Tour at 20:30
Report from Eldey: It was just incredible evening! First of all we got to see sun and amazing sunset with Snæfellsjökull mountain in the front. With warm orange light all landscape looks like in fire. It was bit windy but that didn´t stop us from having fun. After great previous tours we had big expectations but with passing time we started to be worry as cetaceans were gone. Then out of nowhere 2 harbour porpoises came to cheer us up but we did not spent much time with them because we saw a big blow in distance. It wasn't clear what animals was that till we get enough close to confirm that it was a north atlantic right whale! It was our second encounter with this very rare whale today but it was much better than first one. This time whale was feeding, skimming with open mouth and upper jaw above water. Few times we saw a tail and even flippers when whale was rolling. We stopped and just waited without getting to close but many times right whale came so close that we almost could touch it! It was honestly my best whale watching trip!
- Ewa Malinowska
Tour at 17:00
Report from Eldey: We left the harbour under the sun, but with some wind, which picked up throughout the tour. After an hour of sailing, we had a really pleasant encounter with a minke whale! The minke surfaced several times, often quite close to the boat. We were able to stay with it for a few minutes, observing it, as it was feeding around us. Eventually, we had to leave the minke whale, and continue our search further out into the bay. Unfortunately, the rest of our tour was less successful so we started to head back in the direction of the harbour. It was overall a nice tour, with enjoyable weather and a great minke whale sighting!
-Anne Moullier
Tour at 14:00
Report from Hafsúlan: The tour this afternoon started with some light rain, but in the end we did get some sunshine after all. Winds also picked up a bit, but sea conditions were still not too rough. Our first sighting was a harbour porpoise, which popped up just in front of the boat and we got to see it again two more times. Then we heard about a rather unusual sighting from some of the other whale watching boats in the bay and went to have a look ourselves. What we found was a north atlantic right whale! These whales are extremely rare and have not been encountered in Faxafloí bay for a very long time. The whale was just traveling, surfacing three to five times in a row and then going for a deeper dive, showing us it's tail. An absolutely amazing experience for everyone, including the crew.
-Diana Besel
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: The fish from the morning seemed to have been finished by whales, dolphins and birds. Full of hope we started this joyful ride. We found a last remaining minke whale and left it soon. With no apparent target we tried our luck westwards, starting to doubt in our luck. But then our captain spotted a big blow, as he said, almost a kilometer away, and even though we were short on time we followed this trace, one of the best decisions in our company's history. The animal we saw fluking and surfacing a few times was of the probably most endangered cetacean species, close to extinction, worldwide maybe only 400 individuals left, and has not been seen in Faxafloi maybe in years: The northern atlantic right whale, as our researchers managed to find out and confirm. We were stunned, speechless, humble. No more words for what happened today.
- Valentin Witek
Tour at 10:00
Report from Hafsulan: Sea was flat and we had great visibility this morning. Our way out was in company of numerous flocks of puffins flying in direction of the bay. Puffins sitting on the water surface were fooling our passengers pretending to look like dorsal fins of cetaceans. When we saw other boats in the distance we knew that we are in the right place. Soon after a minke whale surfaced close by. This whale was showing himself always twice before going for 2 min dives so it was easy to keep our eyes on it. We went further to check what was going on around flock of seabirds. It was like winning a lottery because we ended up surrounded by around 15 feeding minke whales. We turned out engines and in silence we were watching whales and noisy birds feeding.
- Ewa Malinowska
Tour at 09:00
Report from Eldey: The sea was flat, sun was shining, at least partly, and the bay was full of life. Soon we found an area with lots of feeding birds soon followed by one minke whale after the other. In the end it must have been more than 10 of them. A small pod of white beaked dolphins split up and we followed 3 of them for another while. Soon our time was over and satisfied we sailed home.
- Valentin Witek
Birds species seen today include: atlantic puffin, black-legged kittiwake, manx shearwater, eider duck, razrobill, common guillemot, lesser black-backed gull, northern gannet, arctic skua
We are running our tours today from the Old Harbour in Reykjavík, sea conditions are favorable and it should stay dry for most of the day. Please don't hesitate to contact our ticket office for further information, either via phone +354 5195000 or elding@elding.is
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