Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The weather was much better on this afternoons tour where we even saw some breaks of sunshine through the clouds. After less than 30 minutes we saw our first pod of white-beaked dolphins which included a juvenile. We fol

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The swell continued into the afternoon and we had quite a rollercoaster ride heading out into Faxa bay. We only had light rain, but unfortunately that was enough to decrease the visibility so that we could not see much of the beautiful l

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: We sailed out and it had clouded over a bit from this morning but the sun was still shining. After sailing for about 25 minutes a large pod of 9-12 white-beaked dolphins were spotted. It was a beautiful encount

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: After such a nice tour this morning, we left the harbour in high spirit, eager to see more. It was not as sunny as on the previous tour, but still the temperature was nice, we had good visibility and the scenery was

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    Status: CANCELLED  at 13:00

    Do to unfavourable weather conditions, the 13:00 tour has been CANCELLED today. For more information, please contact our ticket office at elding@elding.is or +354 519 5000

    Tour at 09:00

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: On this foggy day we sailed straight out to the area that we left the humpbacks on the morning tour. We were so happy to see that the humpback whales were still in that same area just about 20 minutes from the

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Because of the winds we experienced on the morning tour we were expecting some swells but the sun really warmed everybody up on the way out. We had an amazing morning tour so we were excited to get out again. We headed straight out to th

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    Status: CANCELLED

    Due to unfavourable conditions, our tours today (9:00 & 13:00) have been cancelled. Please contact us directly via elding@elding.is or +354 519 5000 for more information.

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: It was still an overcast sky and some light rain when we left the harbour on the afternoon tour. We still had swells from the west and the boat rocked, it caused green-faces onboard. For the ones that stayed outside the overalls came to

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    Status: RUNNING

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The weather only got better, unfortunately clouds were coming in and the skies became overcast but sun glasses still came in use with a strong glare on the water. The sea was like a mirror, whic

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: What an afternoon, sun was out and very strong. I think ony 10 out of 122 passengers made use of the floatation suits we offer on board to keep warm. Also the swell had calmed down but holding on to the rails was important still as boat

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The afternoon was still fairly warm but now it had clouded over completely but we still had a beautifully calm sea. After sailing for only 15 minutes our first species was spotted, a pod of 8 white beaked dolphin. A

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey and Elding: Due to a large number of passengers we decided to take out two boats this afternoon. We headed out on a beautiful warm and sunny day. After a short sail we spotted a pod of 3-4 harbour porpoises, we didn´t sto

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: This was another amazing day out on the bay! Our first sighting was early on the tour with 3 white beaked dolphins. They traveled slowly in an area close to Reykjavík and while we followed them we spotted two other pods

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: It was even warmer than on the morning tour. On this tour we got great sightings of 6-7 minke whales! We had to sail far out to find the first minke whales. We came to an area with 3 minke whales, we followed one of them

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: The summer weather continued on the afternoon tour and we all could work on our Icelandic tan throughout the tour. The sea also remained flat so spotting was easy. On this tour we headed to our normal whale watching area in the middle of

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: It had stopped raining but the wind was even getting stronger so it made it much easier to be able to sail out from Hafnarfjörður in stead of Reykjavík. It took us only 20 minutes until we spotted the first humpback whale

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: It was much windier in the afternoon than on morning tour. Fortunately for us the find was coming from south east so we got good shelter from land in our main sighting area these days. It didnt take us long to spot our first blow of a

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: This afternoon we again headed towards the area outside of Hafnarfjörður to see the humpback whales. The sun had almost disappeared but the sea conditions were still great. It took a bit more than one hour to reach the a

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Eldey: Compared to the morning tour, it was a lot windier and less sunny than in the morning. So it was good that we returned to the area outside of Hafnarfjörður where we had been earlier and where we got shelter from land. It took a whil