Thursday, 22 November 2012

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: After rough last few days we were finally out on sea again in beautiful weather and calm sea. We sailed out from Hafnarfjörður but ended our tour in Reykjavík so on the tour we searched over a big area. After a little while we spotted in the distance a very big flock of seabirds, Glaucous Gulls, Blacked Back, Kittiwakes, Fulmars and Guillemots. On our sailing over there we saw what seemed to be one Harbour Porpoise straight in front of us, then swimming along the boat before it disappered again. That did not matter because only few minutes after that we saw jumping White Beaked dolphins! This turned out to be playful and curious dolphins, swimming time after time under our boat and jumping clean out of the water few times. Once the whole pod even came swimming under our vessel and we could clearly see their bodies just under the surface.   We spent a long time with them and got a good a very good look at these beautiful animals. On our way back we enjoyed the view of the snowy mountains and we even saw a little rainbow in the middle of Hvalfjörður!