Tour at 13:00
As we sailed out from Grindavík we could not imagine what we had coming. After 15 minutes of sailing in sunshine and calm sea, we spotted the first blow. It turned out to be a Humpback whale, rather shy in the beginning but after a few minutes it started to let us in closer. This individual had a rather special fluke so it was clear to us that we had not encountered it before. After a while we went on and it only took a few minutes before we saw the next blow, in fact not one, but three. There were three humpbacks swimming side by side and enjoying a nice buffet of capelin along with gannets and other seabirds. At this time we had seen some more blows further east so again we sailed and again we had to stop because two more whales crossed our path. One of them was another humpback but the other one gave out a larger blow than we are used to from humpback whales so we took a closer look. To our surprise it turned out to be a Fin whale. This is not an everyday event for us; in fact we have not seen a Fin whale on a whale watching tour from Reykjavík for six years. We stayed with it for some time and took many pictures of it witch we will show to a whale specialist, Gísli Víkingsson, at the marine research institute of Iceland, just to confirm it was a Fin whale. While we took a look at the Fin whale we saw blows from three more whales even further east of us so at least 8 humpback whales were in the aria as well as the Fin whale. We docked back in Grindavík with a bunch of smiling people.