THURSDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2017

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: This afternoon put us through all different weather states imaginable. We started off under a clouded sky, but soon had the sun warming our faces for a while combined with gorgeous rainbows in the distance. Then the wind picked up and we had a few minutes of quite heavy rain before the sun was shining again. The weather continued changing throughout which resulted in many more fantastic rainbows. At the beginning when we were sailing out, we saw 3 harbour porpoises surfacing really close and could then follow them with our eyes just directly underneath the water surface. A great beginning of our tour. Unfortunately these were the only cetaceans we saw on today's trip. Therefore of course we offered our passengers complimentary tickets to try again and look for wildlife in the bay. Spring is coming and we are looking forward towards having our minkes and humpbacks back in Faxafloi.

- Barbara Neubarth

Tour at 09:00

Report from Eldey: This morning we has some of the most fantastic lighting, all the clouds were highlighted with a stunning pink and golden glow. It was slightly milder than previous days but the wind was still slightly nippy. It took us a long time to search for the cetaceans today but there was a huge abundance of bird life including razorbill, fulmar and the stars of the show the northern gannets. Who were showing off by plunge diving en masse, then bobbing up to the surface and trying to swallow the wriggling fish they had just caught. After a bit more searching a small pod of 3-4 white-beaked dolphins surfaced. We were able to watch these animals for some time, they surfaced only 5 metres from the boat and the water was so lovely and clear you could even see them swimming under the surface. Once even suddenly leaped out of the water giving us a wonderful look at its beautiful patterned body. What a wonderful encounter! It was then a very smooth sail back to Reykjavik with the wind in our backs.  

- Tess Hudson

Bird species on todays tours: eider duck, northern fulmar, northern gannet, cormorant, european shags, kittiwake, lesser-black backed gull, icelandic gull, great northern diver, common guillemot and razorbill. .