Whale diary

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: After such a nice tour this morning, we left the harbour in high spirit, eager to see more. It was not as sunny as on the previous tour, but still the temperature was nice, we had good visibility and the scenery was

Status: CANCELLED  at 13:00

Do to unfavourable weather conditions, the 13:00 tour has been CANCELLED today. For more information, please contact our ticket office at elding@elding.is or +354 519 5000

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Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: On this foggy day we sailed straight out to the area that we left the humpbacks on the morning tour. We were so happy to see that the humpback whales were still in that same area just about 20 minutes from the

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Because of the winds we experienced on the morning tour we were expecting some swells but the sun really warmed everybody up on the way out. We had an amazing morning tour so we were excited to get out again. We headed straight out to th

Status: CANCELLED

Due to unfavourable conditions, our tours today (9:00 & 13:00) have been cancelled. Please contact us directly via elding@elding.is or +354 519 5000 for more information.

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It was still an overcast sky and some light rain when we left the harbour on the afternoon tour. We still had swells from the west and the boat rocked, it caused green-faces onboard. For the ones that stayed outside the overalls came to

Status: RUNNING

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The weather only got better, unfortunately clouds were coming in and the skies became overcast but sun glasses still came in use with a strong glare on the water. The sea was like a mirror, whic

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: What an afternoon, sun was out and very strong. I think ony 10 out of 122 passengers made use of the floatation suits we offer on board to keep warm. Also the swell had calmed down but holding on to the rails was important still as boat

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The afternoon was still fairly warm but now it had clouded over completely but we still had a beautifully calm sea. After sailing for only 15 minutes our first species was spotted, a pod of 8 white beaked dolphin. A

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey and Elding: Due to a large number of passengers we decided to take out two boats this afternoon. We headed out on a beautiful warm and sunny day. After a short sail we spotted a pod of 3-4 harbour porpoises, we didn´t sto

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: This was another amazing day out on the bay! Our first sighting was early on the tour with 3 white beaked dolphins. They traveled slowly in an area close to Reykjavík and while we followed them we spotted two other pods

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It was even warmer than on the morning tour. On this tour we got great sightings of 6-7 minke whales! We had to sail far out to find the first minke whales. We came to an area with 3 minke whales, we followed one of them

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The summer weather continued on the afternoon tour and we all could work on our Icelandic tan throughout the tour. The sea also remained flat so spotting was easy. On this tour we headed to our normal whale watching area in the middle of

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It had stopped raining but the wind was even getting stronger so it made it much easier to be able to sail out from Hafnarfjörður in stead of Reykjavík. It took us only 20 minutes until we spotted the first humpback whale

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It was much windier in the afternoon than on morning tour. Fortunately for us the find was coming from south east so we got good shelter from land in our main sighting area these days. It didnt take us long to spot our first blow of a

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: This afternoon we again headed towards the area outside of Hafnarfjörður to see the humpback whales. The sun had almost disappeared but the sea conditions were still great. It took a bit more than one hour to reach the a

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Compared to the morning tour, it was a lot windier and less sunny than in the morning. So it was good that we returned to the area outside of Hafnarfjörður where we had been earlier and where we got shelter from land. It took a whil

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The magical weather continued in the afternoon with feelings of summer when we headed out from the harbor. When we got closer to the area where we have had good success the last week we could soon see big blows from the whales! The

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The weather didn't change much from the morning so we still had perfect conditions for whale watching. After a short time we spotted blows far north in the bay and noticed 2-3 white beaked dolphins that had popped up rig

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan and Eldey: The weather got a little worse this afternoon but the sea state stayed calm. Just a little more wind and rain. We traveled towards Hafnafjörður, about a 50 minute sail and saw our first of five humpback whales