Status Tour 1pm: RUNNING FROM ANOTHER HARBOUR
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: Due to northerly winds, sea conditions were not looking too great in the bay. Thus we departed from the harbour of Grindavik, hoping for a shelter from Reykjanes. While strong gusts of wind were still blowing on us to freeze to the core of our bones, we did have an excellent sea to sail on. Visibility was great too, we had the sun setting on the open oceans, so it was a won bet! Sadly no satisfactory whale watching for this tour, we did find a pod of 6-8 white-beaked dolphins that leaped out of the water, but they didn't bother to stay more than few seconds with us. We handed over complimentary tickets for this reason. Let's hope tomorrow brings more luck!
- Guillaume Calcagni
Bird species seen on today's tour include: eider duck, great black-backed gull, great cormorant, icelandic gull and glaucous gull
We will be sailing out from GRINDAVÍK today due to unfavourable conditions out of Reykjavík. A bus will be ready and waiting for passengers here in the Old Harbour and drive off to Grindavík at the scheduled departure time.
This will result in a longer tour, or around 5 hrs in total and could impact COMBO tours. Guests that are unable to join the tour because of it's length should contact their travel planner immediately to arrange for a different activity or check for other options provided by them.
We are expecting the sea conditions to be quite rough today, so we do provide seasickness tablets at our ticket office, free of charge!
For more information please contact us by email elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000.
Status Tour 9am: CANCELLED
Due to bad weather conditions, we do have to cancel the Whale Watching tour at 9 am this morning. The tour at 1 pm will be announced as soon as possible. For more information please contact us by email elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000.
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