Tour at 17:00
Report from Elding: The wind was still blowing when we were sailing out this afternoon, but the sun decided to stay with us for the first 40 minutes of the trip. All around us heavy rain clouds had started to make their way closer to us, however the mix between rain and sun resulted in quite a few very colorful rainbows. So we had the opportunity to take fantastic photos of Faxa bay and its surroundings. After more than an hour of sailing we spotted our first minke whale, overall we saw at least 6 individuals on this tour. All of them seemed to be feeding and moved around rather quickly so that we often only saw each individual a few times, but the number of minkes made up for that. At the end we spent a bit less than an hour with the minkes before it was time for us to head back to Reykjavik. A nice tour full of rainbows.
- Barbara Neubarth
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: During this tour, after almost an hour, we encountered 3 minke whales, all in the same area. Although all passengers saw them, these three individuals were not easy to observe as they were surfacing only two times in a row and diving longer dives (of 8-10 minutes long). However, while waiting minkes to surface from their dives, we were not bored as we were enjoying in watching impressive northern gannets plunge diving while fishing. On our way back we were lucky to see 2 white-beaked dolphins coming straight toward us. They were checking us out, coming very close to our boat, so we could watch them nicely. When it seemed they left us, we continued heading back to the port and on the way spotted another individual of white-beaked dolphin, which jumped on its back about 10 times in a row before we lost a sight of it.
The weather during this tour was very changeable. We had light rain few times during the tour as well as sun and multiple gorgeous rainbows which made the landscape look even more beautiful.
-Tena Sarcevic
Tour at 09:00
Report from Eldey: We sailed out in Faxa bay, fearing that the wind would be fiery blowing as yesterday, but the conditions had improved notably, and the spotting of the wildlife was, thus, easier. After 40 minutes of sailing we had our first encounter: a large pod of 13-15 white-beaked dolphins. The first thing we saw were a few of them jumping out of the water, towards the direction of a huge flock of northern gannets that were feeding on an area. We stood with this extremely beautiful dolphins for a few minutes and then we tried to spot some other species. Unfortunately we only managed to see one lost blow fading away, so we started to head back. Almost at the end of our trip we saw a small pod of 3-4 harbour porpoises. Beautiful way to end this first tour of the day!
- Alberto Alejandro
Bird species seen on today's tours include: eider duck, common guillemot, northern gannet, northern fulmar, Manx shearwater, sooty shearwater, arctic skua,black-legged kittiwake, black-headed gull, greater black-backed gull and lesser black-backed gull.
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