Saturday, 10 January 2015

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: Saturdays are proving to be our busiest day of the week, so always make sure you book to be guaranteed a space. We took out two boats on this beautiful but very cold day. It was a little windy and the swells were quite high but long, which lulled everyone almost to sleep but the cold bitterly wind kept our passengers a wake. Hafsúlan was the first to spot a pod of white-beaked dolphins, a pod of 4-5 individuals that seemed to be searching for something to eat. We on Elding came a bit later and also saw them well. They didn´t let us get too close but it was wonderful to see them with Reykjavík or the setting sun in the background. A lovely day to be on the water.

-Megan Whittaker

Birds seen on today's tours: eider duck, northern fulmar, common guillemot, northern gannet, glaucous gull, kittiwake, black-backed gull, long-tailed ducks, whooper swans, cormorants, and european shag.