Whale diary

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    ✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: A warm, wet blustery day on the bay with the awesome humpback whale that have keep us company and helped us alot the last days in these rouge seas to stay close to the coast. Took us

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    ✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Wohoooo what a tour. I guess no one was expecting this when we left the harbour with strong winds and hail! But what can I say, that's mother nature. The swell had definitely calmed down since yester

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    ✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Another awesome but rough day on the seas. We started the tour with beautiful scenery, the most blue sky we have seen on over a week and a strong warm glow over the city of Reykjavik. We have had a l

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    ✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Yet again, a wonderful day out at sea. With winds having calmed down and turned, the bay was a little bit calmer than the last two days, but the waves were still impressive to those
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    ✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Finally, nice to see some blue sky today on our whale watching tour. The weather was good but near the end of the tour the weather turned to overcast skies, snowing and blustery winds. The sea was rough today and got

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    ✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00

    Report from Eldey and Hafsulan: Looking at the water from land it was a welcomed surprise by how good the visibility actually was once on the water. Even better that we went out with two of our boats today. Not just for the weather,
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    ✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Today was not the best weather day but definitly not the worst either. The rain stayed away for the most part and only the occasionally short period of fine watering. The wind was strong but r

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    ✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Second day of the New Year was very lucky for us. Wind picked up however it was warm south wind and sea was calm. It was mostly cloudy, still some rays of the sun were playing over landscape giving us amazing views.

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    ✔ TOUR ON SCHEDULE | at 13:00

    Report from Eldey and Hafsùlan: Finally it feels like Iceland and were getting temperatures below the freezing point. It is wonderful to have it this cold because only then do we get to enjoy the beautiful snow-capped mountains

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    Tour Status: CANCELLED

    Due to unfavorble weather conditions, our tour at 13:00 has been cancelled. For more infomation or to reschedule your tour, please contact our ticket office by email elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000 

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Our tour for today took us to the well-known port of Hafnarfjörður. The reason was our pursue for the whale that we had seen in previous days. We sailed under strongs winds but despite that, the sea state seemed t

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The wonders of the whales took us today to a different harbour, in this case from Hafnarfjördur. Our attempt to avoid the long swell in the bay was quite successful as we sailed along the south-east part of Faxafloi, e

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    Tour Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Somedays we have a good weather and sometimes not so good. Specially now in winter time we are more weather-cautious and we are always transparent with our expectations about sea state. We knew that today i

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    Tour Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: So it turns out that Christmas is just running a little late. The wind had picked up just a bit more than yesterday so it was a rocky ride for us today. We did stay very close to the Reykjavík peninsula tho

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    Tour Status: ON

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: We first sailed north towards the islands of Kollofjörður in the hope to find our celebrity humpback whale ´viðey´that we have been seeing the last month but unfortunately not the last few days and today was the

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    Tour status: CANCELLED 

    Due to unfavorble weather conditions, our tour at 13:00 has been cancelled. For more infomation or to reschedule your tour, please contact our ticket office by email elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000 

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Merry Christmas to everyone! Our afternoon trip was special as everyone was getting ready for christmas eve, but before that we wanted to sail in order to do the thing that we like the most, whale watching!. We sailed

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: We have had a rainy day with a smooth breeze blowing from the South. Nonetheless, the temperature was above zero so it was "warm" for icelandic standards. We started the tour as we have been doing the last month, saili

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    Tour Status: ON

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Another stunning day with mirror calm seas and incredible light, with -5 degrees celcius the sea was starting to freeze and all the seabirds were resting on top of the frozen water. We sail

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    Tour Status: ON

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: This December weather is just beautiful!! A sentence I said more than once on this tour. The water was mirror like with the first thin layer of ice on it! Just in time for Christmas. We could se