We went out on a privat whale watching tour on Elding II with a group from France. It was truly a perfect tour! We spotted many Minke whales, a couple of them very close to the boat, and some cute Harbour porpoises. We were enjoying the sightings when we got a call from the
The sea was still extremly calm and the whales were many out there. In fact, we had more than 4 minke whales, 2 of which came pretty close, a couple of white-beaked dolphins and harbour porpoises on our way back.
It got more windy than in
Two pods of white-beaked dolphins has been spotted: some individuals were folowing us swimming along the side of the boat. More than 10 minke whales all around us.
Still the same perfect sea and wether conditions for this early aftrnoon tr
A nice late evening tour: the birds life is alsways great at 17.00, when all birds are gathering in lage flocks. The minke whales has been spotted mainly close to those flocks of feeding birds, at least 3 and we had as well a sighting of an humpback whale, which came very cl
We headed again to the same area as we were in on the earlier trips today. We found about 5 Minke whales and were able to observe one of them very closely. There were still thousands of birds feeding in the area. Obviously a lot of food for the birds and whales here these da
We began by stopping at puffin island Akurey to look at the birds. We didn't have to sail out very far before we spotted a Minke whale, but we saw a big blow in the distance and decided to have a look at this animal. It turned out to be two Humpback whales! They stayed with
Whale watching tour cancelled due to bad weather conditions.
It was windy already at the beginning of the tour, the end was almost stormy. We saw several Minke whales, very shortly disseappearing in water, and several Humpback whales, one
The humpback whales were still many out at sea: we encountered again some we spotted in the morning and afternoon, and all and all we had more than 5 of them, some of which were feeding in the same spot with the white-beaked dolphins!
The
Again we left from Grindavík harbour, and sailed a similar route as at 13:00. This time we were much luckier! We spotted a Minke whale on the way to the Krísuvíkurberg cliff, but we soon lost it. On the way back from to the harbour after turning the boat around, we sp
Cancelled due to increasing winds :(
The wind was even stronger now, and we only managed to see a few white beaked dolphins very quickly before we lost them. No luck this time.
Strong winds made the trip