Bolungarvik 66:09.4N 23:14.7W

Millybrown
Mark Hillmann
Wed 23 Jul 2008 22:07
We arrived here after motoring back across the fjord.  Again we stopped the engine as we came out of Jokulfirdir and this time were rewarded by the PSHSHH of a whale blowing close inshore.  We sailed towards it, but eventually it then turned out to sea astern of us.  We later saw two more series of blows in separate areas and a pair of porpoises surfaced briefly within sight.  The whales were blowing 3 or 4 times and then sounding for longer, but not showing their tails when they dived. 
 
 Minke whale
 
We motored on across here, a fishing harbour today visited the natural history museum and had a swim.
Talking to people at the museum we decided that the whales that Adam had photographed so diligently were humpbacks and the previous day's whales were minkes.  The right and bowhead whales have no dorsal fin, but the humpbacks have the small one we saw.  The colouring in our book is misleading, but the Icelandic books were quite clear.