Monday, 22 September 2025

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 13:00, 17:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 10:00, 12:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 14:00, 15:00

Report from Eldey: Sailing out this morning, we expecting quite some swell and wind to come onto us, but got easily surprised with the quality of our tour ! Minutes out of the harbor, we managed to see a friendly minke whale, roaming around us for a lot of time, more proactive than minke behavior usually is. Conitnuing further, we then encountered a first duo of humpback whales not far from the lighthouse Gröta, peacefully fluke diving up and down for long minutes. We ventured further away, trying our luck in the high swell, only to find another duo of humpback whales and a pod of 5 white beaked dolphins, with one of these humpbacks breaching right in front of us. As the dolphins bowrode with us one last time, we headed back more than happy with what Faxafloi bay had to offer us today. 

-Alex Paumier

Report from Eldey: Icelandic weather gave us a taste of its forces today as we ventured out into an especially windy Faxaflói bay, bundled up in our cozy overalls. We sailed for about 40 minutes before we spotted something up ahead: blows! As we approached the location of the blows, we saw two humpback whales gracefully fluke before us. And we patiently waited, hoping that the whales would reappear, and that they did! We enjoyed their presence for about half an hour longer, finishing off with a double fluke dive, before we said goodbye to search for more wildlife. Our search sadly yielded no more results and we slowly made our way back to the harbor, of course still smiling after this heartwarming moment with the two humpbacks! 

-Sigrún Helgu 

Report from Eldey: Sailing out for the last time today, we knew that the wind and waves would be getting worse throughout the night, so we headed straight far out as fast as we could. Roaming around the same areas were are sightings were plentiful this morning, we scanned unsuccessfully for a while. Suddenly, we spotted 2 blows together further away: 2 humpback whales, seemingly diving quickly to feed, were next to us ! Staying with them as long as we could, we ended up seeing a pod of 5 white beaked dolphins join them in the feeding, circling around us for all to see and making one of the humpbacks roll around belly side up, showing its pectoral fins to all before fluke diving. Coming back facing the waves, we knew that we were lucky to have had such a tour in this weather, where all got to see more than what we could've imagined.

-Alex Paumier

Northern gannet, manx shearwater, Northern fulmar, common guillemot