Sunday, 10 April 2022

Today we will be operating on Þruma RIB for our 10:00 and 14:00 Premium Whale tours and on our lovely vessel Eldey for the 09:00 and 13:00 Classic Whale Watching tours. Make sure to dress appropriately for the tours as it is always colder on sea than on land.

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 10:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 14:00

COVID-19: Keep in mind that passengers and crew are asked to ensure their own hygiene and safety at all times. Washing hands thoroughly with soap and using a hand sanitiser is advised. 

Report from Eldey It was chilly out on the bay this morning so we kept warm with the overalls and hot drinks and after just 40 minutes we saw our first cetacean, a humpback whale feeding amongst flocks of feeding birds; kittiwakes, northern fulmars, herring gulls, eider ducks and Northern gannets mainly. It was an invididual which was swimming erratically. We were lucky enough to see even the fluke (tail) a few times as it went down for a long dive. We even got to see some Atlantic puffins flying super fast as they usually do.

- Estel Sanchez Cami

Report from Eldey: The weather was similar to this morning but with the wind and the swell slightly coming down. During the way out we had the wind in our back so it was quite pleasant sailing. We headed directly to Akranes were the whale was seen this morning. We crossed 2-3 harbour porpoises that very quickly disappeared. We continued and spotted a blow from far away through our binoculars. We approached the area and saw many birds, some northern gannets and northern fulmars gliding very close to our boat. We saw the blow again, and immediately another one more on the left. In total there was 3 humpback whales in the area. We decided to get closer to one that was in front of us and saw a nice fluke dive. After a while we felt like another individual was easier to observe so we followed it. The animal was going for short dives, coming back to the surface to take one big breath and quickly going for a deep dive. Those whales were feeding in this area and we were very lucky to see one of them surfacing sometimes to only a few meters from our vessel. It was a great sighting with northern gannet plunge-diving. After a last fluke dive we went back home followed by fulmars gliding on the air behind us. A great tour!

- Miquel Pons

Great cormorant, northern fulmar, black-legged kittiwake, black-headed gulls, lesser black-backed gull, glaucous gull, herring gull, eider duck, northern gannets, black guillemots, common guillemot, Atlantic puffins.