Whale Diary

10:00 - This morning the sea was a little choppy but eager for adventure we sailed out! After a quick puffin stop, we ventured out into the bay! We spotted a blow on the horizon and went a little closer to this humpback whale! We stayed for a little bit and it would swim quite close to us, often showing off its fluke! After that we found a pod of  7 friendly white beaked dolphins. They were very curious and surfing the waves around us! In this feeding fun chaos we also spotted 2 minke whales! It was truly an adventure!

Crew: Captain Óðinn & Guide Arthur, Captain Miquel & Guide Anna

12:00 -  This morning we went out with a grey sky and a little wavy ocean. However, that didn't stop us to sail out onto the bay. It didn't take us very long to find our first humpback whale. This was a small individual that wasn't very interested on us, so we continued to look for another one. Soon after, we found a pair of humpback whales resting together and a third one nearby feeding, so every time it went down for a deeper dive it showed us its beautiful fluke. This pair of humpbacks was very relaxed and they came quite close to the boat to check us out, so everyone could get a good view of these beautiful animals. On the area, there was also a minke whale but it was as shy as every other minke. After spending quite sometime with this pair, we were running out of time so we started our way back to port since it also started to rain. On the way there, we found another minke that surfaced very close to the rib boat but when we decided to stop, we didn't see it again. Therefore, we continued our wet and wavy ride back to the port. 

Crew: Captain Pedro & Guide Guillermo

14:00 -  This afternoon was a bit of a wet tour, with the rain coming down on us even before we had left! That wont stop us though and we sailed out into the unknown. We always like starting with puffins, so we did exactly that. We then ventured out and quickly spotted 2 blows - wait maybe three! We found one duo of humpback whales along side another one that was a little further away. It was difficult to tell whether it was three that were just a bit of a loose group, or two with a third one just happening to be near by! as there was quite a few boats in this area we decided to make a move and give them some space! We then found 2 more humpback that this time were clearly travelling together! They were very relaxed until they did a half tail slap right at the end. Then we continued on and found another (!!) humpback! This one first was quite relaxed but ended up breaching 4x! And just when we decided to head home, did a peduncle throw! It felt like the animals weren't ready for us to leave as we had a small pod of white beaked dolphins! We did run out of time and headed home!

Crew: Captain Óðinn & Guide Arthur, Captain Miquel & Guide Anna

16:00 -  The weather had cleared out slightly after the early afternoon, and we had a wavy but not rainy tour. We followed the birds and they led us to out first humpback whale, a quite small individual that we followed along. It didn´t take us long to realize there were many in the area. We went further away the coast to check if there were more. Although we saw many interesting seabirds, we came back for the whales of the first spot. There, we saw two individuals: one doing bubble feeding and a final one that waved us goodbye by doing tail slapping.

Crew: Captain Pedro & Guide Guillermo