We sailed from Grindavík again and once again the tour was magnificent!
We saw 4 Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) and 3 Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). And the experience was just insane!
One of the humpbacks did a full body breach out of the water! I didn't get a shot of it but it was still an utterly exhilarating thing to see! And all of the orca and humpbacks were swimming underneath and around our boat, coming within a metre of the boat and being perfectly calm around us. Even the sea seemed to sense the perfect occasion and was glassy still throughout the tour.
I can't really describe how excellent the tour was, we spotted the first whale after 30 minutes and had constant, incredible contact for the next 2 hours. And it never got old, by the end I had butterflies in my stomach that just wouldn't fade!
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| Even the very start of the tour gave us some heavenly sunlight forcing its way through the clouds. |
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| The tour gave us four juvenile male orcas. You can tell they're male by their very large, straight dorsal fins. |
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| An orca and humpback whale together, we're pretty sure they were feeding together. The fish were quite deep and all the animals were diving together and surfacing together. |
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| Cracking Northern Gannet picture! Largest sea bird in the North-Atlantic! |
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| Killer whales tend to spend all their time together, they usually travel together in family pods. So it was a little unusual to see a small group without the entire family. |
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| Love getting a good shot of an eye-spot. |
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| The humpbacks came lips first! Silly whale, it isn't Valentines Day yet! |
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| Cracking wings! |
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| Basically sitting right at the surface, perfect view! |
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| Double orca! |
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| Love the look of the sun bouncing off the back of the orca |
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| I ran to the bottom deck to a lovely vertical shot of the orcas surfacing! |
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| Now this is a special picture! This is one of my best, hands down. |
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| The little splash of water looks quite cute to me |
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| And lastly the killer whales swam off into the sunset, they know how to end a tour... |
If January continues in this vein then this blog should certainly get a lot more activity!
Thanks for reading!
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