Tour Status: RUNNING
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: And again we headed out, focused on the area were we left all this animals on the morning tour but still keeping our eyes sharp as you never know. Suddenly our captain saw a blow not far from us but unfortunately the animal vanished and we did not see it again. So we headed further our. It seemed like most of the animals from the morning tour had left the area but luckily a lone minke whale was still around surfacing again and again, so everyone got a good look of it. The individual was very active and fast moving but we could nicely keep track of it. With the sun being out once again, this was a really beautiful afternoon out in the bay.
- Sarah Kompatscher
Tour at 9:00
Report from Eldey: With the calm sea and sun peaking behind the clouds, this tour looked promising from the start. We sailed out for about 40 minutes when we spotted a mighty blow on our port side. We turned hard to port and in no time we where close to the animal. It was a rather shy minke whale. It surfaced just 2 times around us and then disappeared. Soon we encountered a pod of 3-4 white-beaked dolphins. They were also very shy and difficult to have a proper sighting of. It seems like we got a chance for a do-over on this tour, because soon enough we were surrounded by 5-6 hungry minke whales surfacing all around us. Close to the are dolphins came to check out what was happening and now we had a proper nice encounter with these playful, jumping cetaceans to top off the beautiful sightings of the baleen whales we had before. We also managed to have some bonus points because we saw a few harbour porpoises as well, very close to our bow. What a beautiful morning.
-Lucas Heinrich
Bird species seen on todays tours: northern gannet, northern fulmar, black-legged kittiwake, eider duck, common guillemot, cormorant, lesser black-backed gull, black-headed gull,
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