Thursday, 29 October 2026

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

Today's Classic 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: We sailed out into the rain and wind, with grey fog enveloping us as we passed by Engey. We first began searching around the islands, and briefly spotted 1-2 harbour porpoises who were in quite the hurry. After a bit, the skies cleared and we could see blue again! We headed out further into the bay and after about an hour of sailing we spotted two humpback whales! We initially thought it was just one, but a smaller one surfaced right next to it shortly after: it was Banana! We watched the two go for a few dives before it was time to say goodbye to them and head back to Reykjavík.

-Sigrún Helgu

Report from Eldey: On our second tour of the day, the weather got better! That allowed us to go more into the bay, exploring. We didn't need to go far to find our first whale though: right after we left the harbour, a minke whale popped up, lunge feeding! We could keep on track on it because of the trace of small fluke prints left by it before it even came up to the surface. What a special sighting, we could stay with it for a while before exploring the bay. Out there, we spotted a blow in the distance and we went to investigate. A humpback whale was swimming around, very beautiful. This one was spending a little while down there, just in time when we spotted another blow: another humpback not far from us! This one was resting, going very slowly for shallow dives. For many minutes, it was swimming calmly next to our vessel, where everyone could see it's long and white pectoral fins through the surface. As we were quite far out, we started heading back to port, enjoying the sunshine and a hot drink.

- Milla Brandao

black-backed gull, European shag, great cormorant, glaucous gull, sooty shearwater, razorbill, common guillemot, herring gull, common eider