Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: Heading out of the harbour we took a rather unusual direction. Rather than aiming for the wide bay, we directed our boat towards the island Videy. For three days now we have been enjoying a, seemingly young, humpback whale that seems to feel comfortable near the shallow coast of the island. We saw it's blow just 15 minutes after leaving port. As we approached it, it kept on skim feeding close to the water surface. Thus, we often saw nearly all of it's body and within less than 50 meters from the boat. The humpback really didn't mind us around at all, even rolled on the side twice, letting us get a glimpse at the tip of it's fluke, to feed on the fish in very shallow waters. Everyone thoroughly appreciated how trusting this humpback was. Nevertheless we left the humpback after an hour of staying and enjoying to let it do it's thing and instead try our chances of finding more wildlife of Faxafloi. The sun coming cracking through the clouds made the landscape around us beautiful and there were many sea birds accompanying us. Winds definitely picked up from the morning, but for end November it was still warm. Although we didn't encounter any further cetaceans I believe everyone was still awestruck by this close encounter with a humpback whale.
- Sabrina Voswinkel
Tour at 09:00
Report from Eldey: After seeing a humpback whale so close to the island of Videy last night on our Imagine Peace Tour, we decided to take a look if it was still there. We circled around the island and saw nothing. We were on our way out when our head guide Megan saw it behind us, a mile away. We turned back and had an amazing morning encounter with this beautiful animal. It was ridiculously close to the shore, so we couldn't get any closer to the island if we didn't want to risk getting stranded. We left it to eat in peace. After making a circle around the broader area we returned to harbour full of cold, but exquisite memories.
-Lucas Heinrich
Bird species seen on todays tours: eider duck, glaucouse gull, lesser black-backed gull, iceland gull, razorbil, common guillemot, great cormorant, black headed gulls, blacked-legged kittiwake.
Tour status: Running
We are sailing today from the Old Harbour in Reykjavík at 9am and 1pm. If you need any information please feel free to contact us by calling +354-519-5000, sending an e-mail to elding@elding.is or simply by dropping by our tickets office!
