Whale Diary

14:00 - We quickly got dressed and entered to our boat. The sea state was noticeably better than the morninig and thanks to our captain we stayed dry during our tour. We started with a stop on the one of the three mane islands of puffins.  Akurey home for thousand of puffins that we enjoyed for quite a while. After this wonderful stop we started our way towards the open waters. It dint took long until we came across a humpback whale that was not more than ten minutes away from our puffin stop. Big individual fluke diving close to our boat that made us exited for the day ahead. Further out in Faxafloy bay we spotted a minke whale that surfaced close too our boat and made us even happier and we came back home with big smiles and lots of nice memories.

Crew: Captain Reynar & Guide Lefteris, Captain Megan & Guide Hannah

16:00 - We started the tour in a bad weather and with some swell. Fortunately We spotted a Humpback whale close to Viðey and stayed with it for a while and went to screen another location. The weather improved then and now we are looking at a another Humpback fishing next to the shore. Everyone was happy to have been able to enjoy a nice tour and come back in a sunny weather.  

Crew: Captain Miquel & Guide Arthur

20:00 - On our evening tour we started heading to the area we saw some whales in earlier today, around Lundey island area. The sun was shining and the colours of Esja mountain were gourgeous! We saw many flocks of birds, indicating that we were in a productive area. It didn't take long until we spotted a blow in the distance, and we came to check this whale out. It was a humpback whale, swimming calmly and going for shallow dives. It barely showed the fluke, but we definitely got the picture of it when it went for a deeper dive. This whale was just doing its own thing: one time it would pop up here, and then far away there, all of a sudden to the opposite direction... but we could still have many looks of it! While we were waiting for this one to come back up to the surface, this calm whale decided to breach all of a sudden! Literally, our of the blue, we saw the biggest splash on our right! We then decided to leave this individual and head to Lundey, since we were so close! We made a little stop to see what the puffins where doing in the evening. They were very active of course, carrying fish and flying and flapping around! We then continued our way, this time going into more out in the bay. However, we couldn't find anything else and as the waves were getting bigger, we decided to head back home, as we were also running out of time. We enjoyed the last moments with the sun and were happy ending out day at sea.

Crew: Captain Miquel & Guide Milan, Captain Emily & Guide Milla