Whale diary

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

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Report from Eldey: Even though this was a windy day it felt pleasant on the bay, the swell was not so high and the wind felt a little warmer than last few days. We saw quite a lot of bird life on the tour, mainly iceland gulls, fulmars and big flocks of ei

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Report from Eldey: We made our way out from Reykjavík today accompanied by some light rainfall a bit of sunshine as well. We had to go far offshore today, but then finally we saw the first pod of 4-5 white-beaked dolphins. They suddenly st

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Report from Eldey and Elding: A beautiful day to wake up too and be out on the bay on. Skies were blue, sun was shining and a fresh covering of snow on the mountains. The beautiful day brought an influx of passengers to our doorsteps, so many that we had t

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Report from Eldey: We go a lot of rain, wind and white beaked dolphins today. The first dolphins of the tour were very close to land so we had only sailed for a little more than 20 minutes when we spotted them. They were scattered over a b

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Report from Eldey: We has south westerly winds on today´s tour so we decided to depart from Keflavik to make the tour more comfortable for our passengers. If we departed from Reykjavik we would have has strong, cold winds for the majority of the tour and m

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Report from Eldey: The weather was actually very good today with only weak winds from the east and a cloudy sky. That meant good sailing and cetacean spotting conditions. We started with a very good harbour porpoise encounter, 6-8 individu

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

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It was a beautiful but cold afternoon on the bay. Easterly winds meant that we felt the most of it on the way home. Plenty types of birds joined us on our tour including numerous sooty shearwaters, a lot more we have seen this year to pr