Saturday, 4 July 2026

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 11:00, 13:00, 15:00, 17:00, 20:30
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 20:00

Today's Whale Watching tours from Reykjavík are on schedule as shown above. Remember to dress according to weather and feel free to borrow our thermal overalls if needed!

Report from Eldey: On this unusual sunny day, 132 people boarded Eldey in hopes of seeing cetaceans. We were very excited to be here and on the way out, we stumbled upon an epic air battle between an Artic skua and an Artic tern. Unfortunately for the tern, the skua was winning. After that, we spotted our first whale. A minke whale surfaced quick and fast to our left, and then disappeared. So we decided to leave it be because in the distance there were small clouds coming from the surface. The blows of humpback whales! In this area, at least 5 of them were feeding, joining together and splitting up again. On of them was blowing bubbles and surfacing close to us. It was beautiful behavior to observe. We followed three of them for a bit and almost decided to leave, but the captain had a feeling so we waited. Suddenly, four humpback whales did a lunge feed right at the surface close to boat! Absolutely incredible, we could even see the baleen plates. On the way home, a big pod of 15 white-beaked dolphins joined our journey, racing trough the waves and swimming under the boat. We arrived to port full of new memories and learned to always trust the captain intuition.

- Janiek Schrijer 

Report from Hafsulan: On this sunny day, we were very excited to head out onto the bay. Before long, we spotted our first whale, a minke whale surfaced quickly before disappearing again. We decided to leave it be, as we noticed some blows rising from the surface in the distance. We soon saw our first humpback whale fluke before noticing three more a little farther away. All four humpbacks treated us to beautiful fluke dives, while an occasional minke whale would pop up nearby. Then we noticed more movement ahead. Two humpback whales were synchronized as they repeatedly lunge fed together surfacing close to us, creating a spectacular display. Incredible feeding behavior! Eventually it was time to head back and we happily left these whales and sailed to the harbour.

-Maria Ernesto

Report from Eldey: The sun kept shining bright over us as we left for our 13:00 tour. We immediately headed out just off the coast of Akranes, where we had seen lots of activity the tour before. Upon arriving in the spot we could see so many flocks of birds everywhere, diving at the water to catch schooling fish. Of course, accompanied by various blows, specifically humpback whale blows. Everywhere we decided to sail we would eventually run into a humpback whale feeding. We came across a group of 3 humpback whales, feeding together! the groups later disbanded and it was only 2 whales with one leaving the scene. We saw several bubble-net feeding events, and later, the two whales passed right in front of the boat, leaving everyone speechless! We changed direction a few more times and always found a new humpback whale individual. In total, we saw roughly 5-6 humpback whales. As we slowly headed back towards the harbour, on our way we encountered several minke whales, about 2-3 individuals. Usually shy, these individuals were seen by almost everyone on board. Our passengers returned home with a new found love for the ocean and whales. Our mission to educate and inspire was accomplished, greatly helped by the very charismatic humpback whales! 

-Matteo Poggio

Report from Hafsulan: We stared our tour under sunny and bright skies. At the beginning of our tour we spotted a pot of six harbour porpoises that surfaced couple of times not fur from our boat. We continued further out because some splashes got our attention. It was tow humpback whales that breached twice rolling around and slapping there pectoral fins close to our boat. It was an incredible start of our tour. Soon after a minke whale joined the show. After some time we left these tow individuals to continue further out. Faxafloy bay was foul of humpback whales, we found our selves in an area with at least six of them. They where feeding, lots of birds present and twice they treated us this some fluke slaps. After this incredible show we came back to port with lots of excitement and many nice stories to say.

-Eleftherios Maniuoudakis

Report from Eldey: The sun kept shining strong in the evening, clear skies above Reykjavik and Faxafloi bay! The wind picked up and there where some white caps but nothing stopping us from having a wonderful tour! We headed out northwest, after about an 40 minutes we knew we had reached a good spot, lots of bird folks spread around the bay, feeding on schooling fish. There were blows all around and close to us two humpback whales surfaced! Out of nowhere, one of them breached! We had our camera´s ready for a second breach, but this individual joined again with the other one and off feeding they went. After enjoying their company we headed over to another pair of humpback whales and spent some time with them. When other boats joined, we decided to leave them and stumbled upon a fifth humpback whale! This one surfaced very close to the boat. On the way back, we spotted at least 6 minke whales all around us. With the sun and wind from behind and whales surrounding us, it was magical evening.

- Janiek Schrijer

Report from Elding: We sailed out under clear sunny skies and calm seas with direction straight towards the open waters. Our first sighting was a minke whale that surfaced few times close to our boat. Some blows on the distance got our attention and we went to investigate. It was at least six humpback whales in a distance les than a mile. We passed form all of them until our last available minute. We stayed more with  tow humpback whales that were bubble net feeding together close to our boat. A truly amazing show with lots of birds present as well.

-Eleftherios Manioudakis 

Artic tern, Artic skua, Northern gannet, Northern fulmar, black-legged kittiwake, lesser and greater black-backed gull, herring gull, common gull, black guillemot, Atlantic puffin, common eider, common guillemot