Friday, 22 February 2013

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: Today we sailed out from Hafnarfjörður, it was pretty windy with a little bit of rain but the ocean wasn't so bad at all ! We sailed in the Hafnarfjord area for a while but then decided to head to Reykjavik or Faxaflói bay. There we found three pods of White-beaked dolphins that were hunting, they were moving very quickly but started playing around the boat at the end, jumping up, swimming very close to the surface beside the boat and then under it ! As always, the White-beaked dolphins were beautiful and so much fun to watch ! We also saw a small Ruddy Turnstone that was trying to land on our boat, it was probobly lost out on the sea and trying to find it's way back ! The weather was better than expected and it was wonderful seeing about 8-12 dolphins, so this was a very good tour ! Birds seen on todays tour included: Fulmars, Cormorants, Eider Ducks, Kittiwakes, Glaucous Gulls, Razorbolls, Black-backed Gulld and Shags