Whale watching is good for you!! (unless you had breakfast, then you should think about not going)

Whale watching is one of the most amazing things I've ever done (no matter that I really, seriously love whales - I think anyone would be emotionally involved in this experience).

I did it in the summer of 2012.

Here is my blog entry of that day:

In other news: today we went whale watching It’s been the most amazing experience of my life! I literally cried of joy - well, before throwing up at least. Anyway, we were extremely lucky (our guide said it was like we won the lottery) because we saw 2 minke whales feeding very close to the boat, and a pod of 8 dolphins. I can’t really describe the emotion! Just some advice if you plan to go whale watching: don’t have breakfast before it. No seriously, don’t.

And here's a picture of what you actually have to wear when you go whale watching with Elding in July:

Yes, it was that cold.

Trying to write down my feelings during the tour is clearly impossible. You can not describe the feeling you get when this enourmous animal looks at you from the waves. You can hear it breath. You can actually smell it.
Whales are so curious they come close to the boat and play. They are as big as a bus and they want to play. The emotions are incredible.

Elding, being the awesome company that it is, posted a video and a recap of our tour. Here it is, with a link to their website:

Tour at 0900

Report from Hafsúlan:

What a great morning in Faxaflói Bay! We started the tour at Akurey to watch thousands of Puffins. It is great to see how good the colony doing at the moment and we hope more and more to have young birds on the island in this autum. Once we were further out in the bay we spotted something in a great distance, some splashes and a black back, this turned out to be two lunge feeding Minke Whales! What a great moment out in a calm bay! Both of them surfaced close to the boat and we could see small fish jumping while the Whales were lunge feeding not more than 10 meter away. Once we all ahd a great look at the Minke Whales feeding hehaviour we headed into another area as there was a second boat coming and we did not want to disturb the whales. Not more than five minutes later we found a Pod of 10 to 15 White Beaked Dolphins. Again a nice surprise. They came close to the boat and we saw their whole bodies under the surface, before we decided to head back towards land. On the way back we spotted 4 other Minke Whales in different directions that we just looked at while passing by. Amazing start into the day for all on board!!!

Photos and video taken by engineer Guðmundur Geir