Report from Hafsúlan: The day was obviously not letting up as the rain continued to try and drench us as we headed south into the bay. The overalls were definitely used to their maximum today to keep our passengers dry and warm. We saw one Minke Whale on this tour which surf
Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had freshened up a bit when we sailed out but it was still a very nice sea condition with an unexpected evening sun. We didn´t sail far out before we spotted our first Minke Whale. We stayed with this animal for a while before we decided to hea
Unfortunately we had to cancel the rest of the tours today due to unfavorable weather conditions.
Report from Hafsúlan: In the evening, the wind had picked up even more and we were facing rough conditions with wind, waves and rain out on faxa bay. However, we did not give up and even though we had to sail for almost two hours without seeing anything but the amazing Nort
Report from Hafsúlan: In the evening, the sea was still rough and once more we had to overcome some waves on our way towards the area where we had seen whales earlier in the day. As we arrived, we spotted once more a group of White-beaked Dolphins. We saw them surfacing a fe
Report from Hafsúlan: A tour that showed a 100% "patience pays off"!! We were searching for almost 2 hours and the bay seemed abandoned until we spotted a Minke Whale which we unfortunately lost after a few minutes but as we kept on looking we spotted another Minke Whale and
Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out this evening in slightly calmer weather than this afternoon and again we went south towards where we had been seeing the whales earlier today. Our search began very well as pretty soon we had spotted some harbor porpoises as they swam alon
This evening, we decided to start in hafnarfjordur, but end our tour in Reykjavik since we would cross a very promising area on our way. We were happy to see that the wind had calmed down a bit and were also taking advantage of having the wind coming from behind us on the wa
It was a beautiful evening when we sailed out into Faxa Bay. We spotted a pod of White Beaked Dolphins very close to the harbour and spent some time with them before we sailed on to see a Minke Whale. After a while of searching we saw a Minke Whale in front of us. It surface
Report from Hafsúlan: We started this tour at Engey to say hello to the Puffins and thrilled to see so many. The sea was still the same, maybe a little less rocky than previous tours. We sailed out too a different area to try our luck there and it was very disappointing. Not
Report from Hafsúlan: On this last tour of the day, the wind had only slightly picked up, but the sea was still relatively calm. Even though some rainclouds were hanging above faxa bay, the sun broke through here and there shining on parts of Snaefellsness and resulting in b
Report from Hafsúlan:It was still windy as we set out this afternoon. Disappointed after the last tour, we decided to try our luck in a new area this time. It started out slowly but then the captain spotted some diving northern gannets that we decided to take a closer look a
Report from Hafsúlan: This evening the conditions had improved considerably from this afternoon with the rain having stopped and the wind having calmed down a little bit. First we began with a stop at Engey and were delighted to still find the puffins there as they are set t
Report from Hafsúlan: It was a rainy afternoon when we headed straight out into the bay. We saw many Northern Gannets, even diving so we suspected some whales in the area but unfortunately even after driving out very far we couldn´t see any animals so we gave our passengers
Report from Hafsúlan: After having stopped at Engey, the puffin island we decided to try our luck in Hvalfjörður this time in light of the lack of sightings from earlier today. We sailed there but barely saw a bird. So we headed towards Akranes, then we headed west and ended
Report from Hafsúlan:We were a little bit worried about this tour considering our 1400 tour didn´t see anything but we kept positive and and did our best which really paid off because this was the best tour of all today. After stopping at the puffin island on the way out we
Report from Hafsúlan: We headed out to sea and the wind had picked up a bit from this afternoon, but the sky was more or less clear and the sun was shining. In Iceland whenever the sun is out we count that to be a great day. We headed straight out to sea to look for any sign
Report from Hafsúlan: This afternoon the weather was fantastic, with little wind and very calm seas. We began the trip with a visit to the small puffin colony on the island Engey, always a nice start to a tour. We then headed further out onto Faxa bay proper to begin our sea
