A breaching bottlenose whale!

Finally it cleared up and stopped raining. I had three tours today, all of them really successful and nice. On the first tour we saw a humpback and another whale that we weren't sure what kind was because we just saw it quickly. It looked a bit like a minke whale but didn't act like one so we weren't sure but didn't see it again to check better what it was. It got a bit clearer on my next tour though. It was really funny, we had found the humpback whale again and had it right next to the boat. Then I looked a bit to the other side and saw a huge splash. First we thought it was a minke whale jumping but we turned towards it and it kept on jumping and jumping. And then we saw that this was a bottlenose whale. We haven't seen one since last year but I'm sure that was the mysterious whale from my earlier tour. But we got a great show from it there because the bottlenose was still jumping when we came closer to it. Really nice. But a bit weird to have a humpback whale on one side and a breaching bottlenose whale on the other side!

On my last tour the bottlenose whale was nowehere to be seen, neither was the humpback but we saw three minke whales, one of them a bit curious and stayed close to us the whole time we were with it.

All in all, it was a really nice day and following are pictures of the jumping bottlenose whale that Sergio Lardiez, a tourist onboard, was kind enough to lend us.

Þórdís, guide.