✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 13:00
Report from Eldey: As this morning, the sun was still shining brightly and helping against the cold of the northerly winds we had at temperatures around freezing point. With just smaller white caps on the waves, the visibility was great still and so we were hopeful to find animals as we did previously. After about an hour of sailing, having passed the area where we had left dolphins earlier this morning, we heard word of dolphins spotted further out. As we got there, unfortunately we did not manage to find them again. But with a lot of time left, we kept searching. Crossing to the eastern side of Faxabay we covered a very large area but it seems that our cetaceans had moved further out than we were able to search. This is unfortunately a part of wildlife and so we invited all our passengers to return to us again within the next 2 years for another, hopefully successful, tour.
-Viivi Pöyhönen
✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 09:00
Report from Eldey: This morning was simply perfect with sun shining over snowy mountain tops. Calm seas and excellent visibility, we were more than excited to be sailing again after one week of stormy weather and no tours going out. At about one hour of sailing, we saw a blow in front of us, accompanied by some splashes. What we thought to be a minke whale, turned out to be 3 white-beaked dolphins. Because of the cold air we could actually see the dolphins' blows which is more unusual. Very cool! They were, however, very elusive, staying in the area but surfacing very unpredictably and therefore being difficult to spot. We sailed on and kept browsing the area to see what else we could possibly find. We spotted a flock of sea brids actively feeding and headed towards them. We spotted a dark shadow under the water surface moving very fast by our side towards the back of the boat: A very, very small minke whale! Definitely a very young individual, probably born only last winter and just recently been weaned from the mother's nursing. Since it was moving fast, we didn't manage to spot it again, unfortunately. Luckily on our way back we spotted another pod of 5 white-beaked dolphins. This time they were more social and very playful, even some jumping and bow-riding our boat! That showed again how nature can be and how each individual really has it's own character and behaviour.
- Sabrina Voswinkel
Birds seen today: common guillemot, eider duck, black-backed gull, black-headed gull, glaucus gull.
We are sailing from the Old Harbour in Reykjavík today,There can always be movement on the bay, so if your are prone to sea sickness we have sea sickness tablets available. Make sure to dress warmly and make use of our warm overalls as it is always colder on sea than on land. For more information contact us by email elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000.
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