Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Tour at 13:00

The swell had gone a lot down since this morning. After sailing for about 40 minutes a crew member spotted a blow from a whale, but it most likely went for a deeper dive since we didn't spot it again. Really close to where the blow was we spotted a flock of feeding birds so we headed that way, we spotted quite many flocks of feeding birds but never a whale close by. Then out of the blue away from the birds we spotted a Minke Whale, it only surfaced twice but it was nice to see that they were there in between the waves. When we had only about 30 minutes left until we would reach the harbour we spotted some White-beaked Dolphins. They were really calm, most likely feeding since the Arctic Tern was always flying there just above them diving down to feed.

 

Tour at 09:00

The wind was blowing from the West today giving us a rather big swell out there, but not too bad. We had been sailing for about 40 minutes when we suddenly spotted a Minke Whale only about 10 meters away from the boat, it then surfaced couple of times again not so faraway This Minke Whale was rather big and we are guessing that it was about 10 meters long. We then headed on after we had lost it and soon we spotted some Harbour Porpoises. On the way back to the harbour we stopped by Akurey to take a look at the Puffins.