Saturday, 24 September 2011

Tour at 13:00

The weather was much better on this tour. We didn't had to wait long before we spotted the first Minke Whale. After a while we spotted a few Minke Whales in the same area. One Minke Whale surfaced only 10 meters from the boat. It was also amazing to see the Gannets diving, the sea was full of them this afternoon. Then we went further out to find some dolphins but we had no luck with them. At the end of our tour we found another Minke Whale surfacing close to the boat before we had to head back. Great tour!

 

Tour at 09:00

We sailed out in a rainy weather and it was also a bit foggy. We spotted a really nice group of harbour porpoises, they surfaced many times in the waves in front of the boat and stayed with us for few minutes before disappearing. So we headed on, we had a lot of diving gannets around us and in the area, but no whales around them. We searched for some time until all of a sudden a white beaked dolphin breached out from ocean only 80 meters away. They were 3 together and came closer and swam around us and under the boat and came really close to the boat only 2-3 meters away. But as quickly as they came they were gone again. We searched in different areas but no more whales were to be seen in the area. So very wet tour with really nice dolphins and porpoises.