Whale diary

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: We were off to a difficult start on this tour, but our luck quickly changed an hour into sailing, when we had our first encounter with a pod of 5-7 white-beaked dolphins! Even though it wa

Tour status 20:30 : CANCELLED

Due to the wind getting worse, and the sea conditions getting rough, we have to cancel the 20:30 tour today. For more information contact our ticket office at elding@elding.is or by phone +354 519 5000

Tour at 13:00 a

Tour status: RUNNING 

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: A beautiful, calm, quiet evening on the bay. There was not much to see in terms of wildlife tonight, even the birds were rare, the occasional fulmar flying past or a puffin divi

Tour at 20:30 

Report from Elding: Sun was shining, sea was calm and finally the temperature was warming up. We were looking forward to heading out into the big blue to search for some whales. After 30 minutes of sailing we came across our first, a minke wh

Tours Running: 09:00, 10:00, 13:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:30

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: The weather smoothed up after the previous trips. Our first sighting was an elusive minke whale that we were able to fallow for a w

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: We sailed out on overcast sky, the sunlight shining a little through the clouds into a calm bay. We kept looking for cetaceans over one and a half hours as suddenly a few

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Hafsúlan: When heading out for our midnight tour we had perfect sea conditions and we got to see some sunshine as well, creating a very nice background for our first sightings. The first one

Tour at 20:30

Report from Eldey: It was just incredible evening! First of all we got to see sun and amazing sunset with Snæfellsjökull mountain in the front. With warm orange light all landscape looks like in fire. It was bit windy but that didn´t stop

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Eldey: The sea state has now become very still and we had really nice whale watching conditions to begin with. First we saw a very interesting sight: two lone white

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Eldey: The wind didn't change directions for our tour, we went out facing a cold wind blowing from the West. Fortunately, the sea was

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: Not the most beautiful of nights out in the bay, with misty rain that was so fine you didn´t realise you were get wet until yo

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20.30

Report from Elding: The sun was still shining when we sailed out from Reykjavik, but the wind had picked up a little. We searched the bay quite intensely, to spot ceteaceans, with no luck. Finally we fou

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: The bay did not seem to be much alive during the day so our expectations were moderate. Once again we were to learn better. Du

09:00, 10:00, 13:00, 14:00, 17:00, 20:30: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: Our last tour of the day was marked by calm sea and an incredible sunset in between the clouds. After sailing for a while, we came acro

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Eldey: The sun kept shining through the entire tour while shaping the landscape in different colors as getting closer to the sea. We were able to observe some marine l

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: No sun for this midnight tour but it was warm and we were excited to head out. We had a little rain but as we went further in to the bay the rain

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Eldey: Although the sky was mostly cloudy we were lucky to enjoy the sunset for the whole tour, as it shined through the only gap in t

Tour status: RUNNING

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: The sky tried to intimidate us for our evening tour with dark clouds and pouring rain, but we whale adventurers are not easily stop

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: Luckily the fog was gone by the time the Elding departed from the old harbour and seas was very calm, so it was a pleasure to sail tonight and spotting conditions were superb. A pod of white

Tours at 09:00, 10:00, 13:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:30

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: The weather calmed down during the evening and it was actually quite pleasing during the trip. However, unfortunate