WEDNESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2018

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Increased wind from the east made a little colder on this afternoon's tour however it did not make it any less beautiful. The winter's warm evenning glow spread over the mountains and shining rays through the clouds. We had a nice variety of seabirds throughout the tour that drew our attention whilst we searchered for larger sea mammals. We traveled to the same area as the minkes from the morning tour but instead we found 3 killer whales. Young male, young female with possibly her calf. They seemed to be teaching the young one to hunt as they terrorised the resting swimming eider ducks, flying off all of a sudden asthe orca's stealthily swam beneath. It was a strange behaviour they were exhibiting and it was ony the sight of errandic breaching dolphins that gave us the suspision these were probably marine mammal eating killer whales, that we don't see very often around Iceland.One killer whale even had tooth rake marks on its body, maybe from being boustrious with other killer whales. Herring eating killer whales are the main ones here. We will do some research and hopefully find out more information about them soon that we will post on our social media. We then went looking for the dolphins but they were long gone, We sailed home and had a stunning rainbow formed with our smiles. 

- Megan Whittaker

Tour at 09:00

Report from Eldey: What an incredible start of the day. There was very little wind and there were very small waves out there this morning. The sky looked rather imaginary, as the sun slowly came out. It did take us more then one hour to find something, but when we did, boy oh boy was it a treat. We had 2 minke whales, one adult and one juvenile, surfacing around the boat for a good half an hour. We were lucky enough to observe these gentle giants as close as 10 m away from us. It was truly remarkable. Definitely one of the prettiest tours this winter season.

-Lucas Heinrich

Birds seen during our tours: eider duck, european cormorant, great shag, glaucous gull, iceland gull, great black-backed gull, black guillemot, common guillemot, northern fulmar, northern gannet, sooty shearwaters, black-legged kittiwake, black headed gulls.

We are sailing today from the Old Harbour in Reykjavík at 9am and 1pm. If you need any information please feel free to contact us by calling +354-519-5000, sending an e-mail to elding@elding.is or simply by dropping by our tickets office!