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Friday, 1 November 2024
- CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 9:00, 13:00
CLASSIC WHALE WATCHING | 09:00
Report from Eldey: Sailing out this morning after a stormy day, we were very lucky to not have to go further out into the waves: very quickly, we encountered 1 humpback whale, 10 minutes from the harbour. This long diving whale was one of the individuals seen in the last days, coming only short spams at the surface before diving for over 6 minutes. As we waited between each surfacing, we further noticed 1 minke whale, passing with great speed not far from the shore. We kept most of our tour with our friendly humpback, a wise decision as it decided to breach right in front of us ! We then left our two cetacean friends be, to come back to the harbor after this very easy and enjoyable tour.
- Alex Paumier
CLASSIC WHALE WATCHING | 13:00
Report from Eldey: Sailing out into the bay this afternoon, we hoped to reiterate the sightings of this morning. Quite quickly, we found again our friendly humpback whale, with which we stayed with close to an hour, coming several times very close to us, fluke diving proficiently. Later on, as we decide to leave this whale be, we roamed around the inner part of the bay, without much chance to see other bigger species, but encountering several pods of harbor porpoises, with around 15 individuals seen throughout the tour, before heading back to land.
- Maria Ernesto
Birds encountered today were:
Icelandic gull, lesser black-backed gull, glaucous gull. cormorant, common guillemot
Wildlife encountered today:
The Minke Whale is the most common whale around Iceland and actually the world thus it is one of the main species we encounter on our whale watching tours. It is one of few species that don’t mind coming to shallower waters like here in Faxaflói Bay to feed on the abundant food available to them.
The Humpback Whale is quite spectacular undergoing the longest migration of any mammal (5176miles/8334km one way), attracting females by singing to them and of course their energetic nature. On many occasions humpbacks have been seen breaching, tail slapping, fin slapping, blowing bubbles and spy hopping just to mention a few. The humpback is also one of the larger whales we encounter
The Harbour Porpoise is the smallest and most abundant cetacean around Iceland. They are usually shy but occasionally they come and play around the boats. They can be relatively hard to spot from a distance due to their size and their abundance depends entirely on the food availability of our shores since they are opportunistic feeders.