Whale diary

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 19:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Clear skies and a perfect sunset were the background of the last tour of the day. During this journey it was possible to fallow and observe a minke whale

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 19:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The continuation of good weather was still keeping everybody in high spirits. It took us about an hour to get to the place where we saw a lovely group of maybe 8-

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 19:00

    Report from Elding: Smooth sailing with some fine rain for this tour, we sailed out to the usual area and came across a small pod of 4 white-beaked dolphins. They seemed to be milling ar

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    We will be sailing out from Reykjavík's Old Harbour today for our tours. Sea conditions are favorable but we might get a few rain drops here and there throughout the day. Please don't hesitate to contact our ticket office directly for any quest

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    Tour at 19:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We were heading towards the sunshine for our evening tour, which made the spotting a little more difficult, but set a nice background for the tour. Our first sighting was a po

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: This has to be one of my favourite tours this summer. It started out like a very challenging tour. The sea was almost mirror flat, but there was also almost no life in sight. I started to lose hope when our captain i

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: We were off to a difficult start on this tour, but our luck quickly changed an hour into sailing, when we had our first encounter with a pod of 5-7 white-beaked dolphins! Even though it wa

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    Tour status 20:30 : CANCELLED

    Due to the wind getting worse, and the sea conditions getting rough, we have to cancel the 20:30 tour today. For more information contact our ticket office at elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000

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    Tour status: RUNNING 

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: A beautiful, calm, quiet evening on the bay. There was not much to see in terms of wildlife tonight, even the birds were rare, the occasional fulmar flying past or a puffin divi

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    Tour at 20:30 

    Report from Elding: Sun was shining, sea was calm and finally the temperature was warming up. We were looking forward to heading out into the big blue to search for some whales. After 30 minutes of sailing we came across our first, a minke wh

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    Tours Running: 09:00, 10:00, 13:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:30

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The weather smoothed up after the previous trips. Our first sighting was an elusive minke whale that we were able to fallow for a w

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: We sailed out on overcast sky, the sunlight shining a little through the clouds into a calm bay. We kept looking for cetaceans over one and a half hours as suddenly a few

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: When heading out for our midnight tour we had perfect sea conditions and we got to see some sunshine as well, creating a very nice background for our first sightings. The first one

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Eldey: It was just incredible evening! First of all we got to see sun and amazing sunset with Snæfellsjökull mountain in the front. With warm orange light all landscape looks like in fire. It was bit windy but that didn´t stop

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Eldey: The sea state has now become very still and we had really nice whale watching conditions to begin with. First we saw a very interesting sight: two lone white

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Eldey: The wind didn't change directions for our tour, we went out facing a cold wind blowing from the West. Fortunately, the sea was

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: Not the most beautiful of nights out in the bay, with misty rain that was so fine you didn´t realise you were get wet until yo

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 20.30

    Report from Elding: The sun was still shining when we sailed out from Reykjavik, but the wind had picked up a little. We searched the bay quite intensely, to spot ceteaceans, with no luck. Finally we fou

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    Tour status: RUNNING

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The bay did not seem to be much alive during the day so our expectations were moderate. Once again we were to learn better. Du

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    09:00, 10:00, 13:00, 14:00, 17:00, 20:30: RUNNING

    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: Our last tour of the day was marked by calm sea and an incredible sunset in between the clouds. After sailing for a while, we came acro