MONDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2018

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Have you ever heard that if you don't like the weather in Iceland, just wait 5 minutes and it will change? Well after our afternoon trip we can say that it's completely true, we started we clear and sweet blue skies to end up with a snowfall and few rainbows in the way, a truly roller coaster tour! We enjoyed beautiful scenery with mountains cover by snow and very active seabirds. Nonetheless, we were out there with the purpose of having good sightigns. Unfortunately, we could only see twice an elusive minke whale and 4-5 harbour porpoises which surfaced very fast. It wasn't the quality of sightings that we expected so we offered complimentary tickets to our passengers. However, we had tons of fun discovering the wonders of Faxafloi.

-Rodrigo A. Martinez Catalan

Tour at 9:00

Report from Eldey: Monday mornings in general have bad reputation but today we had an amazing time. Sea was calm with only a little bit of swell rocking the boat. It was almost windless what happens rarely and we could watch beautiful sunrise over the Reykjavik. After 20 min of sailing, next to lighthouse Grotta, we saw pod of 3-8 white-beaked dolphins. It was impossible to estimate their number as animals were not close one to another. After a while of observation we found a pattern and it become clear that this animals were feeding. We were trying not to interrupt them but we manage to had close look at them when dolphins approached our boat by themselves. One of them even jumped few times! All dolphins encounters are much better than any visit in the aquarium and hopefully our guest enjoyed them us much as we did.

- Ewa Malinowska

Birds seen during our tours: eider duck, european starling, black-legged kittiwake, common gull, northern fulmar, northern gannet, common guillemot, great black-backed gull, lesser black-backed gull, glaucous gull, great northern diver, european cormorant.

We are sailing from the Old Harbour in Reykjavík today, there could be some movement out on the boat today, but we have complimentary sea sickness tablets at our ticket office. It might also continue to rain, so be sure to make use of our warm complimentary over alls to keep dry. For more information contact our ticket office by email at elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000