Monday, 28 October 2024

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 13:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 10:00, 13:00, 15:00

Report from Eldey: Sailing out this morning, cold wind and rain announced a difficult tour in terms of spotting, but we knew from previous days that we would find good things to say. Further outwards, we first came upon a minke whale, quite elusive and very quickly going away from us. As we understood we couldn't really follow this individual, we spotted further away a couple of  blows: we struck our luck, as it was a humpback whale, one that we had seen previously during the summer. With long deep dives, this whale stayed with us throughout the tour, staying often over 8 minutes under the water, making each one of its surfacing and fluke dives a warmly welcomed event. On last dive quite close to us marked our moment to leave, with all on the boat having been able to enjoy the sighting of this great animal. 

- Alex Paumier

Report from Eldey: With the wind, rain and hail coming top surprise us, we still sailed out into Faxafloi bay this afternoon, this time going across the South coastline. We were told that some whales had been seen from the land, close to Hafnafjörður's harbor, which is where we headed. We first spotted an elusive minke whale, coming up and down the surface very fast. But suddenly, a huge blow came across the heavy wind: a very large humpback whale came to the surface. Hoping to get closer, we approached it but it fluke dived to go deep down further, staying underwater over 20 minutes. We luckily got to see it several times, quite close to us, for all to see it completely, but it was indeed a slow giant, going for long dives. We headed back home, with both wind and rain continuously picking up, happy that we managed to bring such good sightings on this hard afternoon. 

- Maria "The Machine" Ernesto

Icelandic gull, glaucous gull, sooty shearwater, Northern fulmar, common guillemot, razorbill