, and all of them move with the season, so they are absent rather
than approximated. Take them from the operator directly.

The company's founding year is also left out. It is widely repeated online as 1989, but it is not
stated on the company's own site, and a date repeated by other guides is not a source.