Saturday, 18 June 2022

Today we will be operating on our lovely vessel Eldey for the 13:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:30 Classic Whale Watching tours. Make sure to dress appropriately for the tours as it is always colder on sea than on land.

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 14:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 17:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 20:30

COVID-19: Keep in mind that passengers and crew are asked to ensure their own hygiene and safety at all times. Washing hands thoroughly with soap and using a hand sanitiser is advised. Masks are not mandatory but are recommended in areas where keeping distance from others is not possible.

Report from Eldey: We set out with some rough and challenging seas, which later turned into beautiful sunshine and calmer waters. We set out of the bay and spend some time admiring the landscape and seabirds before seeing our first humpback whale. This one was quite shy and tended to dive a lot so we made our way to another one we saw blow in the distance. This one came much closer and was very friendly. We also saw a lot of other blows all around us and another humpback traveling towards the bay a short distance from us, so in the end we saw about 4-5 humpback whales and no one really knew where to look or go first. It was an amazing day with beautiful sightings.

- Cindy Schwenk

Report from Eldey: The sea was much calmer than this afternoon and there was a beautiful sunlight giving us great views on the mountains. In the previous tour we needed close to an hour to find the whales, but this time after less then 10 minutes we found 2 humpback whales! The animals were swimming right next to Akurey, one of the puffin islands. Those two adults seemed to be travelling next to each other, going toward the lighthouse Grótta. We followed them until they started to lob tail! Both of them were throwing there tail out of the water with energy! There blow was doing a loud sound, which is called trumpeting. We thought that we might be disturbing them so we decided to go away, to find other animals and let those ones travel in peace. We quite easily found more whales, seeing them make big splashes from far away. We went in that direction until we saw blows and we approach an animal that was feeding, calmly swimming and going for dives. There was birds everywhere tonight. We went to another one to see if the other were doing nice fluke dives and we could see a fourth humpback doing fluke dives, then peduncle throw, tail slap and pec slap. A complete show. In the same area we spotted a minke whale a couple of times. We were seeing more blows and splashes at the distance so we estimated that there was at least 6-7 humpback whales in the area. It was time to head back to Reykjavik so we listened some music and calmly admire the landscape after a very fruitful whale-watching tour.

- Miquel Pons

Common guillemot, black guillemot, Atlantic puffin, arctic tern, herring gull, black-backed gull, black-legged kittiwake, eider duck, northern fulmar, northern gannet