Tour at 13:00
Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: Saturdays are proving to be quite busy these days, always beneficial to book to guarentee youself a place. Today was no exception and we went out on two boats with about 200 passengers spread between them both for more a more comfortable tour. The weather could not have been better; the sea was calm, skies a bit overcast but incredible to see the sun breaking through them over the Reykjanes Peninsula, the landscape layered with snow and the visibility at it's best. You could see all the way to Snæfellsjökull, 120km away from Reykjavik. We searched a vast area of faxafloi and came across a couple of harbour porpoises, two pods of 1-3 animals but they were very elusive and difficult to track. Thats all the cetacean any of us saw today, disappointing regarding the bigger cetaceans but it was still a very pleasant tour. We offered our passengers a complimentary ticket which is good for two years and enjoyed the wildlife that is always around, the birds, on the way home.
Birds we saw on our tour today includes: Shags, cormorants, glaucous gulls, fulmars, kittiwakes, black-backed gulls, gannets, long-tailed ducks and eider ducks.
-Megan Whittaker and Sigurlaug Sigurðardóttir