Monday, 24 March 2025

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 13:00

Report from Eldey: We set off on this cold, wet morning with the wind behind us. The waves weren't anything too big but there were still a lot of whitecaps. We travelled around the bay seeing many seabirds such as Northern gannets and black guillemots. On our travels in total we saw 5 pods of harbour porpoises, the pods varied in size with the biggest totalling 4 individuals. Overall, we saw 11 individuals. Then once we got closer back towards Reykjavík we spotted a minke whale! It was quite fast and popped up a few times. Due to the quickness of our sightings we decided to give out complimentary tickets so our passengers can come back again and hopefully spend a bit more of the tour enjoying the cetaceans of Faxaflói.

- Rob Hyman

report from Eldey: This afternoon was quite rainy and windy but that didn´t hold us back. After about half an hour we spotted a minke whale! We got to spend quite some time with this individual and even saw multiple lungefeeds! After some time, we gave it some well-deserved rest and headed deeper into the bay. We than ran into a pod of 4 white beaked dolphins. They were swimming around us, sometimes closely side by side. After a successful afternoon, it was time for us to head back into port.

Milan Vansteelandt

Northern gannet, black guillemot, common guillemot, eider duck, black legged kittiwake, black backed gull, black headed gull, glaucous gull, Iceland gull, Northern fulmar