TUESDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 2018

Tour 13:00

Report from Eldey: for third consecutive day we sailed through calm seas and Faxafloi seemed to wear her very best dress for the occasion. Landscape was simply beautiful, the sun reflected its powerful rays in the top of the mountain in which seemed to be a fantasy. Unfortunately, wildlife was prove to be more evasive. The first cetacean we spotted was a minke whale which wasn't´t in its best mood as we saw it just few times so we continued our trip. After more than one hour of fruitless hunt, we started to head back to Reykjavik totally desolate. However, patience always rewards and Ægir (the Poseidon of the Norse mythology) decided to give us an anticipated Christmas gift. Our passengers started to scream "there is something behind!" and we couldn't´t believed what are eyes were seeing, a pod of 5-6 Orcas or Killer Whales was there!! First we saw the huge dorsal fin of the male (2 m) and later the rest of the pod, including a tiny calf among them. They were so kind that they were swimming just under our boat so we had the feeling that eye contact human-orca was more than real. After this, we were speechless and we returned to Reyjkavik with our hearths fulfilled with happiness and joy.

-Rodrigo A. Martinez Catalan

Tour at 9:00

Report from Eldey: Do you know the feeling when it´s dark and cloudy in the morning and you don´t want to leave bed? We don´t! Everything was sleepy: Reykjavik behind us, passengers and even birds were flying in slow-motion but cold breeze fast woke up us. We went back to same place where yesterday we were lucky and fast we found a minke whale. First it was very difficult to find it but we didn´t give up and whale just came up 20m next to our starboard side. It was quite strange that our minke was appearing constantly in spots very far one from another and we start to suspect that we had two of them. It was confirmed when other boat was staying with one whale and another surfaced again right next to us. To keep with this minkes was a challenge but having such a close encounters was a fair price to pay.

- Ewa Malinowska 

Birds seen during our tours: eider duck, european cormorant, great shag, glaucous gull, iceland gull, great black-backed gull, razorbill, black guillemot, common guillemmot, northern fulmar, northern gannet.