Tour at 17:00
An exciting tour! The guide was halfway through describing "the clock system" (the first thing we do when we get out on the bay) when we spotted a breaching minke whale! It breached several times in a row (4-5 times, maybe 6) and we got a good look at its white belly. It is unusual that minke whales breach in such calm sea so it was a very enjoyable and special sighting :-) After the breaching was over we observed this individual a couple of more times when it came up to the surface to breathe. It wasn't feeding (there were no birds in the area and the captain saw no fish on the fish finder) and soon it started to head away from us. Then we sailed to another area where we found a couple of more minke whales, some cooperative (feeding and shallow diving, close to the boat) and some not so cooperative (they weren't very approachable.. taking long deep-dives and changing direction a lot). The weather stayed beautiful this evening and both crew and passengers alike were happy with the tour :-)
Tour at 13:00
It was a wonderful tour with very good weather and super whale watching conditions. The ocean ist still very green that helps us and the passengers a lot to spot the whales. We always could see the dark shadow of the whales before they came up to breath and when they went down to dive. We spotted at least five to six minke whales on this tour. They were feeding there with the birds! They came actually very close to the boat. We spotted as well two very nice harbour porpoises. They behaved a bit unusual: They jumped around, approached the boat, changed direction while swimming and swam close to the boat. Very nice, but then, they suddenly disappeared!
Tour at 9:00
The conditions were very nice this morning, warm wind and calm, green sea. We started the tour out in Akurey where we enjoyed the cute puffins. Then we headed out on the bay where we spotted many feeding sea birds and several minke whales. The minkes surfaced several times right beneath the flocks of feeding birds, so we could often use the birds as a clue and tell the passengers to look at the area where all the birds lifted up in the air at the same time. A couple of seconds later the feeding minke whale would then surface at that very same spot :-) Nice tour.