Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Tour 17:00

This late afternoon tour has been really special: the sea conditions were perfect and the whales very active! In fact, we had a lot of white-beaked dolphins, probably two groups, fast travelling, and even jumping, then we spotted a minke whale and we even had a humpback whale, we could observe for a while, that suddenly jumped not that far from us.. really spectacular!

 

Tour 13:00

The wind increased a littl bit but still it was very calm the sea. A very warm 1300 tour with still alot of minke whales around: we encountered a group of more than 5 minke whales, feeding with birds and during the sighting we even had a young minke whale that it approached us, then it turned underwater in belly up, to surfaced again on the opposite side of the boat showing its whitish belly again! It was really spectacular! We spotted again also a group of white-beaked dolphins which afst swam in front of us!

Tour 9:00

A beautiful day today: the sea was very calm and flat, almost no wind and excelletn visibility. In fact, the glacier Snæfellsjökull was visible! We had a very good chance to wee whales: at least 10 minke whales in the first area and the same amount in the second place wher we stopped. They were mainly feeding in association with a lot of seabords! We also had two sightings of a group of four white-beaked dolphins.