wednesday, 27 July 2022

Today we will be operating on Þruma RIB for our 10:00, 14:00 and 16:00 Premium Whale tours and on our lovely vessel Eldey for the 09:00, 10:00, 14:00 and 20:30 Classic Whale Watching tours. Make sure to dress appropriately for the tours as it is always colder on sea than on land.

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 10:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 10:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 14:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 14:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 16:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 17:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 20:30

COVID-19: Keep in mind that passengers and crew are asked to ensure their own hygiene and safety at all times. Washing hands thoroughly with soap and using a hand sanitizer is advised. Masks are not mandatory but are recommended in areas where keeping distance from others is not possible.

Report from Eldey: The sea and weather were not in a whale watching mood this mornihng. It was rainy, windy and we had some swell, but this did not stop us from going on an adventure. After sailing across the bay for some time we spotted a big splash in the distance, a breaching humpback whale! We made our way there and while waiting for this magnificent creature to come up again we spotted another whale species, a minke whale. This one was following a flock of birds in hopes of some jummy fish. Shortly after that some white-beaked dolphins (pod of 5-7) approached our boat and started to bow ride to all of our joy! As the cherry on top of it all the humpback breached again one last time for us in the wavy and foamy seas. What a crazy tour, always expect the unexpected!

- Cindy Schwenk

Report from Elding: Under light rain but strong winds we embarked through the haze to find some whales and dolphins. We headed in the direction of a reported humpback whale that was breaching, however upon arriving it had already left. So following some birds to see if they would lead us to some animals we found a minke whale passing the front of our vessel, surfacing 3 times before disappearing under the waves. Riding with the waves to keep the boat steady we began to head in a line and see if we could find anything else, however aside from some wonderful birds like the northern gannet, manx shearwaters, northern fulmers and of course puffins, we eventually had to head back to port.

- Liam van Walsum

Report from Eldey: The swell and weather were against us but we still decided to look for some fabulous whales! A hungry minke whale surprised us by lunge feeding on the surface. Later on it was still looking for food and it continued lunge feeding. What a show. All in a sudden a blow could be seen in the distance. As we approached we check out and saw that it was another minke whale. It looked as if it was travelling. The seabirds were escorting us during in this tour and we saw a lot of interesting birds too.

- Liam van Walsum

Report from Eldey: Hoping to find the minke whales again that we had seen in the morning, we headed towards the same area on our search for cetaceans. We only had a fast sighting of a minke whale, that did not show up again, but we were rewarded with 6 white-beaked dolphins. Some of them were jumping out of the water! and later on they were feeding together with many species of sea birds around. They changed their directions constantly, but they stayed close to our boat, so all of our passengers had the chance to see them. Additionally, we spotted many northern gannets plunging into the sea, and some of them with intense blue eye colour and a dark head with a white collar and some with brown patches on its wings, those were immature individuals, but we could also see adults one's. Overall a very good and unforgettable tour.

- Estel Sanchez

Northern Gannet, black-legged kittiwake, common guillemot, black guillemot, Atlantic puffins, Arctic skua, manx shearwater, sooty shearwater, greater and lesser black-backed gull, Arctic tern, storm petrel, herring gull, Iceland gull