Friday, 11 September 2026

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 13:00, 17:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 12:00, 15:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 9:00

Report from Eldey: We sailed out with fairly choppy seas but a clearing sky overhead. Not too far into the tour we found our first Minke whale. It surfaced about 5 times quite leasurely but after a dive it seemed to have vanished forever. Some travelling later we saw a second minke! We managed to see this one for a couple surface sequences until a bigger blow caught our eye; a humpback whale was nearby! We went over and this encounter started with a very close surface, followed by a fair bit of travelling by the whale. It then went promply over into feeding and we saw a few lunges as well! Then, in the middle of this it breached twice! and then a bit later a third time! This was a perfect, spectacular ender to this morning tour, but also my final tour here with Elding. 

Takk fyrir mig

- Milan Vansteelandt

Report from Eldey: As soon as we left the harbour, the rain that had been pouring down suddenly stopped, and the sun started to peek through the clouds. Everyone stepped out onto the main observation deck, dressed in warm overalls, ready to see what the tour had to bring. Not long after leaving the harbour, we spotted a pod of 2 harbour porpoises surfacing next to the boat. The small whales swam away fast, so we were not able to stop for a viewing but nevertheless, it was very cute to see them for a brief second. We continued on to soon find a tall blow in the distance. It turned out to come from a humpback whale that was busy travelling. We followed it for some surfaces, and were able to observe some beautiful fluke dives. Continuing on, we discovered more and more seabirds, with the stars of the show being the Northern gannets which we could watch plunge dive, full of force, into the water. A minke whale swiftly surfaced, but was not seen again so we continued sailing. Excitingly, we noticed more blows on the horizon, which turned out to come from two humpback whales. At first, they were spread out, but did a single breach, and then they coupled together. We stayed to watch the pair of humpback whales do some fluke diving. Another minke whale also showed up and surfaced very close to us. We had ended up in such busy are! After a last fluke dive close to the boat, it was time to turn back to the harbour full of new memories. 

- Maja Andersson

Northern fulmar, Northern gannet, lesser and greater black-backed gull, herring gull, black-legged kittiwake, black guillemot