Sunday, 13 February 2022

Today we will be operating on our lovely vessel Eldey for the 09:00 & 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
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00

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. Masks are mandatory in areas where keeping 1 meter distance from others is not possible.

Report from Eldey: We were happy to venture out into Faxaflói this morning with an overcast sky, 4-6m/s easterly winds and no swell, probably the calmest seas we have had the last two months. The sail out was the nicest part of the tour with the wind behind it us. Many harbour porpoises visited us during the tour, 2-3 here and there popping up to entertain us. We must have seen at least 30-40 throughout the tour. The birdlife was also abundant, especially in an area about 1 1/2 hours sailing out with lots of razorbills, guillemots, black backed gulls, glaucous gulls, kittiwakes, northern fulmars and gannets. Looked very promising for other cetaceans and we searched for a while but alas no whale or dolphins this morning. We offered our passengers complimentary tickets to to come again for free anytime in the next two years.

- Megan Whittaker

Report from Eldey: The wind started picking up this afternoon and with the snow it became to be quite rough conditions. The sea was still calm making the sailing easy for our experienced captain. When the snow was coming down the visibility was quickly increasing and we had a few beautiful sights on the mountains. We went out looking in many areas and if we found big flocks of birds, sign of the presence of fish, the only cetaceans that we observed during this tour were 10-12 harbour porpoises in small group of 2 individuals or sometimes even alone. A few of those little cetaceans came very close to our boat, maybe curious, which is a bit uncommon for this type of marine mammal, generally shy and elusive. We admired many common guillemot diving in the water and a few gracious northern gannets flying over our heads. During the way back we had to face the wind and the snow coming to us horizontally. Because we didn't found dolphins or whales during this tour we gave complimentary ticket to our passengers allowing them to come back for a new tour in the next two years, in Reykjavik or in Akureyri.

- Miquel Pons

Common guillemot, razorbill, European shag, great cormorant, northern fulmar, black-legged kittiwake, black-backed gull, glaucous gull, herring gull, red throated diver, eider duck.