Whale diary

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Report from Eldey: Once again it was beautiful day on the bay, sun shining, mountains with a fresh layer of snow and the sunset at the end of the tour was breath-taking. We searched a large area of the bay and saw quite a few clusters of feeding of seabird

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: A snowy beginning to our tour as the passengers made their way to the whale watching centre, a converted capelin fishing boat that now acts as our gift shop/cafe/museum and waiting area. Passengers enjoyed the information boards and Stev

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Even though this was a windy day it felt pleasant on the bay, the swell was not so high and the wind felt a little warmer than last few days. We saw quite a lot of bird life on the tour, mainly iceland gulls, fulmars and big flocks of ei

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: We made our way out from Reykjavík today accompanied by some light rainfall a bit of sunshine as well. We had to go far offshore today, but then finally we saw the first pod of 4-5 white-beaked dolphins. They suddenly st

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey and Elding: A beautiful day to wake up too and be out on the bay on. Skies were blue, sun was shining and a fresh covering of snow on the mountains. The beautiful day brought an influx of passengers to our doorsteps, so many that we had t

Tour at 09:00

Report from Eldey: We go a lot of rain, wind and white beaked dolphins today. The first dolphins of the tour were very close to land so we had only sailed for a little more than 20 minutes when we spotted them. They were scattered over a b

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: We has south westerly winds on today´s tour so we decided to depart from Keflavik to make the tour more comfortable for our passengers. If we departed from Reykjavik we would have has strong, cold winds for the majority of the tour and m

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The weather was actually very good today with only weak winds from the east and a cloudy sky. That meant good sailing and cetacean spotting conditions. We started with a very good harbour porpoise encounter, 6-8 individu

Unfortunately we have to cancel our whale watching tour today due to heavy winds at sea. Please contact our ticket office for further information, 003545195000 or elding@elding.is

All the best, the Elding team

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It was a beautiful but cold afternoon on the bay. Easterly winds meant that we felt the most of it on the way home. Plenty types of birds joined us on our tour including numerous sooty shearwaters, a lot more we have seen this year to pr

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It was rather windy today and the well high which rocked the boat up and down on our way out on the bay. We found big flocks of birds far out on the bay but we never found any cetaceans around the birds. On our way back to Reykjavík we f

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey:We sailed out from Reykjavík's Old Harbour on this windy morning, and encountered many white caps and a bit of swell out in the bay. We headed west towards our main sighting areas and then further south to get some protection from land. E

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: We were expecting strong winds on the tour but luckily for us the wind did not pick up until towards the end. For most all the tour we sailed on calm sea in perfect conditions for spotting cetaceans. After only about 30 minutes we spotte

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The weather could not be better, the wind had calmed down, skies where blue and the visibility, phenomenal. It was the perfect day to be out on see on a cold but gorgeous winters day. We sailed for about 40 minutes before we saw the firs

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey:The wind was much stronger on this tour and it rained a lot on us for the first half hour of the tour. We traveled over very lively areas with big flocks of birds but no cetaceans were to be seen. Finally after about 2 hours our first mat

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: We had high hopes for this tour as the morning was so good. We journeyed out to the area we saw the minke whales this morning, about an hour sailing away. After about 40 minutes passengers at the back of the boat saw something so we turn

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The weather forecast was a little mis leading today as it said it was going to calm down and yet the wind increased. Still it was quite comfortable, at least on the way offshore. We went straight to the same area as in the morning and wa

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The wind was picking up but the sea conditions were great until the very end of the tour when the swell was getting a bit higher. Although it rained on us the whole tour we kept optimistic for finding animals because of our great tour th

Tour at 13:00

Report from Elding and Eldey: because of high number of passengers we went out on two boats this afternoon. The wind was picking up but the sea conditions were still good. Eldey went further out on the bay to search for animals than Elding. Elding was the

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Strong winds from the north means bitterly cold at sea. We made very good use of the overalls we offer all passengers on this tour. Like this morning we struggled to find any cetaceans on this tour. We sailed for a long time searching, o