Whale Diary

10:00 - The weather conditions were very good, we had sunshine and a calm sea. We went out and didn't have to go far, before we saw a blow. It didn't take us long to arrive there and we had a nice Humpback Whale that was surfacing a few times and then fluking. We watched it doing this a few times and then decided to leave it be and look for something else. We were lucky again, because it didn't take us long to find a pod of 6 White Beaked Dolphins accompanied by 1 Humpback Whale ! They were playfully interacting with eachaother and we stayed for quite a while with them. Thenm it was time for us to head back to the harbour. In total we saw 2 Humpback Whales.

Crew: Captain Bohdan & Guide Rodrigo, Captain Örn & Guide Kylie

12:00 - The conditions were as perfect as the tour before. We headed out to the same spot where we left the Humpback Whale and the Dolphins in the earlier tour. And we found them again. But they weren't that close together anymore. But instead we found 2 Humpbacks travelling together side by side. We stayed with them for a while and saw blows in close proximity. So we headed there as well and had a look at that Humpback. It was traveling very energetic and fluked a few time very nicely. But it was time for us to go home, so we said goodbye. In total we saw 3 Humpback Whales and 6 White Beaked Dolphins.

Crew: Captain Örn & Guide Kylie

14:00 - Our tour this afternoon was an amazing wildlife experience! The sea conditions were great. There were many Humpback whales in the bay and at times they seemed to be blowing in every direction. They were actively feeding sometimes synchronizing their dives. There was waving of flippers and lifting of flukes. Some of the Humpback whales were accompanied by White-beaked dolphins that were surfacing all around them and breaching. We estimate there were at least 7-8 Humpback whales and 8 or more White-beaked dolphins. Before returning to harbour we visited the puffins at Engey.

Crew: Captain Bohdan & Guide Rodrigo , Captain Gunni & Guide Trausti

16:00 - We startet our tour with rain and a little choppy sea, but we were rewarded with 2 Humpback Whales travelling together, the same that we saw in the previous tours in the morning. They were feeding from time to time and also showed us a synchronized perfect flukediving behaviour. Then we saw BIG splashes in the distance and decided to go there, BUT all of a sudden all around us Humpbacks popped up and did all kinds of nice things! One was prectoral fin slapping, the other one fluked a few times, the other one was tail slapping. But we decided to head towards the one how was breaching already 2 times. As we got there he stopped breaching, but he did a peduncle throw for us, which was also very nice to sea. Then he travelled alongside us and then went for a long dive. We went back to the other Humpbacks that we saw and watched the duo again before we had to head back to the harbour. In total we saw 6 Humpback Whales and 4 White Beaked Dolphins.

Crew: Captain Gunni & Guide Kylie

17:00 - The tour starter under the rain but the weather quickly changed as we were going further out in the bay. The weather then became clear and we could enjoy a great view of the surroundings under a beautiful golden sunlight. We saw then few white beak dolphins followed shortly by two humpback whales and all of a sudden we were surrounded by humpack whales and dolphins, two of them where diving often at the same time wich offered us a great sighting of both there fluks diving at the same time.

Crew: Captain Einar & Guide Arthur

20:00 - We started into the tour with perfect conditions, the sunset was beautiful and the sea calm. Also we were gifted with the most awesome tour of the day! We found the 2 Humpbacks which we saw during the whole day, they were travelling alongside again and were pretty calm. Then we saw 2 blows in the distance and decided to go there and have a look. As we got there, we only found 1 Humpback Whale that was quite shy, but he showed us a very nice fluke. So we went for a little loop, to see if we could find something else. And we did ! We found 1 Minke Whale, that was not shy, as they usually are. He surfaced 3 times, then was gone for a bit and then surfaced 2 times again. After that we thought it was nice to have a last look at the duo Humpies, before we had to head back to the harbou. But boy, we were not ready for what happened next. :D We found the duo but we also found ourselves surrounded by not 2, not 3, not 4, but 6 (!) Humpback Whales at the same time !!! It was insane. So everyone of them was peacefully and calmly swimming and exhaling, fluking and surfacing, when the duo decided to put up a show ! They were Bubblenet Feeding right next to our boat, not 1 time, not 2 times, not even 3 times, but 7 times that we witnessed. But since it was sooo late at one point, we had to go, although everyone would have loved to stayed the night out on the ocean and watch these 2 Humpbacks do their thing in the sunset ! It was amazing, everyone was in awe !

Crew: Captain Siggi & Guide Kylie