Whale diary

Tour at 9 am and 1 pm: CANCELLED

Due to bad weather conditions, we have to cancel the tour at 9 am today. For further questions or to reschedule please don't hesitate to contact our ticket office by phone +354 519 5000 or by e-mail elding@elding.is. 

Status at 9am and 13:00: CANCELLED

Unfortunately all of our Whale Watching tours today have been cancelled due to a bad storm and therefore unfavorable sea conditions. For further questions or to reschedule please don't hesitate to contact our ticket office by phon

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey & Hafsulan: Due to the high number of passengers we went out with two boats on our afternoon tour. The long swells out at sea gave us quite  a roller coaster ride today that not everyone enjoyed. In the very beginning a few

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Our afternoon tour started with lot of snow falling down on us as we left the Harbour. Winter is finally here, let's hope it stays for a while. With the strong winds in our backs we sailed out again and headed for the area where the mink

Status at 1pm: CANCELLED

Status at 9:00: CANCELLED 

Our Whale Watching tour today at 9am has unfortunately been cancelled due to unfavorable weather and sea conditions. For further questions or to reschedule please contact our t

Status at 13:00: CANCELLED 

Our Whale Watching tour today at 1pm has unfortunately been cancelled due to unfavorable weather and sea conditions. For further questions or to reschedule please contact our ticket office by phone +354 519 5000 or by email elding@e

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Have you seen the movie The Mist ? Well, our afternoon tour had the same kind of eerie atmosphere, except instead of scary monsters there was nice cetaceans lurking in the fog surrounding us. Actually at the beginning of the tour we reac

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey & Elding: Due to the high number of passengers booked for our 1 pm tour, we went out with two boats. The se conditions this afternoon were even more perfect than this morning, the sea flat like a mirror. Elding left the harbour first

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: After a successful morning tour we headed back out and searched in the same area where we had left the dolphins. We took a few circles there and just when we moved on, we saw a few leaping dolphins in a few hundred meters distance in fro

Status: RUNNING

We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik on this beautiful and calm day. We are looking forward to welcoming you to our tour! 

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: What a tour! Words cannot expr

Status: RUNNING

We are sailing out from the Old Harbour in Reykjavik today. There is little to no wind but there could be some movement on the boat out on Faxabay. If you are sensitive to motion sickness we do offer preventative tablets in the ticket office, f

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey and Hafsulan: What a thrilling tour! And for our very first time not just only because of the amazing wildlife. We sailed out today with two boats, with incredible spotting conditions but a tedious light rain that was pouring incessantly.

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: At the beginning of our afternoon tour conditions remained mostly unchanged, with maybe slightly less swell but still our passengers were treated with serious rolling. Most of our sailing happened under weak wind and a little bit of sun,

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Large swells and quite some wind from the south was expected in the afternoon and we prepared ourselves with warm overalls and seasickness tablets that we give out on our boats for free. The weather was a mix of overcast, some light rain

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: We were sailing out this afternoon from Hafnarfjördur where we had ended our morning tour. A strong wind was expected to blow from the south so this way we were hoping for a bit more sailing comfort with the wind in our back. It turned o

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: What a great dolphin day we had today out in Faxafloi. Especially this afternoon we could enjoy the presence of 3 different pods of white-beaked dolphins! But let's start from the beginning; we were sailing out under a s

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: After three days of cancelations we had dolphins again on our afternoon tour! Just 20 min after leaving the harbour we came across a group of 3 white-beaked dolphins, Iceland's most common dolphin species. And it gets ev

Tours at 9:00 and 13:00 - CANCELLED

Our Whale Watching tours for 8 February have been cancelled due to a storm warning. We encourage you to keep an eye on safetravel.is for updates on the weather, and stay safe.  For further questions or to reschedule please c

Tour status at 9:00 and 13:00 - CANCELLED

Our Whale Watching tours today have unfortunately been cancelled due to unfavorable weather and sea conditions. For further questions or to reschedule please contact our ticket office by phone +354 519 5000 or by email eldi

Tour at 13:00

Unfortunately the Whale Watching tour at 1pm for today has been cancelled due to unfavorable weather conditions at sea. For further questions or to reschedule please contact our offices by phone +354 519 5000 or by email elding@elding.is.