Tour at 17:00
Report from Eldey: Our first cetacean species on this tour was a minke whale. It was a bit tricky to watch it as it was surfacing just 2 times in a row and diving longer dives. This behaviour implied the animal was fishing, and we also saw lots of fish on sonar. After this encounter we spend a lot of time in search of other cetaceans in the bay but with no luck...However, on our way back, we were caught by surprised by a pod of 3-4 very active white-beaked dolphins. They were head slapping toward us, leaping, jumping, surfing in the waves...And all that very close to our boat. Even came to the bow! Very nice encounter!
-Tena Sarcevic
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: On this tour we saw a minke whale very nicely. It was surfacing few times in a row and very close to our boat. We also encountered a pod of around 4 harbour porpoises which we could even follow and watch for a while. They were feeding, surfing the waves and milling and we all had a great look at them! Our last encounter of the tour was with a pod of 4-5 white-beaked dolphins. We were also able to watch them for a while whilst they were milling and fishing.
-Tena Sarcevic
Tour at 09:00
Report from Eldey: It looked pretty dreary out in the bay, with large dark rain clouds but thankfully we only got rained on lightly at the start. What a bitter wind though! We had only been going 20 minutes after our late departure when a passenger spotted our first minke whale, surfacing only 100 m from the boat. Unfortunately we could not relocate this individual after our close encounter but we didn´t need to worry as after 20 more minutes travelling we came across a second individual. This minke whale was much more predictable, keeping to the same path which meant that we could put the boat in the right place for when it resurfaced - it came up only 20 m from the boat! You could not get a better view of this often elusive species, so we continued out and found 2 pods of white-beaked dolphins. These animals were most likely feeding, often turning in circles and then surfacing quickly, and we even got a little head-slapping from one individual. A lovely two species tour in this bitter weather!
- Ophelie Humphrey
Status: RUNNING
We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik on a beautiful but cloudy day. Wind is coming from the North- Northeast and is 5-6m/s. There could be some movement on the boat out on Faxa Bay.
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