wednesday, 15 April 2015

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: the weather had not changed much since the morning so we again got really good sea conditions. we went to where we had seen the dolphins in the morning tour but on the way to there a passengers saw animal coming up to the surface. we stopped and looked around us but were never able to find anything. another passenger thought he saw a dolphin so we stopped again but sadly we were never able to get a better look at them. we got a call from another whale watching boat that they had seen a minke whale but the same thing happened, when we arrived we were never able to see it. we were definitely not lucky with nature on this tour but we could still enjoy being on the bay in this beautiful weather and we got to see few puffins on the way. because we didn't see any cetaceans on the tour we offered all of our passengers complimentary tickets. 

-Sigurlaug Sigurðardóttir

Tour at 09:00 

Report from Hafsúlan: the bay absolutely beautiful this morning, it was sunny, the wind was blowing softly from south and definitely didn't feel as cold as yesterday. We went to the area where we found the humpback on yesterdays tours. after looking all around in that area we without seeing any signs of cetaceans we got a call from another whale watching boat, they had found a pod of dolphins. When we got closer to them we saw these were 4 white beaked dolphins. They seemed very calm and it was very easy to follow them as they surfaced regularly and even came often really close to the boat.  

-Sigurlaug Sigurðardóttir

Birds seen on today's tours included: eider ducks, long-tailed ducks, fulmars, gannets, kittiwakes, common guillemots, european shags, iceland gulls, glaucous gulls, black headed gulls, puffins and razorbills.