Whale diary

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    tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: The calm seas continued into our last tour of the day with another tour of flat oceans. Though because Icelandic weather is rarely perfect we had to endure a lot of rain this afternoon, it is a good job the whales are wet enough already

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: Though the first tours were very similar to each other this once would prove to be very different and really show how nature can change massively within hours. It took us an incredibly long time to reach any animals on this tour but afte

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: This was the tour with the best weather as it really calmed down from the earlier tours that day. This would turn out to be the best tour of the day not just because of the weather though as the tour was dominated by two spectacular&nbsp

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    Unfortunately the tours at 13, 14 and 17 o'clock have been canceled due to rough weather. Please contact our ticket office for further information at +354 519 5000 or elding@elding.is

    Tour at 10:00

    Report from Elding: It was very windy this morning w

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: After the amazing day we had been having we were in a hurry to get out lest we missed something. So we quickly me our way in to Faxaflói bay. Only about 10 minutes some eagle-eyed passengers spotted two harbour porpoises 

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: The Cold winds and choppy seas greeted us as we left Reykjavík harbour again this afternoon. We decided to head towards the area where we'd spotted Þröstur the humpback whale earlyer today. On our way to that a

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: On the last trip of the day we left the harbour in search of cetaceans in an optimistic mood. We traveled for a while, trying to find some of the marine mammals that we saw on the earlier tours. Unfortunately none were seen again, so we

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: On the last tour of the day, we decided to head out straight to where a humpback whale was sighted before. It took quiet a while just to get to the area, but going there was definitely a good decision. Before we even reached the area of

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: This evening we still had very good sea conditions as we were traveling out into the Faxaflói bay. Again we went straight towards the area where the last humpback whale was sighted. On our way passengers as well as crew saw harbour porpo

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: The day had been a success already but on this tour we had the pleasure of some good weather for a change! The wind had really calmed down and we had a very smooth journey this afternoon. The trip started out just like the others when ou

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: Passengers had it rough on this trip ! Even if the tour began quietly, sea conditions got worse when we were in the main whale watching area. Our nerves were tested in quite shaky conditions and, even if we had to count some casualties,

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Eldey: As we were leaving the harbour in Reykjavik, we already realized the increased wind speed and with it the strong swell, which was not able to shake our optimistic mood for this whale watching tour. After traveling west for a while we spo

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: In the afternoon we decided to go straight to the location where we spotted an humpback whale last. While traveling out of the bay we had a quick encounter with a minke whale swimming towards Reykjavik as well as jump

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had picked up quite a bit on the evening tour. We went out to search for the humpback, but the first cetacean of the tour was a pod of 8-10 white-beaked dolphins feeding in a really lively area. We had thousa

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had slowed down from this morning and the wind direction had changed so we sailed out in absolutely perfect conditions for whale watching. It didn't take us long to find a minke whale, actually 3 mi

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: Quite choppy on the water this evening but as it was the last midnight tour our passengers came anyway. Once we were out though it wasn´t so bad and the sunset, full moon over reykjavik and the wildlife made up for it all. The flocks

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: With great sadness we set off on my last midnight tour of the season. Conditions were perfect as we made our way on to ther bay with little wind and clear skies. Knowing a Humpback whale had been spotted by the b

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    Tour at 20:30 

    Report from Hafsúlan: A tour unlike any other, a dream lived. A long but beautiful sail offshore. The sun lowered in the sky shining light on Snæfellsjökull 120km away. As the sun set the skies changed into many beautiful colours and the clouds chang

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: An engaging orange landscape welcomed us when we left Reykjavik at the sunset, it was hard to not feel enthusiast while sailing ! We quickly came across a minke whale, that seemed very shy at the beginning. It was tak

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: Less wind than in the afternoon and the sun peaking out from the clouds, set a nice mood for this midnight tour. We set course towards the humpback whale far out in the bay. It took nearly two hours before we located the whale. Before