Tour at 17.00
Report from Eldey: The weather slightly changed from the previous tours. A small wind was starting to blow, making some little waves crush with our boat, although no whitecaps were out on the sea at this time. It took about 40 minutes to spot the first animal on the bay, a minke whale, which was probably feeding over the area since the animal was constantly changing it's position. Our passengers managed to get some good sightseeings of the animal before it disappeared in an eternal deep dive. We proceeded out travel, and we searched hard everywhere on the bay, but no more whales or dolphins seem to be willing to show themselves. In our way back home we spotted a solitary white beaked dolphin, sailing alone in the bay, what it's always a really strange behaviour coming from this extremely social animals. The dolphin gave a couple of laps around the boat, and then it disappeared as quick and unexpected as it came. We continued our trip back home, feeling a little disappointed with the small quantity of wildlife we had seen so far, when, suddenly, the magic of the whale watching acted again. A breaching whale at 9 o' clock! And the most beautiful and amazing thing is that it was a minky the animal that was breaching! We managed to see the animal coming out of the water for three times, and then it just disappeared. But the animal left on our mind and memory a really beautiful and unusual gift!
- Alberto Alejandro
Tour at 14:00
Report from Elding: The wind had calmed down a bit and the sun was shining in the bay when we set out this afternoon. Only after about 20 minutes of sailing we heard of a humpback whale in the area and soon spotted a blow, shooting like a geyser from the surface. We saw the humpback only surfacing about 30 meters from the boat, so that everybody could see its blowhole and its long white flippers, which truly make that species the 'angels of the sea'. The second time we saw it, the individual had moved on quite a bit from where we had last seen it and went for a deep dive, showing us its impressive fluke. Since we could not find it again, we decided to continue further out in the bay. The sun had to leave us in between , but won the fight against the clouds again at the end of the tour. Even though we sailed around a large part of Faxabay, we did not encounter any more cetaceans. Maybe the fish had moved away and the cetaceans with them. So we were glad that we had gotten good looks of the humpback whale at the beginning of the tour.
- Barbara Neubarth
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: The wind had calmed down, and we set sail towards Akranes town. The sun was shining bright, filling up the bay with warm light. Another whale watching boat had spotted a blow from a humpback whale, we changed direction and away we sailed. But we did not get very far, the passengers did not even had time to buy a drink at the bar. Suddenly a humpback whale started to breach, of course my camera was out or reach. This whale waved with it’s pectoral fin and said hello, and started to swim slow. Closer and closer to Reykjavik it swam, a large whale weighing up to 40 000 kilogram. After one hour outside the island Endey we said goodbye, and thereafter heading further out in the bay to give it a new try. During the rest of the tour a harbour porpoise and a minke whale appeared, but both of them quickly disappeared. The breaching humpback just outside the harbour will forever be on my mind, a more surprising whale watching tour will be hard to find.
- Johanna Bergman
Tour at 10:00
Report from Elding: There was quite a bit of wind as we sailed out into the bay this morning - but fortunately quite a few of our passengers made use of the complimentary tablets against seasickness we have on board our boats. We sailed quite far out into Faxaflói before we spotted our first whale - it was the humpback whale some of the other boats had been watching. We followed this whale for quite a while and got some nice looks at it - we even saw the blow of a second one in the distance."Our humpback" was doing quite short dives which made it very rewarding to watch. Quite early on it even tail-breached and showed us the back half of its body. We did also get a few glimpses at the underside of its fluke - but most of the time it wasn't showing much of its fluke and seemed to be doing quite shallow dives. As always when you're having fun time flew by and we had to say goodbye to this individual. On the way back we also saw small glimpses of a minke whale and a harbour porpoise as we were sailing past.
- Linda
Tour at 09:00
Report from Eldey: It felt cold when we set off in the strong wind. It took at least an hour until we found the first signs of cetaceans, that was a big blow 500 meters away. Right after we spotted the blow we noticed 2 harbour porpoises right in front of our boat. We traveled to the blow and soon realized that this was a humpback whale. It was easy to follow the humpback, even though it was constantly changing directions. While watching the humpback we spotted a minke whale in the same area. The minke was more elusive than the humpback we we only saw it twice. We got good looks at the humpback before we had to head back to land.
-Sigurlaug Sigurðardóttir
Bird species seen on today's tour include: northern fulmar, Atlantic puffin, arctic tern, lesser black-backed gull, northern gannet, common guillemot, artic skua, herring gull, kittiwake & eider duck.
Status: RUNNING
We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik. It is a bit chilly today and it will be movement on the boat out in the Faxabay.
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