Whale diary

Tours at 9:00, 13:00 and 17:00

Due to rough conditions at sea, all tours today have been cancelled. Please contact our ticket office for further details / elding@elding.is or +354 519 5000

Tour at 17:00

Unfortunately due to increasing wind the tour has been cancelled. Please contact our office for more information +354 519 5000 or elding@elding.is

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: We decided to sail closer to Reykjanes

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: Same weather conditions as earlier today. We sailed more south in the beginning of this tour. We had been sailing for a while before we spotted some very elusive white-beaked dolphins. 2-3 dolphins just traveled by us

Tour at 17:00

Report from Eldey: We sailed out from Hafnarfjörður again but this time ended our tour in Reykjavik. While sailing out on the bay we headed into the swells so our boat was rocking up and down. It was also raining in the beginning of the tour which made it

Tour at 17:00

Report from Eldey: The calmness continued under the evening tour, amazing to see the sea so flat with only some rolling swells from yesterday's wind. The overcast sky gave good conditions for spotting cetaceans. We started off with some playful whi

Tour at 17:00

Report from Eldey: Still some western wind and high swells when we headed out for the evening tour. A mist lowered the visibility to only a couple of hundred meters close to the coast. When we got further out it luckily cleared and we could start searching

Tour at 17:00

Report from Eldey: We sailed for about half an hour before we saw a pod of 8-9 white beaked dolphins. They were swimming slowly around our boat so it was easy for everyone to follow their movement. We only spent about ten minutes with the

Tour at 17:00

Tour from Elding: With amazing conditions we made our way out. There was zero wind and no swell. So we were really optimistic and for good reason because only 15 minutes in to our trip we had a pod of 10 white beaked dolphins just lazing a

Tour at 17:00

Report from Eldey: In the evening tour the weather was still considerably good, but it obviously worsened during the day. We traveled west straight away, looking for the high amounts of animals found during the day. After a short trip into the bay we encou

Tour at 17:00

Report from Eldey: the sea conditions were still good but now we had a long rolling swell that rocked our boat a little bit. We didn't need to travel for a long time before finding our first cetaceans, a minke whale. It was easy to follow

Tour at 17:00

Report from Eldey: Cold and rocky could be the main words used to describe this tour. Even if we had some sunlight and excellent visibility, a strong and freezing wind was coming to us from North-East. Still we left Reykjavik in excellent mood, hoping for

Unfortunately due to rough conditions at sea, all our whale watching tours have been cancelled today! Please contact our ticket office for further information +354 519 5000.

Tour at 17:00

Report from Elding: We decided to make a try to find "Þröstur" the humpback whale that our boat Eldey had rediscovered on the tour at 14:00. So we headed out into the swells again for the third time today. It was bumpy and rocky but t

Tour at 17:00

Report from Eldey: The weather was rough, but passengers were warned to the best of our abilities offering free seasickness tablets and overalls but they were an adventurous lot and it did not deter them. We went out in search of Þröstur and spotted a

Tour at 17:00

Report from Eldey: On our last tour of the day we decided to go straight out west to the humpback whale Þröstur that has been staying in the Faxaflói bay. As on the other tours, we found it rather quick after we reached it's estimated loca

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: The weather could not get any better than tonight and with the flat sea it was easy to spot animals on the tour even from a long distance. Our tour started with the pod of PILOT WHALES that Elding had already seen on

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: Heading out to the bay we realized we soon had the best conditions of the day. The sea was completely flat, with no wind. We headed straight to the humpback whale we knew was in the bay. About 30mins in to our tour we had a pod of 5

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: After this very amazing morning and afternoon tour we decided to head straight out to the area where the pilot whales were spotted last. On our way we were very fortunate, encountering 3 minke whales after another. Fo

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: Clearly we were lucky with the sea conditions on this tour. Wind was still blowing al little bit when we left Reykjavik, but we sailed on an almost mirror-sea, and with nice lights and colors in the landscape. Some light was shining t

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsulan: The clouds were threathening rain again but like all today´s tours it stayed dry. The seas were choppy, more white caps than the tours before but all in all it was not bad and as we approached Reykjavik the sea´s were like a mirror an