Saturday, 30 August 2008

Tour at 17:00

Its cloudy and cold, but we saw a rainbow. Rainbows should bring luck:) and it did, because there were even more Minke whales than in the morning, and also the White beaked dolphins appeared again. They were breaching just in front of our boat. When they spotted us, they traveled towards us, so we could observe them next to the boat under water traveling and also bow riding, they stayed with us for a while and then they left. On the way back we met another 2 Minke whales and there was also a rainbow again. Nice "rainbow lucky tour"!

 

Tour at 13:00

Its rainy and cloudy, but the wind is ok. Very soon a Minke whale approached our boat. It was fast traveling but we could observe it. More of them appear further in the distance. While we sailed to them, we met a group of White beaked dolphins. They were realy curious and came so close to us, that we could almost touch them. Swimming under the boat, playing in the waves, it was so nice to look at them! Later another group appeared. There were many of these White beaked dolphins; we were just surrounded by them. On the way back it stopped raining, good tour.

 

Tour at 9:00

It was still quite rough but much better than it would have been yesterday. Despite the wind we had some good sightings this morning. The first animals we spotted were a group of breaching white-beaked dolphins which appeared suddenly in front of the boat. They stayed with us for a short while. For the next animals the passengers had to show more patience. It took us a while but then we found an area with at least five minke whales.