Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: We has south westerly winds on today´s tour so we decided to depart from Keflavik to make the tour more comfortable for our passengers. If we departed from Reykjavik we would have has strong, cold winds for the majority of the tour and more swell. From Keflavik we sailed with the wind and could not feel how cold it actually was. We traveled along the reykjanes peninsula and north from the town Garður towards the middle of the bay. A cluster of seabirds started to form behind us and we went to investigate but unfortunately no marine mammals there. We sailed for another hour before a passenger tapped me on the shoulder and alerted me to a dolphin. Suddenly a pod of 2-3 white-beaked dolphins came to us out of no where and started playing under and around the boat, first at the front then at the back. They were a little difficult to follow as they were always popping up somewhere different. We then got work from a collegue at land that thought he saw a humpback whale breaching (jumping) so we headed that way, searching for more as we went. Unfortunately the humpback was not found and we decided to offer our passengers complimentary tickets as the dolphins were also quite difficult.
- Megan Whittaker
Bird species seen on todays tour include: Northern fulmar, glaucous gulls, Iceland gulls, black-headed gulls, greater black-backed gulls, common guillemots, eider ducks and European shags, red-breasted mergansers.
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