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We are sailing out today from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik. There are some winds blowing in from the south east so there might be some movement on the boat. Don't miss todays chance to book a ticket for adventure!
Tour at 17:00
Report from Eldey: The weather can surprise you in Iceland sometimes and that is what happened on this evening tour. All of a sudden we were sailing under a blue sky with considerably less wind compared to the afternoon. It took us about an hour to spot our first cetaceans, a small pod of 2-3 white-beaked dolphins who turned out to be a bit elusive, Therefore we decided to follow up on some splashes we had seen in the distance and met our first minke whale of the evening. It was swimming very fast and changing directions a lot so that we thought that it was feeding on the rich fish stocks underneath. After a little while a large flock of diving northern gannets caught our attention in the near distance. Within that flock we found more white-beaked dolphins, about 4-5 individuals. But the splashes of a feeding minke whale nearby was what made us curious and it was great to observe the minke lunge feeding. Another minke whale joined in and we spent the rest of our time with these two enjoying their behaviours. On our way back we were accompanied by a gorgeous sunset. A great ending to a very nice day in Faxa bay.
- Barbara Neubarth
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: When we were sailing out this afternoon the wind had freshened up and overcast made it hard for the sun to come through. But our overalls kept us warm and made the sailing outside a pleasant experience. We spotted our first minke whale after about 40 minutes of sailing right behind us, but only saw it coming up two times. So we decided to head further out and saw another minke whale really close to the boat and could stay with that individual a while and watch it surfacing all around us. Then we continued our search and did not see much for a while before another minke whale came up right next to us. At the same time we had heard about a pod of 3-5 white-beaked dolphins close to Akranes and we went there even though time was running out. And luckily we did because the dolphins were adorable and even followed us bow-riding on our way back. What a good afternoon.
- Barbara Neubarth
Tour at 09:00
Report from Eldey: it was a windy morning, the wind built up swells, they were short waves that didn't affect our sailing much. It felt warm with the overalls. Our first sighting was of 3 white beaked dolphins! They kept going for long dives so it was certainly not easy to follow them around, after a few minutes with them we decided to move on. We then found an area with few minke whales. It was difficult to say if these were 3 or 4 individuals as they all seemed to be feeding and were difficult to predict. We got a great look at them few times when they surfaced close to our boat. Our last sighting was 3 harbour porpoises that popped up right next to us on the way back to land.
-Sigurlaug Sigurðardóttir
Bird species seen on today´s tours include: northern gannet, northern fulmar, common guillemot, Atlantic puffin, lesser black-backed gull, great skua, herring gull, cormorant, sooty shearwater and manx shearwater.