Tuesday, 3 August 2021
✔ CLASSIC WHALE TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 09:00
✔ PREMIUM WHALE TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 10:00
Report from Þruma: Today the weather was still excellent with a little bit more movement than yesterday but still a very flat sea. It was cloudy but we had a very good visibility. After observing the puffins in an island near Reykjavik we first found a humpback whale pretty close to the harbour that was very sleepy, not moving that much. We could stay a while with it observing how it was surfacing. The we decided to move and we found a group of harbour porpoises. As usual there were cute but complicated to spot and disappeared quickly. We then found 7-8 white beaked dolphins that were clearly curious about the boat, coming very close, doing small jumps and bow riding. There was at least two calves in the group showing a lot of curiosity toward our boat. We left and found a second humpback whale, probably another that gave us a beautiful fluke dive.
- Miquel Pons
✔ CLASSIC WHALE TOUR ON SCHEDULE 13:00
Report from Eldey: Still a good weather even if we had a bit of rain in the very end. The sea was very calm so the sailing comfortable. We first headed a bit south, we found nothing so we went more north near Akranes. There we had a very interesting sighting ! We were not sure first but after a while observing it we concluded it was a fin whale, the second biggest animal on earth ! They are seen very rarely in the bay so we were excited about it ! We stayed a while with it, the animal was resting, surfacing very slowly. After this nice encounter we headed back home trying to look for something else but we could not spot any other specie.
- Miquel Pons
✔ PREMIUM WHALE TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 14:00
Report from Þruma: We left the harbour heading towards Engey where we took a close look of the puffins. The tide was high which allowed us to get pretty near the opening of the burrows where some of adult puffins where guarding the entrances. We decided to take a north route where we scanned the surface until we came across some white beaked dolphins. It was a group of 6-8 of them, including some mum and calves and few juveniles. We had a great look at them from the close distance, they were travelling and swimming mostly synchronize. We decided to head further out in the bay and we were lucky enough to find a humpback whale. The animal was very calm during the whole encounter so we could enjoy the gentle movement of the fluke each time it was going for longer dives.
- Alejandro Garcia
✔ CLASSIC MIDNIGHT WHALE TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 19:00
Report from Elding: This evenings tour was just perfect. It took us a very long time to find the whales but we enjoyed the mirror sea and the beautiful colourful sky and seabirds as we searched. When we eventually found the whales, we found three humpback whales, we saw that one of them was an individual we’ve seen loads this summer called Davy Jones. On the way home we enjoyed the company of two very friendly white-beaked dolphins that played around our boat and with the stillness of the water we could see them with such clarity, every little scratch and scar on their body as the swam next to us. The Atlantic puffins paddling by with their little feet also kept many of our passengers very amused. A perfect end to a wonderful day.
- Megan Whittaker
✔ PREMIUM WHALE TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 20:00
Report from Þruma: It felt like this evening tour would be nice. No wind or very little, flat sea, good visibility. We started with the puffins then went for bigger animals. We first spotted a group of 4-5 white brakes dolphins. There were not coming very close and were being elusive in the beginning. But after a while they came to play with us as more dolphins were appearing at the distance. We had a magical moment with then and went for bigger cetaceans. We found 1, 2 and then 3 humpback whales that were in the same area. Sometimes calmly surfacing, sometimes fluke diving, sometimes lunge feeding it was amazing to observe them. We recognize that one was Davy Jones, a well known individual from this season, but we went mainly with another one that looked bigger and stayed with it until we had to go back to the harbour.
- Miquel Pons
Bird Species ID´d today: Northern Gannet, Atlantic Puffin, Common Guillemot, Arctic tern, Arctic skua, Northern Fulmar, Kittiwake, Red-Necked Phalarope, Eider Duck, great-black backed gull, lesser black-backed gull, herring gull.
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