Unfortunately, there were no sightings, they were very sneaky today and didn't even give us a glimpse. We offered our passengers complimentary tickets to try again either in Reykjavik or Akureyri anytime in next few years. We hope that next time the whales are more in the mood for people watching. 

We continued to scan the sea looking for whale activity but all we could find was many arctic terns feeding on the sea surface. We went back and gave to our passengers a complimentary ticket to have the opportunity to come back on our boats for free to see the whales in Reykjavík or in Akureyri.

After an hour we had our first sighting. A minke whale surfaced a few times before disappearing. We went further and saw a humpback whale, very calmy swimming. After one deep dive it reappeared further resting at the surface during a short time. We could see the splashes made by another humpback whale breaching one time far away.

We first saw one discret harbour porpoise followed by a second one much more curious. The water was clear enough to see this individual approaching the boat without surfacing. A bit later we saw the spout of a humpabck whale.

We went far in the bay, in the same area where the whales were found yesterday. They were still there ! The captain first spotted a blow with the binoculars. We patiently approached that blow and find out that there was at least 5 humpback whales in this feeding area.

We were very lucky to find them. First we saw a small feeding flock of kittiwakes and then suddenly a blow. A humpback whale popped up, then another blow. Two humpback whales feeding the in same area. They were roughly diving for about 6-7 minutes at a time but once or twice came close to the boat. Very quickiy a minke whale surfaced just meters from our bow also.

We could see it surfacing a few times before it disappeared. We continued our tour when our captain saw the blow of a humpback whale ! We carefully approached to see the whale fluke dive a few times very calmly, probably feeding. Suddenly the whale showed us a very powerful peduncle slap and and tail slapping for several minutes !

It was the perfect day to do whale watching on our fast rib boat Þruma and with our minimum of two passengers it was also a nice and relaxed tour. We sailed out and came across two humpback whales and a minke whale with smooth sailing all the way.

We were going to the same area where humpback whales were seen last week when we crossed the path of a white-beaked dolphin! This individual was probably travelling because we could not find it anymore. We continued our tour until we found a humpback whale feeding.