Status: RUNNING
We are sailing out from Reykjavik Harbour today. The forecast predicts wind from the east and we can experience some swells. If the wind direction changes we might end the tour in the harbor in Hafnarfjörður where we will have a bus ready to transport us back to Reykjavík. That means that the tour might take up to 4-5 hours.
Tour at 13:00
Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: The sunshine brought lots of passengers out today so we took out two boats to try and make the tour more comfortable. The tour started of nicely with calm seas, blue skies and perfect visibility. We passed many big flocks of seagulls and fulmars, looked very promising for marine mammals, even on the fishfinder plenty of food could be seen. Four whale watching boats were out searching today, two from our company and two from others but no matter how much we searched there was no whales, dolphins or porpoises could be found. On the way back to land the wind and swell picked up and was quite uncomfortable, everyone wrapped up warm with the on board overalls and treated themselves to a whale punch (hot chocolate with a shoot of Rum. We offered our passengers a complimentary ticket and hope that they have better luck next time.
- Megan Whittaker and Hanna Michel.
Birds seen on today´s tour include; ravens, eider ducks, red-breasted mergansers, great northern diver, long-tailed ducks, kittiwakes, iceland gulls, shags, northern fulmars, northern gannets, common guillemots, glaucous gulls and black-backed gulls.