Sunday, 10 March 2024

Today we will be operating on our lovely vessel Eldey for the 9:00 and 13:00 Classic Whale Watching tour. Make sure to dress according to weather, as it is usually colder at sea than on land.

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 9:00, 13:00

Report from Eldey: Today we had the taste of a summer weather, reminding us that winter is almost coming to an end. The sun was shining during the whole time, the skies were clear and blue and the waves were super calm, not even breaking! Right after we left the harbour, we sailed out for a couple of minutes before we spotted easily a big blow in the distance! The wind was super weak so the blow didn't move much, helping us to track this humpback whale, and a specific one: Frodo! As always, this one was active and fast, sometimes getting the food from the side and showing a beautiful pectoral fin in the air. There was a lot of food in the area, as Frodo was choosing where to go, far, close, going to different spots in a couple of seconds. As we decided to sail out to see what else the bay had to offer, we watched the mountains around us, and we could really feel some summer vibes. The sun continued to shine, the wind was weak, and it was a nice ride at a calm sea. Coming back to see Frodo for a couple more times, we were amazed by the fact that it was coming so close, and even a bit stinky after feeding. After taking a deep breath to enjoy the most of nature, we started our jouney back to Reykjavik, feeling the sunshine on our faces!

- Milla Brandao

Report from Eldey: Sunny day, sea like a lake, mild wind, all perfect conditions for an amazing whale-watching tour. We started close to shore as we've doing for the past few days and there we saw a blow! It was a humpback whale, a known one, Frodo! It was doing whaly things like fluke diving, lunge feeding and rolling! Showing the underside, lots of splashes, and just before that the fish jumped in fear of being eaten by the beast. We saw this behaviour several times and then we did a sail a bit further into the bay. We could see the amazing Icelandic landscape, the still snowy mountains of Snaefellness and the outline of the Reykjanes peninsula. We did see loads of northern fulmars flying around, but nothing popped up. We decided to go a bit closer to land again and we found Frodo again. It was doing more amazing rollings and coming even closer to us. Always erratic but always spectacular! We came back to the harbour safe and sound.

- Pedro Teixeira

Northern fulmar, great black-backed gull, lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, raven, great cormorant, red-breasted mergansant, greylag geese, Icelandic gull, european shag, eider duck, black guillemot, razorbill