Tour at 13:00
Report from Hafsúlan: we went out from Reykjavik and found the sea conditions to have gone a bit better from the morning. We looked around until some dorsal fins showed up; this turned out to be 3-4 white-beaked dolphins and to our delight we found that there were 8-10 further away. We followed those guys for a while but it must be said that we have had easier dolphins, perhaps they simply had something better to do, which would have been feeding, judging by what we saw on the fishfinder. As we were making our way back to the city, some 2-3 harbour porpoises made a lightning-quick show and were then gone and finally a further small group (5-6) of dolphins showed up briefly. A good tour but sadly the last one in probably two days because of yet another storm coming in...
- Baldur Thorvaldsson
Tour at 09:00
Report from Hafsúlan: yesterday we ended in Hafnarfjörður and so we began the first tour of the day there with the aim to sail to Reykjavik and search for cetaceans along the way. We began in reasonably good sea but there was little visibility for the first hour or so, only 500-600 meters sometimes. We did see 1 harbour porpoise and a bit further on 2-3 others but all were just seen a few times and then they were gone almost as soon as they had appeared. Perhaps the delight of the tour was a common seal that we saw rather far from land but it would have been nicer to have him closer and for longer. Finally one dorsal fin popped up suddenly and we stopped to look for it, knowing it had to be white-beaked dolphins, but it was not seen again and as we were running out of time, we had to continue to Reykjavik. This tour could not go down in the books as a successful one in terms of sightings so we gave every passenger a complimentary return ticket which can be used for another whale-watching tour within the next two years.
- Baldur Thorvaldsson
Birds seen on today's tours: northern gannet, arctic skua, northern fulmar, glaucaus gull, black-backed gull, black-legged kittiwake, eider duck.
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