✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00
Report from Eldey: Embracing the wind and off we go again. After this morning´s tour, the weather got a little more windy, but not enough to keep us in port. And after only 45 minutes of sailing, we were able to encounter the first humpback whale. The animal was slowly moving around us, not being bothered, showing us how to feed so close to the surface. After around 0 to 30 m inutes we moved on, because we could see more blows in the distance and wanted to discover them. It took us about 10 minutes to encounter another individual, which seemed a little lazy at first, but then beautifully ´fluked´us goodbye. In the end we encountered at least four more individuals, and got to see the rare behaviour of two humpbacks feeding together, surfacing and diving in unison. What a treat that was. And with that and the wind picking up and blowing into our faces, we went back into the harbour. Let´s hope those beautiful creatures will stick around for our next tour.
-Christina Winkler
✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 9:00
Report from Eldey: Waking up this morning we were all already excited to go out on the ocean once more. It turned out to be the right feeling we had had. After roughly 50 minutes of sailing towards Keflavík, we spotted what we believed to be the blow of a humpback whale. Turns out it was a pair of humpback whales accompanied with a minke whale. They were all surface feeding amidst hundreds of seabirds including numerous different species. It is incredible to see how all types of wildlife come together in these food-rich areas. Even some of our first atlantic puffins were amongst the crowd. The whales surfaced frequently, lifted their tails and also performed some lunge feeding. And just as we decided to make our way back to the Old Harbour, they decided to surface within less than 10 meters of our boat. It made all of our hearts race a bit faster.
- Sabrina Voswinkel
Birds seen on today's tours: atlantic puffin, northern gannet, northern fulmar, common guillemot, cormorant, herring gull, greater skua, glaucous gull, eider duck, black-backed gull, black-headed gull.
We are sailing from the Old Harbour in Reykjavík today at 9:00 & 13:00. The wind is picking up a bit on the bay and if you are prone to seasickness we have some seasickness tablets available at our ticket office. Make sure to dress warmly and make use of our warm overalls as it is always colder on sea than on land. For more information contact us by email elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000.
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