Tour status: RUNNING
Tour at 17:00
Report from Eldey: The rain that accompanied us for a good part of the first part of our trip and the distance from the sightings were all good ingredients to make everyone on board a bit blue. But just as we started to worry that the animals have shifted far away in comparison to the previous tour, a trace of hope. We saw the white-beaked dolphins! Spent some amazing time with them. We saw the minke whales! Spent a lovely time with these guys. We were running out of time and thought this was it for this tour, but no. The humpback whale from the previous tour was still around. This time we saw it lunge feeding, showing us it's flippers while turning around and just generally behaving in a way that makes even the guides go speechless. At the end we saw jumping dolphins and a few shy harbour porpoises. This trip proves as an example of how patience is the key to whale watching and how unpredictable nature is.
-Lucas Heinrich
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: We are so used to the fact that sun and rain are interchanging on an hourly basis, that we welcome these as our own dear constants at sea. This tour was no different. Luckily the calm sea made for a wonderful experience. We saw more less everything this bay has to offer when it comes to cetacean species. We had a delightful encounter with 2 minke whales that came close to the boat. The two pods of white-beaked dolphins were in a mood for playing with the boat, which by the gasps of excited passengers I took as a sign that everyone was having a good time. The big deal decided to show up a little bit later. A single juvenile humpback whale was obviously busy feeding and we were lucky there was plenty of food on the surface, so the whale didn't dive deep or for a long time. Thank you Faxi Bay!
-Lucas Heinrich
Tour at 9:00
Report from Eldey: We left the Reykjavik harbour today under ideal weather conditions. It was sunny and the water was almost perfectly flat. After barely half an hour of sailing, we encountered a pod of at least four white-beaked dolphins! We stopped for a short while as the dolphins surfaced frequently around the boat, and then continued on our way to our main sighting grounds, as we were still very close to land. On our way there, we had another encounter with a pod of 6-7 white-beaked dolphins. When they were about 100 meters away from us, we saw two of them jumping. One of the dolphins in that pod was a celebrity to us, been seen for several years, named 'Sophie'. Again, the dolphins approached us very closely, and a few of them went under the boat and resurfaced on the other side. We eventually made our way back to the harbour, after quickly sighting a harbour porpoise. The porpoise was elusive so we left it alone. We reached Reykjavik in beautiful weather and still water, happy to have experienced such an incredible, close-up sight of the dolphins!
-Anne Moullier
Bird species seen on today's tours include: northern gannet, Atlantic puffin, lesser black backed gull, northern gannet, common guillemot, black-legged kittiwake
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