Saturday, 14 November 2026

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 13:00

All whale watching tours are on schedule today from Reykjavík! Remember to dress according to weather and feel free to borrow our thermal overalls if needed!

Report from Eldey: Today our morning tour has started under a snowy weather with some mild cold breeze coming from the North. We headed towards this wind in search of wildlife in the form of cetaceans! The waves were a little bit bigger than we anticipated so the captain decided to stay close to land and search around the islands of Reykjavík since we've been pretty lucky these past few days with that. After 1 hour we heard on the VHF that some other boat had spotted a whale nearby. We went over there to check it out and soon enough we could see its blow, a blow from a humpback whale! It was our local rockstar, Banana! It was still around town swimming along the city sea shore, checking out the Christmas decorations being put on. We saw it was slowly swimming which meant it was probably having a lay-in as we all like to do every once and a while. After a few fluke dives it was time to say goodbye to Banana and head back into the harbour.

- Samantha Smith

Report from Eldey: With the sun shining bright and a winter breeze, we layered up and set sail into the bay. As we sailed out we admired the snow covered mountains on the horizon and learned a little about the islands around us. Not far into the tour we spotted the blow from one humpback whale! It was Banana still hanging around from this morning. Banana was feeding but had short dive intervals so we did not have to wait too long until they resurfaced. We got to see their lovely fluke and learned about how every humpback has a unique fluke pattern. Banana surfaced nice and close and we could see their pectoral fins through the surface of the water! It was amazing to watch a shadow form below the surface of the water before Banana would emerge to take a breath. After a fintastic viewing, we wanted to look around and see if anyone else was feeding in the area. No one else appeared to be feeding, so we saw Banana one more time before heading back to port. Banana was logging (resting) at the surface in shallow waters near Engey, which allowed for another nice encounter. Yes I did write Banana now a seventh time, but it was still a great tour overall!

- Pedro Teixeira

Northern fulmar, great and lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, common eider duck, long-tailed duck, black guillemot, razorbill, common guillemot, great cormorant, common loon, greylag goose, black-legged kittiwake, european shag