Friday, 11 July 2025

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 11:00, 13:00, 15:00, 20:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 17:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR |10:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00

Report from Eldey: What a morning! The sun was shining and the skies were clear as we headed out into the bay, looking for a new adventure. About 30 minutes into the trip, we spotted our first whales—two humpbacks swimming calmly nearby. They surprised us by turning around and coming super close to the boat. One of them even spy-hopped twice to check us out! Then a few white beaked dolphins joined the party! We could see 6 or 7 blows around us, so we decided to explore a bit more. Then we noticed a huge splash in the distance—a whale was breaching over and over! We were lucky enough to get there in time to catch a few more breaches, and one happened really close to the boat! The whale kept putting on a show with some awesome pectoral slaps and tail slaps. Just an absolutely amazing tour—so much action and such a great day on the water!

-Maria Ernesto

Report from Hafsulan: Sailing out this morning, we got lucky with the sun and whales, but still had to cope with the heavy wind and rolling waves. Quite quickly, we entered a great zone of activity, where all were feeding: throughout the tour, we saw 3 minke whales, a pod of 3 white beaked dolphins and 5 humpback whales, with 2 of them in pairs ! We even had he great luck to see the dolphins interact with one the humpback, as all fed together in the same zone. We headed back, facing the waves, happy to have seen these sightings on such coarse weather.

-Milan Vansteelandt

Report from Eldey: We set out on a sunny morning, the bay sparkling and calm. As we headed out, the weather shifted, clouds rolled in, rain began to fall, and the sea grew wavy and windy. Our first sighting came soon: a pair of humpback whales, likely feeding. We stayed with them for a while, watching them surface and dive, their spouts rising like little clouds in the drizzle. Also, every time they went for a deeper dive they showed us their beautiful flukes. Later, we moved on and found another pair, this time against the mountains, mist curling around the peaks, a truly stunning scene. We lingered longer than planned, and had to go back to port. Wet, windswept, and smiling, definitely a day to remember.

- Guillermo Monescillo Aragón

Report from Hafsulan: Sailing out this afternoon, the swell and wind had died down. We knew quite quickly where to head, which helped us deliver a great tour: we quickly found a trio of humpbacks, logging together, resting peacefully and only fluke diving every now and then. We managed to stay with this group for so long, as they separated and came together again. As we slowly headed back, we even managed to see a 4th one, that fluke dived a couple of times. With these 4 humpback whales, particularly with this trio, we headed back knowing we were very lucky with the sightings of this tour.

-Alex Paumier 

Report from Elding: We set out on calm waters with the setting sun shining down through sparse cloud cover. As we headed deep into the bay, a vigilant passenger spotted a pod of white-beaked dolphins ahead. A larger pod of about 8 individuals, containing at least 2 mother-calf pairs! A very strong start to the tour! We then headed towards multiple large blows in the distance came across an area with around 10 humpback whales! Blows, flukes and splashes in absolutely all directions! We turned our attention to the most active of the bunch, a huge fluke slamming down for repeated tail slaps, and a much smaller whale breaching proudly close-by: it was our beloved mother-calf humpback pair! Baby humpback was continuously breaching, head slapping, pec slapping and some white-beaked dolphins joined in on the commotion! Always such a treat to see these species interacting with each other! On our other side, another curious humpback was doing multiple spy-hops, trying to get a peak above the water surface. Amid all the action, of course, the minke whales could not be left out. Living up to their shy reputation, they made brief appearances mainly in the background, but giving us consistent sightings. We had around 5 minkes, scattered among the more extroverted humpbacks and dolphins. As we stayed with the mother-calf humpback pair, we were treated to another amazing sight, bubble-net feeding followed by a huge open-mouth lunge from the mother! We followed this pair until out time ran out, and headed towards the harbour. Even on the way back, we saw many humpback fluke dives in the distance, minkes surfacing quickly be our side, and even more white-beaked dolphins sending us on our way. What an incredible tour!

- Orsi Stipsicz

Atlantic puffin, Northern fulmar, Northern gannet, common guillemot, Lesser and greater black back gull, black guillemot, herring gull, eider duck, Arctic tern, Arctic skua