Tuesday, 29 March 2015

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: We left the humpback whales close to land on the morning tour so we started searching for them as soon as we left the harbor. It only took us 20 minutes until we spotted the first blows. We got really good look at the animals while they kept in the same are feeding. We saw 5 individuals within 300 meters from the boat and 2 further away. Because we saw them so early on the tour we could stay with them for longer time. On the way back to Reykjavik it got colder but it was still furth it to stay outside because of the stunning view we had of the mountains of Faxaflói. 

-Sigurlaug Sigurðardóttir

Tour at 9:00

Report from Eldey: It was a crisp winters morning, snow was falling and everything has white. It was beautiful. It's been a few weeks now since the last snow maybe even over a month so it was a nice surprise to wake up too. It was a chilly morning in the bay and everyone made use of the complimentary overalls and bought nice hot drinks at our bar. We sailed first offshore but then got word from another one of our captains that was luckily transferring a vessel to another port that there were humpback whales close to the town of Hafnafjörður, it took us about about an hour to get there but were surprised to see not just one humpback whale but at least eight. three traveling together, two pairs and one single animals. They were milling in the area and showing their flukes (tails) many times, It was amazing. Amount all the humpback whales a minke whale quickly surfaced, a species I love to see as many of them are our friends and its always lovely to see them (recognised by the nicks and notches). We had such a great tour close to the coast that we ended the tour in Hafnarfjorður so that we could spend more time with this incredible and beautiful animals. 

- Megan Whittaker

Bird species seen on todays tours include: northern gannet, northern fulmar, shag, glaucous gull, Iceland gull, kittiwake, herring gull, long tailed ducks and eider duck.