Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Today we will be operating on our lovely vessel Eldey for the 13:00 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 | 13:00

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 sanitiser is advised.  

Report from Eldey: After a couple days of bad weather and cancelled tours we got to head out back into the bay. It was a lovely day with little wind (mostly) and a positive temperature! I can't remember the last time that happened. It wasn't even too long before we saw some wildlife as 3 seals appeared within a few hundred metres of the boat. Unfortunately they were too far to identify the species. As we looked at these another boat close to us had spotted a humpback whale. We got to see this amazing animal for a while. We saw some beautiful surfaces so we go to appreciate it lots. The whale also showed us it's fluke many times which was great to see. This gave us the chance to recognise it as the same individual we have seen many times over the last month or two. There was generally only about 2-3 minutes dives each time meaning we got to see the individual, Flak, lots. We then headed out further to see if we could see anything else but unfortunately we didn't. On our way back to the harbour we got to see the humpback for a little longer. This brought a really nice tour to a really nice end.

- Rob Hyman

Common and black guillemot, eider duck, black backed gull, glaucous gull, great cormorant, European shag and black headed gull.