✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 13:00
Report from Elding: Good weather attracted many locals to join us this afternoon. Search for whales took a little bit longer than in the morning but it was definitely not boring. We enjoyed landscape, puffins and even some harbour porpoises till we saw first blows. We came across two humpback whales, resting on the surface side by side. After a while they went for dive and when we were waiting a minke whale came up next to our boat. Whales were difficult to follow as humpbacks were diving really long and minkes were moving fast in all directions. For a while we were just chasing one blow after another but only seeing tails from distance. But wildlife watching is all about being patient, and after a while of waiting we had really close encounter with a humpback whale swimming by the side of our boat. This one was not diving at all and we could see it's whole body through the water. In distance there was another humpback, with a very familiar looking tail - our famous Tattoo.
- Ewa Malinowska
✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | 9:00
Report from EldingII: We had nice sunny Sunday morning to spent at the sea. It was calm if not for northern wind causing our boat to rock from side to side from time to time. Just like previous days all activity was focused farther out, around 45 - 50min of sailing from the harbour. Our first encounter were minke whales, around 3 individuals which were feeding in the area. In distance we could also see much bigger blows (which were belonging to humpback whales) and some splashes. Splashes turned out to be made by a pod of around 8 white-beaked dolphins swimming fast. Our first sightings of humpback whale was difficult as whale went for really long dive. We decided to try our lack somewhere else and it was a good move - at the end of the tour we found breaching humpback whale. Once tried of jumping animal started to slap water surface with it´s flipper and this activity lasted till we had to go back. Just an incredible encounter.
- Ewa Malinowska
Bird species seen today include; atlantic puffin, northern gannet, common guillemot, northern fulmar, kittiwake, artic skua, arctic tern
