Saturday, 6 April 2024

Today we will be operating our Classic Whale Watching tours at 09:00 and 13:00 on Eldey. Our Premium Whale Watching at 9:00, 12:00 and 15:00:00 will be on ÞrumaIV & Þruma II

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 9:00, 13:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 9:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 12:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 15:00

Report from Eldey: in this very sunny morning, but still quite cold, we sailed out excited to see what Faxaflói had for us this Saturday. The sea had some swell, but in general was very calm with few white caps created but the waves breaking. So off we went to find the cetaceans! Spotting many seabirds around us, including a clumsy Atlantic puffin amongst them, we scanned that area, until we spotted a blow veeeery far away. It was a big one, so we thought it would be totally worth the traveling! Almost getting to it, we found a couple of dorsal fins close to us and we saw we had a pod of about 15 white-beaked dolphins coming close! Unfortunately, since we had a tight period to check the big blow, we couldn't stay long with the dolphins, but we still enjoyed them surfing with the swell for a couple of minutes before continuing. When we got to the whale, we saw it was a humpback whale! Going for deeper dives, but never spending too long under the surface, this individual came back close! The blow was very loud and we all could have an amazing look of it many times. It even rolled, showing off the long and white flippers! Wow! In fact, it was not the only species there. Around us, we could also spot 2 minke whales, surfacing and then disappearing again. What an amazing region to be, as the birds were also acting crazy with food! We spent a few more minutes with the whales, before coming back to the harbour and enjoying the sun on our faces.

- Milla Brandão

Report from Eldey: we sailed out this morning with lots of sun shinning on us. We headed to the area where we been lucky this morning, hoping that the animals will be in similar area. That was a good bet because as we got closer we saw a blow of a humpback whale! The whale was busy feeding, coming up to the surface very frequently and few times very close to the boat, just a few meters from the lucky passengers. As we were looking at the humpback whale another species also made a quick appearance, a minke whale.

-Aleksandra Lechwar

Atlantic puffin, Northern gannet, herring gull, black-backed gull, black-headed gull, black guillemot, common guillemot, black-legged kittiwake, Northern fulmar, eider duck