Tour status: RUNNING
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: A very nice start to Christmas Eve with an influx of passengers this afternoon, we were able to go out with a full boat. The sea conditions were also great, a huge difference from yesterday´s conditions that cancelled the tour. As we left the harbour a long line of great cormorants and european shags stood along the sea wall. It took us a while to see life and found an area in the bay where birds were more abundant and 2 pods of harbour porpoises could be found. At least 7-10 in total, they could be watched popping up from time to time, we tried our best to follow these little guys but they can be difficult at the best of times. We also got to see a nice array of seabirds; glaucous gulls, iceland gulls, black-backed gulls, common guillemots, snow buntings, little auk and a northern gannet. Alas, no larger cetaceans were encountered so we offered our passengers complimentary tickets to come again for free in the next two years. We arrived back at the harbour with a thin fresh layer of snow which ended the tour on a nice christmasy feel.
Merry Christmas/ Gleðileg jól/ Joyeux Noël/ Frohe Weihnachten/Feliz Navidad/God Jul/Wesołych Świąt/Buon Natale/
- Megan Whittaker
Bird species seen on today's tour include: northern gannet, common guillemot, cormorants, shags, glaucous gull, iceland gull, eider ducks, northern fulmar, little auk, snow buntings, black-backed gulls.
We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik today. There could be some movement on the boat out on Faxabay but we do offer seasickness tablets free of charge at the ticket office if you are sensitive to motion sickness. All our boats have inside and outside areas and to make the tour even more comfortable we provide warm overalls.
We look forward to welcome everyone on board, and wish everyone a merry christmas! Our ticket office will close at 2 pm today, but yopu can always contact us via email at elding@elding.is
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