Tour status: RUNNING
Tour at 20:30
Report from Eldey: Although the sky was mostly cloudy we were lucky to enjoy the sunset for the whole tour, as it shined through the only gap in the clouds. After only 30 minutes, we spotted the powerful blow of a humpback whale! For the most part the whale was travelling, but we were also lucky enough to see it lifting its fluke and slapping its pectoral fins. After a great sighting we searched for other animals further out in the bay, but it seemed the rest of our whale friends were sleeping somewhere else. As it started raining, a beautiful rainbow appeared over Reykjavík. During the sailing back to the harbour, we enjoyed live music and a gorgeous sunset.
-Sigurlaug Siguðardóttir
Tour at 17:00
Report from Eldey: This evening we had a tour of quite a different kind for a few reasons: Firstly the sun was shining, there was no wind and no waves. It was beautiful and relaxed and a real easy job. Next we did not have to go very far to find a young minke whale behaving in a rare way as it was approaching the boat, staying close to us and sticking it's rostrum out of the water over and over again. After a while we went on, left it behind to see more cetaceans. But eventually we turned back to see this calm and curious animal one more time before going home.
- Valentin Witek
Tour at 14:00
Report from Hafsúlan: We had sun in the harbour but as we sailed out we were greated with fog. Lucky for us the fog did not stay for long and the rest of the tour was sunny. Our fist encounter was a minke whale that surfaced around the boat for 20 minutes. Everywhere we look on the bay there were huge flocks of birds and for the rest of the tour we saw 9 more minke whales by all these big flocks. We also saw around 10 harbour porpoises feeding unterneath the birds. Great tour on the calm sunny bay this afernoon.
-Kolbrún Þóra Sverrisdóttir
Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: Sun and whales, it's the best way to describe our trip during the afternoon. Calm seas and blue skies (finally!) is always a good combination but if we add the fact that thousand of birds were feeding on the bay that could only mean that our chances to see cetaceans were high and our best hopes were fulfilled by far. An estimated 10-20 minke whales were popping up during the whole tour, some of them got very close to us. In addition, a single harbour porpoise emerged in between minkes (a rare thing to see) and 2 white-beaked dolphins decided to make a visit to the area where more of the minkes were feeding. The way back was dominated but a powerful sun that was charging our batteries for the rest of the day, a fantastic experience.
Rodrigo A. Martinez Catalan
Tour at 10:00
Report from Hafsúlan: Our tour this morning was accompanied by a thick fog, just hanging all over the landscape, sourrounding the bay. However, we still managed to find an area with a flock of feeding seabirds and our patience payed off, when we saw 2 minke whales feeding with the birds. One of them was producing bubbles to hord the fish together at the water surface and the seabirds were just going for the leftovers from the whales. After this lovely encounter we went to look for something else and soon found 3 pods of white-beaked dolphins, altogether about 20 individuals. They were just travelling at a slow pace and we could easily keep them at the side of the boat. What a great morning!
-Diana Besel
Tour at 09:00
Report from Eldey: It was foggy already in the harbour and got more dense with every other mile we went, which made it hard to believe in a great success finding any whale today. A first flock of birds on our way raised the hopes, on we went to leave more miles behind. We fought us a path through this thick soup of fog, until something nervously quick struck our eyes. At first it was hard to determine and turned out to be one single white beaked dolphin. What an unusual encounter! By following it we came to a clearing in the middle of the bay, a room within the cloud we went through and it was full of minke whales and seabirds, at least six of these big sea mammals were moving all around us in a relaxed way, which together with the absence of any wind, waves or further vision made the whole scene appear like in slow motion.
- Valentin Witek
Birds seen during our tours: eider duck, northern fulmar, common guillemot, black guillemot, razorbill, atlantic puffin, black-legged kittiwake, arctic tern, northern gannet, herring gull, lesser black-backed gull, arctic skua.
We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavík today. We are expecting good sea conditions and we look forward to welcome you on board with us!
For more information please contact our ticket office at 00354 5195000 or elding@elding.is
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