Sunday, 23 November 2014

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: The weather was similar to yesterday, not so windy and quite calm water. We sailed out to the area where we had seen the dolphins on the yesterday tour. When we were arriving we saw big flocks of sea birds flying around and we knew that was a good sign there was a lot of fish in the area.  We soon spotted splashes in some distance so we decided to travel towards it, when we got closer we saw these were white-beaked dolphins jumping up in the air. When we got closer we saw there were many groups of dolphins in the area, probably around 6 different pods. They were spread over a big area so it was always easy to spot dolphins where ever we went. Sometimes we saw them jumping and sometimes we were lucky enough to get them coming towards us and swim around the boat and under it! We sailed further out to check if we could find something else but we couldn’t but we stopped again with the dolphins on the way back and got a really good look at them.

- Sigurlaug

Birds seen on today's tour include: black-backed gulls, glaucous gulls, iceland gulls, eider ducks, common guillemots, razorbills, fulmars, northern gannets and kittiwakes.