Unfortunately due to weather we need to cancel the tours at 10am, 1pm, 2pm, 5pm and 8:30pm. Please stop by the office, send us an email (elding@elding.is) or call +354 519 5000 for more information.
Report from Elding: Once again we sailed from Grindavík on the south c
Unfortunately due to weather we need to cancel the tours at 10am, 2pm, 5pm and 8:30pm. Please stop by the office, send us an email (elding@elding.is) or call +354 519 5000 for more information.
Report from Elding: Again, we left from Grindavík. We had a delay caused by
Unfortunately due to unfavourable weather conditions in Faxaflói Bay we have cancelled the evening tour, Whales in the Midnight Sun.
Report from Elding: We left the harbour in Grindavík with high hopes - to find the orcas o humpback whales
Unfortunately due to unfavourable weather conditions we have cancelled the 20:30 tour today. Please call +354 519 5000 or send us an email via elding@elding.is for more information.
Unfortunately due to unfavourable weather conditions we have canc
Unfortunately the 13:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:30 tours have been cancelled due to unfavourable weather. If your require further information please email us at elding@elding.is, call us at +354 519 5000 or stop by our office.
Report from Elding: As we headed out there wa
Report from Hafsulan: We headed out into the bay with strong rain and some wind blowing fro
Report from Elding: The midnight tour was wonderful this evening with great on board musicians playing on the way back with the midnight sun behind us, 7-9 minke whales that were milling, traveling and feeding all around us, both close and in the distance. We even glimpsed a
Report from Elding: The midnight sun that day was simply spectacular. Blue skies and mild winds were the conditions we sailed out at into the Bay of Faxafloí. Already near the lighthouse Grótta the first Minke Whale surfaced three times until it disappeared from view. We mad
Report from Hafsúlan: We went out to the midnight tour in excellent weather, it was warm, sunny, and the sea as calm as it can ever get. After about 40 minutes sailing we spotted the first Minke Whale of the evening. It was calmly surfacing at the same area and sometimes com
Report from Elding: We went out for the midnight sun tour but the sky was completely covered with clouds but somehow some sunlight fell on Mount Esja and beside it was a round spot of a part of a rainbow visible. We left the harbour with the wind at our back heading into the
Report from Elding: The weather had really calmed down this evening, the sea was very flat and on the way out we couldn´t feel the wind. It was a very pleasant journey that could only be made better with whales. We first tried sailing south into an area we hadn´t explored ve
Report from Elding: this was a difficult tour. The south-eastern wind was always on the increase, causing uncomfortable boat movements. As to whales, they were there for sure but playing very difficult. Three or four times we saw big splashes, suggesting a a breaching whale,
Report from Elding: The day had been getting better and better, every tour improving upon the last. Though the last tour was excellent this one could still match it for quality. We were treated to perfect weather conditions, the sky (for the first time in a long time) was cl
Report from Elding: What a beautiful evening! We enjoyed a calm weather as we headed out this evening and soon, we found our first minke whale. It came up 4 or 5 times but then vanished. Oh well, we headed further and then manged to find about 3 minkes more that were spread
Report from Hafsúlan: It was a difficult tour this evening with the strong swell on the way out of the bay and the very elusive minke whales. We did encounter one minke whale though which surfaced twice, but very low so that you could barely see the whale, the waves didn´t r
Report from Elding: The weather this evening as we headed out was quite rough with some white capped waves and strong winds. Despite that we were quite confident as we headed out and began our search. We decided to go pretty far out to sea this time around and try our luck t
Report from Hafsúlan: we were only about half an hour out of the harbour when the first Minke Whale of approximately 4 popped up. All were very docile and easy to watch, blows were loud and reasonably clear, and one of them even interestingly popped its head rather high up i
The evening tour is unfortunately cancelled due to unfavourable weather. If your require further information please email us at elding@elding.is, call us at 519 5000 or drop down to us at the ticket office.
Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out this
Report from Hafsúlan: The ocean was smooth as a mirror as we headed out this evening. We had only sailed for a couple of minutes as we spotted our first Harbour porpoise out of 2-3 that we saw this tour. After about 30 minutes we spotted a Minke whale in the distance. The an
