Thursday, 1 October 2026

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 13:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 9:00, 12:00, 15:00

Today's Whale Watching tours from Reykjavík are on schedule as shown above ! Remember to dress according to weather and feel free to borrow our thermal overalls if needed!

Report from Eldey: The winds had turned to a southern direction in the morning and so we went out on calm seas with just a slight drizzle. Good conditions to search for whales and other wildlife out on Faxaflói bay. Not far out we spotted the first humpback whale that showed us its wonderful white fluke when going for a longer dive. While waiting for the humpback to come up again we also spotted a minke whale a few hundred meters away. This smaller an fast whales tend to be more shy and hence it was no surprise to us that it kept its distance to us. After a while with these whales we went on further out and just minutes later spotted a second humpback whale. However this one spend a long time under water and so we went on to see what to find further out. Again a good decision as it turned out as we found a pair of humpback whales. One of them was our old friend Davy Jones II, a whale known for his friendly and sometimes spectacular surface behavior when close to our boats. Also this time he did not disappoint and surfaced mere meters beside our boat giving us a wonderful impression of his massive size. As it came to the time to head back to the harbor and we turned the boat, one of the whales bid us its farewell by breaching twice. A great spectacle to end this great tour with!

- Anna Richter

Report from Eldey: This afternoon the sea calmed down and the sun came out. We set sail into our beautiful bay Faxaflói. Not long after we spotted a blow on the horizon! As we came closer we discovered it was 2 humpback whales, namely Davy Jones II and friend! First they started calm and curious and then got closer and closer. We saw the fluke a few times from both even though the smaller one was a little fluke shy. Both came incredibly close and we could see their pectoral fins glowing through the water. Then - a complete change of behavior, the smaller one started tail slapping nonstop! It even turned around and was doing upside down tail slaps! After that more tail slapping and then peduncle throws! What an encounter. Its hard to say what the relationship between the two whales was, but to us it seemed like Davy was supervising or babysitting the younger playful whale! We stayed as long as we could and when the whales calmed down we decided to got for a sail ourselves, 
evntually we returning to harbor.

- Knut Albrecht

black guillemot, common guillemot, Manx shearwater, sooty shearwater, Northern fulmar, Northern gannet, glaucous gull, herring gull, lesser and great black-backed gull, black-legged kittiwake, common eider, great cormorant, European shag