Tuesday, 29 September 2026
- CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 17:00
- CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00
- PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 12:00, 15.00
Today's Whale Watching tour at 09:00 from Reykjavík is cancelled!
Today's afternoon tour at 13:00 is on schedule!
CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00
Report from Eldey: With a mighty breeze and some cloudy skies, we bundled up and set sail out into the bay. Just past the buoy heading into the bay towards Grotta Lighthouse, we spotted not one but the blows of TWO humpback whales! This pair had short dive times which allowed for almost continuous viewing. This pair was nice and relaxed and one even rolled so we could see half of their fluke and one of their pectoral fins! As we were watching this pair, another solitary humpback whale surfaced! The pair stayed together whereas the third individual was solitary. We also had some Northern Gannets plunge diving in the area, so it was clear that the food had moved closer towards the harbor, which was lovely, especially on a windy day like today. After multiple surface sequences, our pair of humpbacks gave us a bit of a fluke dive. On that note we waved our 3 humpbacks goodbye and continued. Only a few minutes farther and we spotted the dorsal of one minke whale. This individual gave us a nice surface sequence before swimming off to waters unknown to us and so we continued. As we continued we had another solitary minke whale surface ahead of us! This individual was much smaller than the first minke whale and so possibly a younger minke. When this individual surfaced again we could smell that classic ´stinky minke´ breath and so this individual was ahead of us. Although we could certainly smell them, we could not spot them and so after a few minutes of searching around, we continued. We looked around some of our closer feeding areas, before waving the bay goodbye and heading back to port. After encountering three humpback whales (1pair, 1 solitary) and 2 solitary minke whales, we certainly had a successful afternoon!
- Matteo Poggio
Birds seen today include:
Eider duck, greater and lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, black-legged kittiwake, Northern gannet, Northern fulmar