Whale diary

Unfortunately we have to cancel our whale watching tour due to unfavourable weather conditions. Please contact our ticket office for further information, +354 5195000 or elding@elding.is

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Report from Eldey: When we left the harbour in Reykjavík this afternoon, it had started to snow again, and the snow should accompany us for more than half of the tour. Our passengers got a taste of the Icelandic winter weather today. We were searching for

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Report from Eldey: Today was colder than last few days but it was not as windy like yesterday. The swell was not as high like it had been but still there were some white caps around. We sailed to one of our best sighting area that we could not get to with

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Report from Eldey and Elding: It was a very busy morning today, during the night we an abundance of snow that covered the cars and streets with at least 5 inchs of snow if not more in some places. The morning was spend clearing as much of the snow as possi

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Report from Eldey: It had  snowed a lot but fortunately it had cleared up before we sailed out on the bay. The weather was good, almost no wind but there was still high swell out on the bay since the storm yesterday. After about 50 minutes we spotted

Unfortunately we have to cancel our whale watching tour today due to heavy winds at sea. Please contact our ticket office for further information, 003545195000 or elding@elding.is

All the best. the Elding team

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Report from Eldey: A drizzily day on the bay, the swell was less than yesterday but still taking it´s time to calm down after the storm on Monday. In the harbour this morning was a small harbour seal but was no to be seen as we sailed out of the harbour, s

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Report from Eldey: Finally the wind calmed down and we could venture out in the bay. The swell was still quite high and caused a few green faces during the tour. We saw lots of seabirds and 3 pods of harbour porpoises (maybe between 2-3 an

Unfortunately we have to cancel our whale watching tour today due to heavy winds at sea. Please contact our ticket office for further information, 003545195000 or elding@elding.is

All the best, the Elding team

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Report from Eldey: Today we went out from Reykjavík in search for cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises). It was some long rolling swells and a cloudy sky with occasional rain showers. We sailed towards southwest scanning the area thoroughly while we t

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Report from Eldey: This is why we love going out from Grindavík! A low setting sun and some long rolling swells were the conditions on todays tour. Just outside the harbour we came across 3 large pods of harbour porpoises, each pod contain

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Report from Eldey: Due to the great success in Grindavík we ventured out from there again, the weather was more challenging with snow storms passing through and tough sea conditions, which got worse than expected on the way home. After 40 minutes of sailin

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Report from Eldey: Another humpback day at Grindavík! We have been getting more luck wit animals at Grindavík than in Reykjavík so we sailed again from there. It was absolutly freezing but the sea conditions were almost perfect. We soon sa

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Report from Eldey: Like the previous days, we sailed out from Grindavík today, a small fishing town located on the south coast of Iceland. We had just started to sail east along the Reykjanes Peninsula when we spotted a big blow behind us. So we turned aro

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Report from Eldey: Like the previous days we decided to go from Grindavík today. We sailed out into a chill northwestern wind. The complimentary overalls that we offer all passengers came to good use and kept us warm. The sailing continued towards the west

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Report from Eldey: A very windy day today, northerly cold winds that chilled us to the bones. A lot of our passengers kept warm with our floatation overalls, which we offer free of charge on board our vessels. We sailed today out from Grindavik in the hope

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Report from Eldey: We sailed out from Grindavík today so we first had to drive for about 50 minutes to get to there. This was a beautiful winter day. It was really cold but not so windy and quite strong underswell rocked our boat up and down but luckily fo

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Report from Eldey: Our tour started in Grindavík today since we were hoping to have better luck with cetaceans on the south coast of Iceland than in the last few days in Faxaflói. After only 20 min we encountered a small pod of 3-4 harbour porpoise

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Report from Eldey: Once again it was beautiful day on the bay, sun shining, mountains with a fresh layer of snow and the sunset at the end of the tour was breath-taking. We searched a large area of the bay and saw quite a few clusters of feeding of seabird

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Report from Eldey: A snowy beginning to our tour as the passengers made their way to the whale watching centre, a converted capelin fishing boat that now acts as our gift shop/cafe/museum and waiting area. Passengers enjoyed the information boards and Stev