Happy New Year and thank you for all the good times in 2017!
Status: RUNNING
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: What a beautiful afternoon to start of the new years. Calm winds and a mist covering Reykjavik and the mountains. It was freezing cold but absolutely breath-taking. We were very surprised to find a very busy pod of 3 white-beaked dolphins by the islands 10 minutes sailing from the harbour, these seemed to be chasing after fish by the behaviours we were observing. We stayed with them for a while and got some very nice close encounters. Plenty of opportunities to get some photographs and video´s with the stunning scenery behind. We continued sailing offshore and we came across a harbour seal, very curious to begin with but then became difficult. After seeing the seal we noticed many birds starting to flock together and we hoped this mean´t whales. We checked out the area very well but we saw no other ceataceans until back towards land, a little bit further to where we were at the beginning of the tour we encountered another pod of white-beaked dolphins. This time a pod of 4, two mothers and their calves.
- Megan Whittaker
Bird species seen on today's tour include: glaucous gulls, iceland gulls, kittiwakes, shags, cormorants, eider ducks and greater black-backed gulls.
We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik on a beautiful cold first day of the new year 2018. Hope you will be able to join us in our search of these magnificent animals.
