Sunday, 22 October 2023

We will be going out on our lovely vessel Eldey for the 9:00 and 13:00 Classic Whale Watching tour. Make sure to dress appropriately for the tours as it is always colder on sea than on land.

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 9:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 10:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 14:00

Report from Eldey: We sailed out on lovely calm waters but there was a bitter cold this morning. Within minutes of leaving the harbour we spotted 2 harbour porpoises who both surfaced a lot on our left making it a great start to the tour. We then got further out and started to see more cetaceans. We saw 3-5 minke whales including one that came a bit closer. We then also saw a pod of 3 white beaked dolphins. There was a smaller juvenile in this pod sticking very close to it´s mother. These guys came really close to us and even jumped out the water. They gave us a really great show. 

- Rob Hyman

Report from Eldey: We again set sail on these calm waters, but to make it even better the sun had started to come through giving us some blue skies. This afternoon we set off in a slightly different direction to see what else the bay could show us. Not too long into the tour we spotted some dorsal fins. They belonged to a pod of 5 white beaked dolphins. These dolphins were milling. They moved very slowly and even came quite close to us a few times. As they moved so slowly it gave us a really nice look at them when they surfaced. We then moved on and saw another curved dorsal fin, this belonged to a minke whale. This one was moving very fast all over the place. It even made a few splashes as it surfaced, perhaps it was lunge feeding. After this we moved onto see another 2-3 minkes. One of these came very close to us giving us a great view as it surfaced a few times. We then headed home in the sun after a really nice afternoon.

- Rob Hyman

Sooty shearwater, eider duck, northern fulmar, common guillemot, glaucous gull, black backed gull, herring gull