✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00
Report from Eldey and Hafsùlan: Finally it feels like Iceland and were getting temperatures below the freezing point. It is wonderful to have it this cold because only then do we get to enjoy the beautiful snow-capped mountains surrounding the bay.
We sailed out with two boats today, Eldey and Hafsùlan, and decided to head into opposite directions in order to cover a larger area of the bay. So while Hafsùlan sailed along the Reykjaness peninsula, Eldey searched along the Snæfellsness peninsula. For the first half of our tour we were enjoying the wind in our backs, which quickly changed as Eldey decided to cross the bay and go to search the area around Hafnarfjöður. This is where we had been seeing a humpback whale in the last week. After some minutes of searching, Hafsùlan reported us they had an encounter with a pod of white-beaked dolphins. However, by the time we had reached Hafsùlan, the dolphins had left the area and clearly didn't want to play around our boats today. And while we continued our search even half an hour longer than we usually stay out on the water, we did not encounter any cetaceans. Of course everyone was offered a complimentary ticket to come out again for free and hope for mother nature and her whales to be in a showing mood. Spirits were high the entire tour and I have no doubts everyone will come back for another trip.
-Sabrina Voswinkel
Birds seen during the tour: eider duck, great cormorant, european shag, northern gannet, black-backed gull, iceland gull.
We are sailing from the Old Harbour in Reykjavík today. The wind will pick up in the afternoon so the sea might be a bit rough. We do have sea sickness tablets at the ticket office for those who wish, and be sure to make use of our warm overalls to keep dry.
For more information please contact our ticket office by email at elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000
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