Tuesday, 24 March 2026

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 9:00, 13:00

Today's Whale Watching tours from Reykjavík are on schedule! Remember to dress according to weather and feel free to borrow our thermal overalls if needed!

Report from Eldey: It was a grey kinda day, with a big period swell and a bit of snow. Nothing a good hot chocoloate would't fix. As we were coming out of the harbour we spotted a pod of 6 to 7 white-beaked dolphins right by the alfa buoy! A lucky strike, since they were friendly and were swimming around the boat and on each side. After a few minutes with them, we started heading further out. It took us about 30 minutes more to spot a few harbour porpoises that were too shy to follow. Another half an hour later, we started turning back, but while I was sipping a fresh hot cocoa, I saw a dark body! It was quite big, so we went there to investigate and it was in fact a humpback whale!! Another lucky strike! We saw it arch its back a few times and in the end a really nice fluke that everybody saw and said "awww...". That's it, back to the harbour, late but very happy.

- Pedro Teixeira

Report from Eldey: We sailed out, excited to see what else was out there after a successful morning. The seas and winds were still calm as a few snowflakes still fell down. We first got a call from a friendly cargo ship, saying they saw some dorsal fins nearby. Upon closer inspection it appeared to be a big pod of around 40 White-beaked dolphins! We then quickly got distracted by a travelling Humpback whale, passing by the area. The tour had already started of strong but we were then in for a big surprise! More north of us a pod of around 10 Orcas were busy close to Hvalfjörður! This lead to a lot of excitement from both crew and passengers as we tagged along with the individuals as they spread out across the area. We even had a few really close encounters with one of the large males of the pod! This concluded an epic afternoon at sea and we sailed back with big smiles on our faces.

Milan Vansteelandt

Northern gannet, Northern fulmar, great black-backed gull, lesser black-backed gull, razorbill, black guillemot, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser, eider duck, glaucous gull, great cormorant, black-legged kittiwake