✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 13:00
Report from Eldey: Still windy but the wind had managed to blow away some clouds and give way for us to see more of our wonderful mountain landscape that surrounds Faxabay. Many passengers joined us this afternoon, armed for the cold in our overalls and ready to help spotting after we explained how looking for whales and dolphins works. We sailed another part of the bay from this morning, to see if possibly the animals were staying more in the western part today. After about half of our trip, we spotted a few black dorsal fins within the waves which turned out to be those of 3 white-beaked dolphins. We tried to keep up with their random movements, but it was very tricky and after some minutes we unfortunately lost them. We continued searching, crossing over to the eastern side of the bay, but were unlucky in spotting further animals. Complimentary tickets were handed out to all passengers to come join us again free of charge in the next two years.
-Viivi Pöyhönen
✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 9:00
Report from Eldey: Chilly winds were blowing from South East in our backs making it still a rather comfortable sail as we headed out in Faxafloi bay this morning. Naturally, we provided everyone with warm overalls. There was quite a bit of white-capped waves forcing us to sharpen our eyes for spotting wildlife in between the waves. After about one hour of sailing we saw a dorsal fin pop up in front of us: a white beaked dolphin! But it was alone which is very unusual for such a social species so we were sure that the rest of the pod would be somewhere nearby. And we were right: soon enough two more dorsal fins popped up joining the first dolphin. It was a small pod of 3 white-beaked dolphins feeding in the area where clearly was some fish in the water since a couple of northern gannets were also plunge-diving very closeby. The dolphins were circling around the boat, swimming underneath and also jumping out of the water, a behaviour that is often observed in rougher seas. It was a great encounter but of a short. We definitely want to show the passengers more and therefore we offered them complimentary tickets to come again on a tour for free within the next two years.
- Sabrina Voswinkel
Birds seen today: black-legged kittiwake, northern fulmar, northern gannet, eider duck, black-headed gull, common guillemots, glaucous gull.
We are sailing from the Old Harbour in Reykjavík today, it is quite windy out on the bay to day so we are expecting some movement on the boat. If your are prone to sea sickness we have sea sickness tablets available. Make sure to dress warmly and make use of our warm overalls as it is always colder on sea than on land. For more information contact us by email elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000.
