Thursday, 7 April 2016

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It was much windier in the afternoon than on morning tour. Fortunately for us the find was coming from south east so we got good shelter from land in our main sighting area these days. It didnt take us long to spot our first blow of a humpback whale, this individual was further north so we decided to just keep on going towards our sighting areas in south. When we got closer to where we had the sightings on the morning tour we spotted our second humpback. When we got within 200 meters distance of the animal it breached! We followed this individuals for few more minutes and then decided to keep on going south where we spotted many blows. When we got closer we saw that there were 5 different individuals in that area! one of them breached only 100 meters in front of our boat! On our way back to land we spotted two other humpbacks but we didnt see if those were the same ones that we saw on our way out.

-Sigurlaug Sigurðardóttir 

Tour at 09:00

Report from Eldey: It was a sunny morning with some wind from southeast. We could enjoy the sun in our faces and a beautiful view as we set sail out of the harbour. We had some long swells coming in from the west but the boat was very stable and didn't rock much. Not difficult guessing we were heading for Hafnarfjörður and the humpback whales! Today we found 6 individuals feeding in the area, at least 2 we recognize from previous days by the black and white pattern underneath the fluke (tail) and they have been in the area now for some time. We also had a very big pod of white-beaked dolphins today! 60-70 individuals were feeding in a rather small area with one of the humpbacks joining them. Very cool to see the two species close together! At one time the dolphins made a stampede towards the west racing probably after some fish, so fascinating to see! We ended the tour by having four humpbacks around us giving us best possible views! Amazing morning out in Faxa bay.

- Marcus Bergström

Bird species seen on todays tours include: northern fulmar, glaucous gull, greater black-backed gull, lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, Iceland gull, kittiwake, black-headed gull, grayleg goose and eider duck.