Tour at 13:00
Report from Eldey: Weather conditions seemed to have calmed down a bit with less swell when we sailed out. There were loads of puffins sitting on the water and flying around. After about half an hour we spotted Atlantic white beaked dolphins, there were 4 and they were surfing the waves. The animals came quite close to the boat giving us some good views of the lovely patterns on their side. Due to the waves they had to come up a bit more to take breath and we managed to see their white beaks. After leaving the dolphins we saw a blow in the distance, we travelled there but unfortunately we did not find the humpback whale again. When moving away the weather turned more rough and we had quite big swells. Unfortunately we did not spot anymore wildlife during the rest of the trip.
-Anouk
Tour at 10:00
Report from Elding: The weather conditions continued being not as good as desired. The wind kept blowing rough and hard from the south-east, clouds were covering almost all the skies and a dense misty was starting to thickening out in the bay. But it really didn't matter, as we were about to see one astonishing spectacle in this tour. About 40 min after our departure we saw our first species: a small pod of about 4-6 white beaked dolphins, wandering really close to the surface some few meters away from us. We stopped our boat, since we wanted to appreciate better this beautiful big dolphins, and we discovered that, indeed, we had at least two other pods surfacing really close to us, each of them with the same amount of individuals, 6-8. We could see that those few dolphins that were a little bit more far away from us were starting to slightly jump. We moved a little bit far away, trying to spot another species. It took a little while, but at the end we spotted a small blow, about 300 m away from us. We approached the animal, but it seem to be quite elusive. It was a minke whale, and we managed to spot it surfacing the seas but only once. We started to feel a little disappointed about this elusive behaviour of the whale, but then, suddenly, something happened at 12 o clock. A strange huge splash about 300 m away from us. We sailed a little towards it and we saw it again! It was the minky, which was breaching over it's back just in front of us! A really special and unique behaviour from this species of whales, that can be rarely seen on our tours! It was an impressive and wonderful sight: the white belly shining with the weak rays of light, and the dark back harshly colliding with the surface. Unfortunately, we had to leave this incredible minke whale since we were running out of time, but on our way back home we managed to see another pod of dolphins. And this time they were all jumping out of the surface. An incredible ending for such an unforgettable tour!
-Alberto Alejandro
Tour at 09:00
Report from Eldey: We were expecting rather rough seas as it was very windy so we recommended for our passengers to take sea sickness tablets before the tour. The sailing out on the bay was smooth as we then sailed with the wind and the swell. It took us a bit more then 40 minutes to find our first animal, minke whale. This was an elusive minke and unfortunately we only saw it surface 3 times before we lost sights of it. Shortly after we left this area we spotted our second minke whale, it was clearly feeding, coming up with high speed in a middle of a big bird flock. This minke was not easier than the first so we kept on going. Our second species on the tour was the white beaked dolphins. There must have been at least 20-25 dolphins spread over a large area. It was exciting watching them jumping around our boat and few times in a short distance. On our way back we saw two minke whales, the last one was definitely the best whale of the tour. It surfaced few times only 50 meters away so we could see the whole body of the animal while it was underwater! The swell is expected to be a bit larger on the next tours as the wind is picking up.
-Sigurlaug Sigurðardóttir
Birds seen on todays tour: northern fulmar, northern gannet, kittiwake, eider duck, lesser black backed gull, razorbill, atlantic puffin, common guillemot, arctic tern and arctic skua.
Status: RUNNING
We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik on a windy day. There is some strong winds from the south east, and pretty choppy out at sea . Hope you are able to join us to see these amazing giants in their natural environment.
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