July 18-22

There's three days to cover this time. First I'll cover the latest wildlife trend that's been occurring in the bay, it started last week while I was back in the UK and has carried on through the present. We've had numerous phases of behaviour from animals that come and go, March-April was basically Humpback season, May was full of excellent Minkes that were feeding and being interactive, June and half of July have been pretty poor to be honest. It's all been very 6/10.
But now it's much better! We've had a real influx of White-Beaked Dolphins in the bay, and many of them have been very curious and playful with the boat.

You can see how close they get, plus I love it when you see them under the surface just as they take a breath.

This is great for perspective, mere metres from the boat!

They often use the energy and motion created by the movement of the boat to leap and surf around us. It's a fantastic sign that we are having a mutually beneficial interaction.

During a midnight sun tour we had a really beautiful sunset, here it illuminates the volcanic glacier Snæfellsjökull (Sny-fells-yeu-kukl) and the cruise ship beside it serves to frame it.
Interestingly when this cruise ship set off a passenger had a heart attack and the rescue teams from Reykjavík flew out to assist, it was an interesting sight.

The best thing about sunsets is how the light changes constantly, you should always watch the sky just to see the light change.

Sunsets always looks great out of focus, I had some fun with the manual focus for this one.

This is from a different day to the rest of the dolphins but you can see how this dolphin has a very serious wound. This is 99% a bite wound, and how red it is shows how it must be fresh. In Ólafsvík recently there was a sighting of Orca attacking dolphins, this could be one of the survivors. Well done fella!

And we should always remember the whales! Here's quite a nice shot of a Minke Whale, you can see the head of this whale as it breached the surface. Speaking of that there was a tour recently where we had the pleasure of seeing a Minke Whale breach 5 times!!! It was around 1km away but it was distinctly a minke throwing its body out of the water, because this is me though I couldn't get a picture. I was a little busy yelling and screaming, I've developed a bit of a company reputation for reacting loudly to big situations. That usually means I get distracted and don't use my camera.

Thanks for reading!