WEDNESDAY, 1 MARCH 2017

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The weather is really spoiling us here at the moment in Reykjavik, another day with bright blue sky and calm seas. Although the temperatures had dropped below the freezing point, we wrapped ourselves in one of our warm overalls and could enjoy the sun on the top deck for most of our tour. We headed straight towards the area where we had seen dolphins and a minke whale this morning. On our way there we saw briefly 2 harbour porpoises, but continued further out, eager to find some wildlife. Then another whale watching boat told us over the radio that they had seen a blow in the distance and we went to search the described area. However, we couldn't find anything there and soon sailed on. Unfortunately we should encounter a situation like this two more times before it was time for us to return to Reykjavik. Sometimes wildlife can just change like that within half a day. Hopefully next time when our passengers return with their complimentary tickets, that we gave out at the end of the tour, there will be a lot of cetaceans around.

- Barbara Neubarth

Tour at 09:00

Report from Eldey: It was a beautiful morning on sailing out into the bay, it was a bit chilly but that just let us put the warm overalls we have onboard to good use. It took us some time to find the cetaceans today but nevertheless after a ruthless search a minke whale popped up out of the surf! It surfaced a few times, coming up high out of the waters surface to breathe before heading down for a deeper dive, this individual kept us on our toes as it surfaced on one side of the boat and then the other. Then suddenly in the distance we saw large splashes rising from the waters surface, once closer we identified these as the wonderful white-beaked dolphins. These dolphins surfaced multiple times  all around the boat coming up amazingly close at times! Some even leaped and jumped out of the water while we watched! What a wonderful tour!!

- Tess Hudson

Birds seen on todays tours: cormorant, northern fulmar, black-backed gulls, eider duck and guillemot.