Whale diary

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsulan: The skies looked a little dark on our way out, but soon the rain stopped, the sun came out and the sea was calm...but not for long. The wind picked up again and the rain came back. Our passengers were very commited and stayed with me through what seemed

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: It was raining when we started today's last whalewatching tour, but the group of 10 brave sailors that joined us was well equipped with our warm overalls and full of positive attitude - "There is no bad weather, just wrong clothing!". Anyways, the sea w

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: It really is incredible how wildlife changes. The puffinns were all on the island and we did see two Minke Whales and 2-3 White-beaked Dolphins but they all seemed to be sleeping, travelling very slowly and almost stealth like as sometimes you could jus

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    Tour at 17:00:Report from Hafsúlan: We started the tour with a visit to the Puffin Island, Akurey and watched the bird life there for some minutes. After we headed out we could see that the weather wasn't as perfect as in the morning but it was still good. We had to sail for a while before we sa

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out from Reykjavik harbour in beautifully calm seas and the suns rays shining through the clouds. We started at Akurey and were not disappointed about all the puffins that were sitting on the waters surfaces and on the island. We then headed o

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Elding: Sailing out faxa bay this evening, we were facing a sea that had calmed a lot and here and there the sun was even breaking through the clouds. Since visibility turned out to b quite good, we were optimistic to spot cetaceans during this evening's tour. In

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    The tours today have unfortunately been cancelled due to unfavourable weather conditions. If you have any questions you can come to our office between 8-19, call us on 519 5000 or email us at elding@elding.is.

     

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    Tour at 17:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We headed out again from Reykjavík in the same weather as earlier that day. We decided to head a bit further out and look at a different area than in the tour before. We sailed through a few flocks of Arctic Terns that were feeding on fish in the sea. Unfortu

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    Tour at 17:00 Report from Hafsúlan: The weather was amazing as we headed out and we decided to go straight to the area were we have been in the last tours. After about 50 minutes of sailing and searching we saw some harbour  Porpoises that surfaced around us and soon after that the first Minke W

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Sailing out in much calmer weather we started our tour by stopping at Lundey, puffin island. There were not that many birds around so we decided to take a look on the other side of the island and there were much more puffins around. After a while we

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    Tour at 14:00

    Report from Elding: We sailed out in quite a windy weather and the sea was quite rough. We stopped at Akurey first and we saw a lot of puffins on the island and also flying around. After a while we headed further out to the area where Hafsúlan had seen the White Beaked Dolph

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    Tour at 17:00: Report from Hafsúlan. It had gotten a bit colder since earlier that day. We headed out towards the area where we had seen the Minke Whales. After about 40 minutes we saw one Minke Whale. It was rather shy and we only saw it surface three times. We spotted some more Minke Whales, p

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Again we sailed out in excellent sea conditions to visit Lundey the puffin island. There were not many birds around so we headed out to find some whales. It took us about 45 minutes before we encountered the first Minke Whale. It was very nice to stay w

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    The tours today have unfortunately been cancelled due to unfavourable weather conditions. If you have any questions you can come to our office between 8-19, call us on 519 5000 or email us at elding@elding.is.

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    Tour at 09:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: It was a windy morning today in Reykjavik's harbour, but a group of brave sailors went out on a whale watching journey in Faxa Bay. We shortly visited the puffin island Akurey where we lingered a while watching the "Clown of the Sea", the Atlantic Puffi

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: There was some true sailors that wanted to join us on this afternoons tour, we let our passengers know that it was going to be choppy out on the water this evening but they all wanted to join us. We started the tour at one of our puffin islands close to

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Once again we sailed out with rainy weather, which dampened our spirits a little bit, but later on it became very beautiful with a few blue scattered areas in the skies and a stunning rainbow. We started our tour at Lundey puffin Island to say hello to

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: It always surprises me how quickly nature changes. The wind had calmed down to almost nothing, the wildlife activity had picked up a lot, it was incredible. At one point in our tour we had 3 Minke Whales surface at the same time but heading different di

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    Tour at 17:00

    We left from Reykjavík harbor. The sun was shining and setting on the horizon. The waves had settled from earlier on today and it was more or less smooth sailing. We saw a few puffins at Lundey, but most of them seemed to be out at sea. Once at sea we saw one if not two mink