Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Today we will be operating on our lovely vessel Eldey for the 9:00 and 13:00 Classic Whale Watching tours. Make sure to dress appropriately for the tours as it is always colder on sea than on land.

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 9:00
• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00

Report from Eldey: We set sail again in search of cetaceans. We were going to head to the hot spot where we have seen lots of humpback whales recently. On our way there was a fairly big swell but nothing we couldn't handle. We saw lots of seabirds on our journey including black backed gulls, eider ducks and northern fulmars. The hail and rain then started to fall aggressively for a few minutes. After about an hour of our tour we saw a blow. Suddenly they were everywhere. We found the humpback whales again. Everytime we come to this area there seems to be more, this morning we had 8. Everywhere you looked there was a humpback whale. You could see blows and flukes all around. We got to see each of these surface many times including some coming very close. These are such beautiful animals. We then headed back towards Reykjavik after a really really amazing tour yet again. 

- Rob Hyman

Report from Eldey:  This afternoon we went directly to Hafnarfjordur since the morning tour had already spotted a lot of cetacean activity there. We left the harbour and faced a considerable swell but our captain managed it very well. We saw some sea birds until we reached Hafnarfjordur for example gulls, guillemots, cormorants really close to the boat guiding us to the whales. When we arrived to the spot we were greeted by 6 different humpback whales. Some of them maybe feeding others just cruising by. This is not common at all at for this time of the year, making the crew and the passengers very happy with the sightings. Everyone was able to see amazing fluke dives from all the directions of the boat. After around 1 hour of watching these amazing animals we had to come back to Reykjavik. There was some hail on the return trip and the swell and the wind was a little strong but eventually calmed down again when we arrived back at the harbour.

- Rodrigo Silva 

Northern fulmar, eider duck, Northern gannet, European shag, Great cormorant, black headed gulls, greater and lesser black backed gulls, glaucous gull, red breasted merganser, red throated divers, razorbills, common guillemot, black guillemot and black legged kittiwake.