Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00

    Again very good conditions - we headed out even further during this tour and spotted a blow in a huge distance, a few times in a row, and speeded up to get closer. But when we came to the area where we expected the whale, no blow was visible again and no trace of a whale - w

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    Tour at 13:00

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    Tour at 9:00

    No whales on this tour! We saw very few birds feeding in the bay, which is a sign that there might not be much food around for the whales either. But this situation will pass as it has in previous years, and the whales will soon be

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    Tour at 13:00

    We had the same good weather conditions in the afternoon. This time we searched a long time for whales. And once again when we were starting to lose hope, suddenly a small group of cute harbour porpoises appeared! After enjoying them for a little while we went back to the ha

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    Tour at 13:00

    An afternoon with a big surprise. We started the tour by visiting Puffin Island where we again saw a lot of puffins. It seems that they will start breeding soon. We didn´t expect to see much on this tour because we hadn't found any whales on the morning tour. For quite a whi

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    Tour at 13:00

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    Tour at 9:00

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    Tour at 13:00

    Another beautiful and exciting day out in Faxafloi: three sightings of white-beaked dolphins in really big groups of more than 10 individuals! They were speeding up, moving in circle, we even had a goupr of four individuals jumping all together at the same time! Really spect

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    Tour at 13:00

    It was a long tour this afternoon! We started with the puffin island where we saw many, many of the cute little birds sitting and flying around. Far out in Faxaflói bay we found a nice group of dolphins that we were able to enjoy very much. They didn´t approach the boat but

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    Tour at 13:00

    Tour cancelled due to bad sea and weather conditions.

     

    Tour at 9:00

    It was rainy this morning when we went out but surprisingly it turned to be a very exciting tour! In fact, we had one sighting of a minke whale with which we stayed around 40 min. This

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    Tour at 13:00

    In the afternoon we really had to be patient. We had to sail for quite a while and we went much further out than usual to find some whales. We were almost about to give up when we spotted a group of white-beaked dolphins. It seemd that they had a calf so they were a bit shy.

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    Tour at 13:00

    Tour cancelled

     

    Tour at 9:00

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    Tour at 13:00

    Although the wind picked up a little bit, observation conditions were still very good. Close to coast we spotted two minke whales and several groups of harbour porpoises. We went to Puffin Island as well and watched the teeming puffin colony...

     

    Tour at 9:00

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    Tour at 13:00

    It had started to rain but the sea still was very calm - this tour staretd also with spotting some Harbour porpoises but they were more in a distance. Two groups of White-beaked Dolphins were spotted a little bit later, one with a calf and rather shy, keeping their distance,

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    Trip at 13:00

    Although the first trip was packed with wildlife we had no luck on this second. Only a few harbour porpoises appeared and disappeared fastly next to our boat. Still we could enjoy the puffin crowd on Puffin Island

     

    Trip at 9:00

    Dolphin Day! Just after leavin

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    Trip at 13:00

    Again we went out quite far in good weather conditions. Closer to the so called Whale Fiord we observed a minke whale feeding in association with sea birds. Another time we had some beautiful encounters with Puffins close to the boat.

     

    Trip at 9:00

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    Tour at 9:00

    Cancelled due to the bad weather conditions.

     

    Tour at 13:00

    Cancelled due to the bad weather conditions.

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    Tour at 13:00

    The afternoon tour started with encountering the White-beaked Dolphins, that we did't see for quite a while. They were approaching us several times and diving under the boat, great to watch. Harbour porpoises were also spotted during this tour, but not as nicely as during th

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    Tour at 13:00

    Another tour in really nice weather conditions, very sunny and calm sea but again it prooved to be very difficult to find the whales. A blow was spotted by one of our boats but the whale did not show up again.

     

    Tour at 09:00

    Finally the weather condition

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    Tour at 13:00

    Cancelled due to high wind speed

     

    Tour at 9:00

    The last day of rough northeasterliy winds today! Still the wind speed was low enough to have a nice whalesafari: A group of 4 Harbour Porpoises and 1 Minke Whale with its powerful blow just 50 meter in fron

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    Tour at 13:00

    Cancelled due to high wind speed. We hope for better weather tomorrow afternoon... !

     

    Tour at 9:00

    Cancelled due to high wind speed.