Whale diary

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    Status Tour 17:00: CANCELLED

    Unfortunately we have to cancel our Whale Watching tour at 5pm today due to strong winds and unfavorable sea conditions.

    Tour at 13.00

    Report from Elding: On the tour, we experienced all the differen

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    Tour at 17:00: CANCELLED

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Elding; Departure from Keflavik with weather ranging from calm and sunny to hailing and windy. For most of the tour we were able to enjoy large flocks of northern gannets fe

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Elding: IF YOU DON´T LIKE THE WEATHER, WAIT 5 MINUTES. Another tour that teaches us the meaning of this icelandic joke: sun, hail, sun, snow, sun. Absolutely incredible the Icelandic interchangabl

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    Tour status 13:00 and 17:00: CANCELLED 

    Tour at 09:00: RUNNING

    Report from Elding: Winter has arrived once again with strong and cold North Westerly winds, snow and hail. As the boat climbed the swells on the way out we got a salty t

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    Tour Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13.00

    Report from Elding: The afternoon-tour faced the same challenges with the weather as the morning tour did. There where long swells, which gave us a rocky boat, but there was good visibility over the bay.

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    Tour at 13:00 : CANCELLED 

    Tour at 09:00

    Report from Eldey: The sea was looking good from the harbour, but as soon as we passed the walls, we were greeted by a strong gust of wind! It was blowing from the South, th

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The visibility over the bay was still good, but the wind had picked up. After sailing for about an hour 4-5 harbour porpoises showed up and they where easy to spot because

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The sky had cleared up, the sun was shining, and it certainly felt like summer out on the bay. The tour began with a brief sighting of 4 harbour porpoises close to Rey

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Elding: Where to start? We sailed out under pretty bad weather conditions. The visibility was bad and the rain made us soaking wet. None of this mattered after we returned to the docks after this

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Elding: In afternoon sea welcomed us with perfect conditions for sailing and spotting animals. It was perfectly flat and sky was overcast, at the end of the tour we had small rain but also amazing

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Elding: The afternoon tour started as the morning tour ended, overcast sky making it great conditions for spotting. Unfortunately, the further out we went we had more swells but

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    Status: RUNNING 

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Elding: What a wonderful weather we have had in our afternoon trip. The sun was shinning, we had incredible warm temperature (6°C!) and the sea state was very calm. Ideal conditions for whale wat

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    Tour Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00
    With the wind and the sea state calming down, it seemed like a nice continuation of today's whale watching. We sailed out about 45 minutes before we saw the first spout. A lone humpback whale

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Honest to God my best tour in 2018 so far! We sailed out with the sun and ended up passing under two rain clouds during our arrival to where the whales were... business as usual in Iceland.

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: What a morning! Still the sun was shining and with great expectations we sailed out into the bay. The plan was to head straight to the area where we left the humpbacks in the morning as we

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The weather was still good as in the morning, perfect conditions to search for some cetaceans. As we had some great success on our morning tour, we knew already where to start looking for them. On the way t

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Elding: The sailing was lovely this afternoon, not too much wind and calm sea. It was a bit drizzly through the tour, however, this just meant we could use our overalls to keep us nice and dry. It

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The wind picked down considerably during our afternoon trip, giving us the chance to sail over calm waters during the tour. It didn't take too much until we were able to have the first enco

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: With the sun shining everything is better and so is whale whatching. The wind was so strong while we were exiting the harbour that I had trouble keeping my balance. Lucki

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey:Although the wind had picked up a little since the morning tour we didn´t feel it as we sailed with the wind. On our way to the humpback whales we passed by at least 3 pods of harbou