Sunday, 28 July 2024

Today we will be operating our Classic Whale Watching on our lovely vessel Eldey at 9:00 and 13:00 and our just as lovely Hafsúlan at 11:00 and 15:00. Our Premium Whale Watching tour will operate on Þruma I-V at 10:00.

Unfortunately we have had to cancel our classic whale watching at 17:00 and 20:30 and our premium whale watching at 12:00, 14:00, 16:00 and 20:00 today.

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 9:00, 11:00, 13:00, 15:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 17:00, 20:30
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 10:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 20:00

Report from Eldey : Today was a stormy summer morning in Faxafloi. We left Reykjavik under a light rain and a bit of swell. Upon arriving in our preferred area, we quickly found our first humpback whale ! It was shallow diving and feeding, sometimes disappearing for a few minutes and surface very close to our boat quite a few times. It had an unknown structure attached to its dorsal fin, which was quite interesting. As we decided to start looking for something else, we found another humpback whale just a couple hundred meters away from the first one ! This individual was much bigger, and was feeding and deep diving regularly, showing us the beautiful patterns on its fluke. It would sometimes half roll on one side, probably while feeding, which was very cool to see. As we were observing it, a traveling minke whale quickly passed by our boat, but it only surfaced a couple of times before disappearing. We started sailing back to Reykjavik super satisfied of today´s sightings, despite a heavy rain towards the end that made everyone happy to warm up again in our saloon and treat themselves with a hot chocolate. 
 

- Olivia Garcia 

Report from Hafsula: We set off with the wind behind us meaning it was quite nice on the way out with only a little bit of well. It was only a raining a little bit too. We sailed past all the boats coming back from the earlier tours and then after about 50 minutes we spotted a big blow from a feeding humpback whale ahead of us. It was coming up very regularly to the surface and going for fluke dives. It tail slapped once too which was really cool. Then after this it started to blow lots of bubbles when feeding, which helped us to spot it before it came up. A few times it surfaced with it´s mouth slightly open too. It then started to appear very randomly including a few times really close to our boat. We had a great time watching this whale before heading back to the harbour battling against the strong winds. 

- Rob Hyman

Report from Eldey - We embarked on our whale-watching adventure this morning, setting sail into a sea of fog and light rain. The weather was cool and damp, but our spirits were high with anticipation. Even from miles away, we could see the majestic humpback whale as it breached a few times, its massive body rising out of the water and crashing back down with a splash. As we got closer, the whale continued to put on a spectacular show, tail slapping and being very active on the surface, allowing us to have an amazing look. The experience was surreal, with the mist and rain adding an ethereal quality to the sight of this magnificent creature in its natural habitat.

-Aleksandra Lechwar

Report from Hafsula: We went with the wind on the way out so there was only a little bit of swell. It was also a little rainy. We sailed for 45 minutes to the same spot as previous tour. We spotted a big blow from a feeding humpback whale ahead of us. We even saw there were 2 whales but far from each other. Then suddenly one of them did some pec slaps, tail slaps and a breach! We went to this one which was the same we saw on the 1100 tour too! It was coming up very regularly to the surface and then just right there at 12 o'clock two peduncle throws! Everyone massively enjoyed it.  It came really close too meaning we could see the white pectoral fins through the water to help us see when it would come up. It was then was time to say goodbye; we had a great time watching this beautiful whale and off we went home.

- Claudia Albir

Northern gannets, Atlantic puffins, lesser black backed gulls, northern fulmars, Arctic terns