Wednesday, 6 December 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

Report from Eldey: The choppy seas and the cold winds coming from the East didn't stop us from going on a adventure today! The sun was slowly rising, creating this beautiful pink pattern at the sky. The visibility was also incredible and we were able to see the whole snowy Snæfellness Peninsula during the whole tour. Right after we passed the islands of Engey and Akurey, we spotted small splashes on the water, giving out the location of 2 harbour porpoises passing by. As we continued our way, we got to an area with many seabirds, and we could spot not 1, not 2 but 6 blows!! We had at 5 to 6 humpback whales in the area, with 2 closer to us and the others a bit further away. These whales were all busy feeding, with short deep dives, coming to the surface quickly to lunge feed and take a breath! One of them sticked around with us, and we could have amazing looks of this individual from both sides of the boat, several times. What an amazing sighting! It showed off its fluke, its snout, the hump... Until we realized we needed to slowly leave these animals because we were running out of time. So we started sailing back home we big smiles and admiring the start of the sunset on the mountains of the Reykjanes peninsula.

- Pedro Teixeira

Great black-backed gull, herring gull, Icelandic gull, razorbill, great cormorant. eider duck, mallard, black-headed gull