Thursday, 13 March 2014

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed from Keflavík today in order to sail with the wind and make the tour as comfortable as possible, there was still some swell in the sea so while we were sailing with the swell on our side we had an exciting start. This calmed down later as we sailed with the wind and swell, we then spotted lots of splashing ahead of us and went to investigate. There were many Northern Gannets divebombing the water and made for a great start, as there were no cetaceans we moved on. After a while we managed to see some White-Beaked Dolphins in the area, there was a small pod of around 5 dolphins which came very close to the boat but didn´t stay for long. This would only get better though as we then found 2 Humpback Whales! Each was travelling on its own so we could look at one whale before moving on to the next. One whale was very relaxed and came within 10 metres of the boat when it was at the surface. By this point we were quite close to Reykjavík so we ended the tour back in the harbour.

- Jack Ball

Birds seen on todays tour include: Northern Gannet, Northern Fulmar, Black Guillemot, Kittiwake, Cormorant, Eider Duck, Glaucous Gull, Lesser Black-Backed Gull.

Unfortunately due to unfavourable sea conditions we have decided to cancel the 9am morning whale watching today. Decision regarding the 1pm tour will be made later on in the day. Please call +354 519 5000, send us an email at elding@elding.is or stop by our office for more information or if you have any problems.