Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: The wind had picked up during the day and resulted in unexpectedly high swells. They made the tour pretty bumpy and many passengers had green faces after a short while. We sailed towards the west first, and then headed further south when we got news from another whale watching boat about a few cetaceans they had spotted. It took a while to get to that area but then we managed to get a look at a small group of 2-3 white-beaked dolphins. Even though they were playing around the bow of out boat for a few minutes, it was challenging to keep track of them and then they disappeared in the waves. We didn't spot them again, however, as we started to head to the harbour, we came across another group of 3-4 white-beaked dolphins traveling in front of us. Unfortunately, they also vanished quickly, so that we offered all of our passengers the complimentary tickets that are valid for the next two years!
- Hanna Michel
Tour at 09:00
Report from Eldey: We went out in great sea condition and the weather was nice except for a short rainy part. In conditions like these it should be quite easy to spot animals so we were optimistic. Nevertheless we sailed and searched with no sighting except for three harbour porpoises. Harbour porpoises are the smallest cetaceans that are found around Iceland. It is often difficult to spot them because of their small size but this time they came really close to our boat so most passengers in front of the boat got to see the. Unfortunately this was our only sighting of cetaceans on the tour and for that reason we gave out complimentary tickets in hope that our passengers will come back with us to see the whales and dolphins of Faxaflói.
- Sigurlaug
Bird species seen on today's tours include: northern gannets, northern fulmars, kittiwakes, shooty shearwater, eider ducks, glaucous gulls and lesser black-backed gulls.