Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The weather is really spoiling us here at the moment in Reykjavik, another day with bright blue sky and calm seas. Although the temperatures had dropped below the freezing point, we wrapped ourselves in one of our warm overalls and could

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The conditions continued to be almost perfect this afternoon. Even though the wind had picked up a little bit, the sea remained calm so that we could enjoy sailing to the fullest. Right at the beginning we saw 2-3 harbour porpois

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    Status: RUNNING

    We are sailing from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik on a calm beautiful day. There could be some movement on the boat out in Faxabay and it is probably cold too but we have heated indoor areas on board and we also have overalls to keep you warm out on

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey & Hafsulan: Active morning for Elding today, as a snowfall record in Reykjavik dressed all of our boats in a thick layer of powdery snow! Receiving many guests, we had to shovel our two main ferries, the way to the whale watching cent

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    Tour at 9 am and 1 pm: CANCELLED

    Due to bad weather conditions, we have to cancel the tour at 9 am today. For further questions or to reschedule please don't hesitate to contact our ticket office by phone +354 519 5000 or by e-mail elding@elding.is. 

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    Status at 9am and 13:00: CANCELLED

    Unfortunately all of our Whale Watching tours today have been cancelled due to a bad storm and therefore unfavorable sea conditions. For further questions or to reschedule please don't hesitate to contact our ticket office by phon

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey & Hafsulan: Due to the high number of passengers we went out with two boats on our afternoon tour. The long swells out at sea gave us quite  a roller coaster ride today that not everyone enjoyed. In the very beginning a few

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Our afternoon tour started with lot of snow falling down on us as we left the Harbour. Winter is finally here, let's hope it stays for a while. With the strong winds in our backs we sailed out again and headed for the area where the mink

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    Status at 1pm: CANCELLED

    Status at 9:00: CANCELLED 

    Our Whale Watching tour today at 9am has unfortunately been cancelled due to unfavorable weather and sea conditions. For further questions or to reschedule please contact our t

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    Status at 13:00: CANCELLED 

    Our Whale Watching tour today at 1pm has unfortunately been cancelled due to unfavorable weather and sea conditions. For further questions or to reschedule please contact our ticket office by phone +354 519 5000 or by email elding@e

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Have you seen the movie The Mist ? Well, our afternoon tour had the same kind of eerie atmosphere, except instead of scary monsters there was nice cetaceans lurking in the fog surrounding us. Actually at the beginning of the tour we reac

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey & Elding: Due to the high number of passengers booked for our 1 pm tour, we went out with two boats. The se conditions this afternoon were even more perfect than this morning, the sea flat like a mirror. Elding left the harbour first

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: After a successful morning tour we headed back out and searched in the same area where we had left the dolphins. We took a few circles there and just when we moved on, we saw a few leaping dolphins in a few hundred meters distance in fro

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    Status: RUNNING

    We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik on this beautiful and calm day. We are looking forward to welcoming you to our tour! 

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: What a tour! Words cannot expr

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    Status: RUNNING

    We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik today. There is little to no wind but there could be some movement on the boat out on Faxabay. If you are sensitive to motion sickness we do offer preventative tablets in the ticket office, f

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey and Hafsulan: What a thrilling tour! And for our very first time not just only because of the amazing wildlife. We sailed out today with two boats, with incredible spotting conditions but a tedious light rain that was pouring incessantly.

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: At the beginning of our afternoon tour conditions remained mostly unchanged, with maybe slightly less swell but still our passengers were treated with serious rolling. Most of our sailing happened under weak wind and a little bit of sun,

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Large swells and quite some wind from the south was expected in the afternoon and we prepared ourselves with warm overalls and seasickness tablets that we give out on our boats for free. The weather was a mix of overcast, some light rain

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: We were sailing out this afternoon from Hafnarfjördur where we had ended our morning tour. A strong wind was expected to blow from the south so this way we were hoping for a bit more sailing comfort with the wind in our back. It turned o

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: What a great dolphin day we had today out in Faxafloi. Especially this afternoon we could enjoy the presence of 3 different pods of white-beaked dolphins! But let's start from the beginning; we were sailing out under a s