Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: This afternoon we headed out again and finally the sun had decided to come out and displace some of the clouds. On our way out we spotted a couple of harbour porpoises traveling along, but after this brief encounter, it took us a while to find some animals to look at. However, then we saw quite a few of them. The next cetacean species we saw was a humpback whale that was feeding underneath a flock of birds which had caught our attention. And as we got closer we also saw a group of 6-7 white-beaked dolphins that were feeding in the same spot. The humpback whale started the traveling slowly away from that area and we decided to follow it for a while. It soon changed directions again and it seemed like it was feeding at the bottom of the sea again as it was going for many not too long dives without showing its fluke and staying in the area. But not enough, there was also a minke whale that we saw a couple of times a bit further away and also a second humpback whale quite close to the first individual. There were not that easy to follow inbetween the dives but whenever we were waiting for the humpbacks to come up there were dolphins around to enjoy. They were pretty scattered but it was probably around 40 in the greater area. After saying good-bye to all the whales and dolphins we made our way back to the harbour, proud and happy to have been on the first tour of the year with all 4 common cetacean species of Faxafloi!
- Hanna Michel
Tour at 09:00
Report from Hafsulan: It was quite rainy today, at least during the first half of the tour, and also quite bumpy sometimes. After about an hour or so we spotted a group of ca. 5 white-beaked dolphins. They were feeding underneath a small flock of feeding birds and going in all directions as they were hunting fish. Unfortunately they left the area after a few minutes and we lost track of them. Therefore, we headed further out to look for some other animals. We continued sailing until we saw a minke whale a few hundred meters away from us. The individual surfaced quite randomly but it stayed in the area so we managed to get closer and in the end it surfaced just about 20-30 m away from us a few times. And the best was that there was also another minke whale that always surfaced a bit further in the distance so we were actually looking at the same time. As we were running out of time, we headed back to the harbour which was a lot smoother than the way out.
- Hanna Michel
Bird species seen on todays tours include: northern gannet, northern fulmar, lesser black-backed gull, cormorants, and eider ducks.
Tour Status: RUNNING
We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik today. We are expecting some rain today but there is little to no wind and the sea should be quite calm. We are looking forward to welcoming you on one of our tours!
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