Thursday 15 May, 2025

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR |13:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 10:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR |14:00

Report from Eldey: This morning we sailed out into the same area where we had been spotting whales in the days prior, an active feeding ground with lots of birdlife! And our luck was with us today as we spotted one humpback whale! This whale was taking very shallow dives and once we got closer, it breached twice! We continued to watch this humpback surface and come up again, still taking shallow dives, and then it began breaching again! It did a sequence of about 7 breaches before rolling over and lifting its pectoral fins high up in the air, slapping them on the surface so loud the impact could be heard from all directions. It continued to slap its fins for a few more minutes before continuing on its journey. We then said goodbye to this whale and it said goodbye back by showing us a fluke dive! On the way back to harbour we briefly saw a small pod of 4-5 white-beaked dolphins to end this amazing tour!

-Sigrún Helgu

Report from Eldey: In the afternoon, the wind had grown a little stronger but we were still determined to give our passengers some good sightings! We headed back to where we had had such great success this morning, and soon found a pod of around 5 white-beaked dolphins. They were a little elusive and didn't want to stay around the boat for very long so we continued our journey. After a little while, another boat let us know on the radio that they had seen a humpback whale! We sailed over to see it for ourselves. Once we got there we recognised it as the same individual that we had seen this morning. We were able to spend some time with this whale that had calmed down since our morning tour. We got to watch a few brilliant fluke dives through the waves. While we were waiting, we even saw another pod of 6 white-beaked dolphins calmly swimming down the side of our boat. After a while, the other whale watching boats left and we had the humpback all to ourselves and were able to see a wonderful fluke dive right in front of the boat just before we had to leave to head back to the harbour.

- Emily Erskine

Atlantic puffin, Manx shearwater, northern gannet, northern fulmar, great cormorant, European shag, black legged kittiwake, black and common guillemot, great and lesser black backed gull, arctic tern, razorbill, meadow pippit, ruddy turnstone, oystercatcher, purple sandpiper, arctic skua, herring gull