Tour at 13:00
Report from Hafsúlan: we went out under more cloudy skies than yesterday but the sea conditions were much better, although they had started to worsen slightly towards the end. Yesterday we started off north-west but today we went west and enjoyed a delightful view of the metropolitan area and the snow-covered mountains over on the Reykjanes Peninsula as we scanned the sea surface for cetaceans. A decent amount of birds but no cetaceans; that is until we noticed two dorsal fins some 250-300 meters away. Recognising them as belonging to white-beaked dolphins, we went there and found a small group (5-6) of the most commonly seen dolphin around Iceland. Those guys seemed for the most part not in a particular show mood but they were not elusive either; usually swimming rather slowly but steadily all together in one direction, of course taking the odd turn and disappearing in between along with splitting up sometimes. They were not many but late winter usually sees super-pods forming when food becomes more abundant in the bay and needless to say we at Elding look forward to them. May the first one be seen soon!
- Baldur Thorvaldsson
Birds seen on today's tours: eider duck, northern fulmar, common guillemot, northern gannet, glaucous gull, kittiwake, black-backed gull, european shac.