Elding
Reykjavík Whale Watching
Hvalaskoðun Reykjavik
Tel: +(354) 555 3565
Fax: +(354)554 7420
Mail us on:
nfo@elding.is
We manage to depart on all our trips this weekend. On Friday we had help from the Maritime Research Institute with finding a humpback whale that had been marked with GPS transmitterr on the 21. October in north of Iceland. (http://www.hafro.is/hvalamerki/60012.html)
The whale has been in the area for two weeks but due to bad sea condition we have not been able to spot the whale until now. On Saturday we found the whale again but this time the whale had a company, another humpback, in addition to this we also spotted lot of dolphins on both tours!
On Sunday the weather was worse than the other days and we consider cancelling the tour. We decide to depart from Hafnarfjörður the weather was better there and try our best to sail as far as we could possible do due to the sea conditions. It went better that we hoped for just few minutes away from Hafnarfjordur we spotted two nice minke whales and few minutes later group of dolphins.
Because there are fewer individuals in the area during the winter we only depart if the weather is reasonable good so the winter whale watching trips are weather permitted and we sometimes have to cancel our trip or reschedule. Therefore do not put your stake just on one day the trip could be cancelled due to bad sea conditions as the weather in Iceland is more unpredictable during the winter but that is also the beauty of this, this is the nature that we cannot control but do our best to enjoy when we can.
Pictures from November 20th. (crew member Arnar Freyr)
Pictures from November 21st (crew member Elva Sara)
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