Tuesday, 26 November 2024

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 13:00

All whale watching tours are on schedule today from Reykjavík! Remember to dress according to weather and feel free to borrow our thermal overalls if needed!

Report from Eldey: The big red boat left the harbour under a cloudy sky, a bit of rain and a bit of wind. We were expecting not to go too far from the shore since we have been pretty lucky with the previous tours, so we stayed around the islands of Reykjavík and it paid off! Soon we saw the profile of a humpback whale "behind" Videy! At first, it seemed quite shy, doing long dives and swimming for quite a distance, but our fishfinder said there was a huge school of fish just beneath us and so we stayed put. It paid off once more, the gentle giant popped up right next to us and came even closer. From there we could observe its white pectoral fins and after arching its back, the huge fluke! We stayed with this individual for around 30 minutes before going for a sail to other places. We ended up in the harbour after a few swells started to swell around.

- Pedro Teixeira

Report from Eldey: We set off and this time it wasn't raining (yay). We knew where to head as we had been lucky in the same place for a few days in a row now. Within 30 minutes we had reached the spot and yet again there it was, a humpback whale! We got to watch this whale for a lot of this tour to begin with it was logging and never showing the fluke. But as the tour progressed the dives became longer and the dives started to become fluke dives. It would move quite a long way between dives too. Whilst watching this whale we also had a very quick look at a harbour seal. After a great afternoon and the sun starting to set we headed home to end this day.

- Rob Hyman

Eider duck, black legged kittiwake, black headed gull, glaucous gull, iceland gull, black backed gull, black guillemot