Saturday, 14 June 2025

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 09:00, 13:00, 17:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00
• PREMIUM WHALE TOUR | 20:00

Report from Eldey: Sailing out the sunny Icelandic morning, we hoped to continue the streak of great tours we've had in the last days. Very quickly, we found our first sighting, a small humpback whale, coming up and down, seemingly feeding. Venturing just meters away, we spotted a minke whale, who roamed around us and spy-hoped many times, an odd and rare behavior from this species. Deciding to go back to our humpback friend, we had the chance to see it pectoral slap and roll around multiple times, with many more fluke dives. Sailing back to the harbor, multiple passengers spotted 3 harbor porpoises, to finish off this great tour. 

-Alex Paumier

Report from Eldey: This afternoon we set out in a very sunny Flaxaflói. The sea was calm and we were all hopeful on what the next few hours would bring us. As we searched for signs on the surface, suddenly a faint blow appeared in the distance. It was the exhale of a humpback whale! As we got closer to this individual, we could see that it was doing some slow, shallow dives quite near the surface. Perfect for us, as we got a beautiful close look of its back, dorsal fin, and long white pectoral fins. We spent a good amount of time with this humpback whale, before we ventured on trying to spot other wildlife. As we started to head back to the harbor, with no other cetaceans in sight, the humpback whale from before was still doing frequent surfaces close by. We all had yet another look of admiration as the whale came even closer to our boat this time. As we started to head back to the harbor, the sun was shining in our faces and we were all happy and satisfied. What a lovely afternoon! 

- Maja Andersson

Report from Eldey: Sailing out again this sunny night, we expected the same type of tour as we had throughout the day. Quite on the contrary, as we ended up going to the furthest we've ever been out into the bay, but with a good reason: a resting humpback whale, with which we stayed for over 30 minutes. As we got plenty to see from this whales blows and dives, we decided it was sadly time to go home, a decision this humpback whale decided to resting with a tail slap ! We then decided to extend our stay, just enough to have a pod of 6 white beaked dolphins with 2 calves pass quickly by us, as well as 2 others breaching and jumping out of the waters in the high distance. We sadly had to head on home, but  knowing that our decision to go this far had been the good one. 

-Alex Paumier

North Atlantic puffin, lesser black backed gull, greater black backed gull, Northern gannet, glaucous gull, black guillemot