Thursday, 13 May 2026

Hello everybody!

Today we had an amazing day at sea: sunny, with not too much wind. We started the day with our 9:00 am Classic Tour. Despite the cold, most of our adventurous passengers stayed outside, and they were the ones who spotted our first species of the day: a small group of Harbour porpoises feeding together with Arctic terns and kittiwakes.

Then, by Hjalteyri, we spotted our first Humpback whale. Once again, Proppy wanted to stay in the fjord one more day. It was diving for short periods and at some point started tail-throwing a few times, it has been very active recently! While we were watching Proppy, our captain spotted another humpback north of Hjalteyri, so we left Proppy to see the new whale. This time, the whale was diving for longer periods, making the sighting a bit trickier, so after a while we returned to Proppy for one more encounter.

In the afternoon tour, we were blessed to be able to watch Proppy and 2 more humpback whales, near Rauduvik. On the way back we spend a bit of time with 1 more humpback whale, next to Hjalteyri. During the whole trip we were seeing smaller pods of harbour porpoises, scattered along the fjord, actively hunting.

The birds didn’t disappoint either. They were in big flocks, also very active and interesting to watch. At the beginning of the morning tour, very close to the boat, we saw three Arctic skuas chasing a kittiwake. We also saw common and black guillemots, razorbills, fulmars, Arctic terns, long tailed ducks.

Text and images: Tena & Gema

Tours of the day: Classic - 0900 and 1300 o’clock