Whale diary

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00

Today's whale watching tour is on schedule from Reykjavík this afternoon! Remember to dress according to weather and feel free to borrow our thermal overalls if needed!

It was quite a windy day today. After sailing past Viðey island, we spotted a blow from our first of 3 humpback whales! We also saw 2 grey seals in this area too. The other pair of whales we saw would surface very regularly, meaning we always got a great look at them as they dove. We all made sure to warm up inside on our way home!

We were lucky once again, to quickly see a blow and splash so close to land. We had found ourselves a humpback whale that was constantly chasing fish around and lunge feeding! We then saw another 2 humpback whales, chilling next to Viðey island. Soon they all did fluke dives and our time with the whales came to an end!

It was a calm, sunny day in Reykjavík. We sailed around Viðey island and soon fund 2 feeding humpback whales! The crew determined that one of them was the entangled whale from a couple of days ago, now swimming freely! We also saw a curious harbour seal popping out of the water and about 3-4 more close to shore.

We quickly spotted two humpback whales travelling together. Then we found the entangled humpback whale from last night's Northern Lights Cruise. As we saw a fourth humpback whale, the Coastguard rolled in to rescue the whale from its ropes! We then sailed back home in a mini snowstorm under delightful Christmas music.

After a snowy morning, we were looking forward to heading out into the bay to find some wildlife! It didn't take us long before we found a couple of feeding humpback whales! We were treated to plenty of fluke dives from both whales as we split our time between them. We then found our third humpback whale also feeding, a little further away.

It took us about 20 minutes to see the first marine mammal, and it was one of at least 3 puppy-faced harbour seals. After about half an hour, we saw a blow from a humpback whale! We could even see its body shape through the water as it was swimming close to the water, making fluke prints on the surface, making it easy to track.

It was a bit windy today, but that didn’t stop us from having an amazing afternoon on the water! We set off and quickly spotted our first humpback whale near Lundey island. We then found another humpback whale near Viðey island and this one was even more incredible - it swam right up close to the boat, thrilling everyone on board.

Only 15 minutes after leaving the harbour we already spotted a blow, we found Pongo the humpback whale again! A few minutes later spotted another humpback whale! It looked like these two were taking turns coming up. We continued on towards Viðey island where we found another 2 humpback whales, making it a total of 4 today!

The weather was far from perfect, but we knew we didn't have to travel far to find wildlife! After about 20 minutes, we spotted our first humpback whale between the islands of Viðey and Lundey. We watched it do several short dives, and then we spotted two more humpback whales nearby, and even got a super close fluke dive!

Today we headed back to the area between the islands where we've had great success lately. Throughout the tour we saw 5 humpback whales and at one point there were whales in all directions! Most of them were feeding, but some were resting and got very close to our boat - we could even see their whole bodies through the water!

We sailed close to Viðey island this afternoon, and not even 15 minutes into the tour, we had found a humpback whale - it was Pongo, an individual last seen in March of this year! We eventually found a harbour seal, as well a second humpback whale in the same area. Then, out of nowhere, Pongo decided to do a single breach for us!

Between Viðey island and the mainland we spotted a total of 3 humpback whales. It was really nice, the whales stayed most of the time in the same area, swimming in circles, feeding. They gave us several flukes, and in the end of the tour, one of them came really close, just a few feet away. Everyone on board were equally ecstatic!

Today was a beautiful winter day with blue skies and calm seas. Throughout the tour we saw a total of 5 humpback whales! We first approached the far side of Viðey and found two whales swimming side by side. Then we spotted a third one a bit further away, then a fourth sleeping and finally a fifth one that was actively feeding!

We quickly found 2 humpback whales surrounding the islands of Viðey and Lundey. Staying with each, one at a time, we had the chance to see 2 very different behaviours: feeding and resting. As the sun started to set over the appearing clouds, we started heading back, luckily noticing small pods of harbour porpoises on our way home.

Our tour started under a white powdered snow storm. After a few minutes of sailing, the head of a grey seal popped up out of nowhere. Then, a humpback whale came up to get some air and this individual seemed to be resting close to the surface, but we got a few good looks at its fluke and determined it was our friend from yesterday!

Today was a bit windy, but we enjoyed nice calm seas. It didn't take us long to find 2 humpback whales between the islands! We split our time between the two, and as they got sleepy, we were lucky to be able to watch them super close to the boat, resting. As we headed back, we all warmed up with some nice hot chocolate!

We had calm seas waiting for us as we sailed into the bay. After only 13 minutes we had already found a feeding humpback whale! Since we didn't want to overstay our welcome, we headed further out and sailed towards Hvalfjörður, where we spotted another humpback whale and even saw a third humpback whale on our way home!

• CLASSIC WHALE TOUR | 13:00

Due to unfavourable conditions in the bay, our whale watching tour from Reykjavík has been cancelled today!