Whale diary

Unfortunately we had to cancel our tour today due to strong winds on the bay. Please contact our ticket office if  there is anything we can help you with.

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Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had calmed down just a bit when we sailed out this gray afternoon. We had sun, rain, wind, hail, rain and sun all in this one tour! We saw lot of sea birds, especially gannets that were diving after fish all around us. We found 2-3 minke whales

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Report from Elding: What a beautiful day! The sun was shining and the sea was calm and nice. We spotted somewhere between 6-8 minke whales and lot of harbour porpoises! We were seeing porpoises throughout the tour and the minke whales kept surprising us by surfacing close

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Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed again out from Grindavík in this afternoon with the lovely clear blue sky above us. We spent a long time searching and in the end we spotted a pod of the small and shy Harbour Porpoises. We saw them coming close to us few times before they dis

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed again out from Grindavík in this windy afternoon to try to get some shelter from the peninsula. We were very exited for this tour since yesterday we saw a Blue Whale on our tour from Grindavík. We sailed on out and marvelled the beautiful land

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Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out once again from Grindavík as the peninsula shielded us from the north easterly winds making the tour that much smoother. We sailed along the coast and admired the stunning multicoloured mountains and cliffs made such because of all the

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Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed again from Grindavík today due to it having better weather there than in Faxaflói. Our hopes were high as they usually are when leaving from Grindavík and last time we went we also saw a very big Humpback Whale. We sailed through all of our

Tour at 13:00Report from Elding: We sailed on out to Faxaflói in this windy afternoon, we were very exited after good tour this morning. There were lots of birds out on the bay this afternoon, diving Northern Gannets and Kittiwakes feeding in the surface. We slowed down the boat to take a better

Tour at 13:00Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had picked up a little since this morning but we had a clear view of the beautiful surroundings in Faxaflói. So we headed out and after a little sail we spotted lots of diving Northern Gannets so we decided to slow the boat down and take a better look

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Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed on out from Grindavík this windy afternoon with the moody clouds above us but at least it did not rain on the tour! We had very high hopes for this tour and we did not get disappointed today. We had to look for a long time before we spotted so

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We knew that the wind would be picking up a bit in the bay so we wanted to take the chance of going from Grindavík where the sea would be less rough thanks to the sheltering of the land. Also on many occasions Grindavik has been very successful, we s

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Report from Hafsúlan: The swell was still there ut the wind had calmed down a lot. It rained more on this tour though which wasn´t nice. We got to see two Minke Whales on the 13:00 tour but one we saw many times and very close to the boat too. We also Harbour Porpoises, t

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: What a tour this was! The fog had cleared up since this morning, so we had beautiful weather and very calm sea. We sailed out Faxaflói and after a little search we saw a pod of White Beaked Dolphins. These dolphins were lovely, coming close at times so

Tour at 13:00Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had slowed down a little since this morning so we had a very beautiful autumn weather and a calm sea. We did not have to sail to far before we saw diving Northern Gannets and when we came closer we saw small pod of Harbour Porpoises there as well. Afte

Tour at 13:00Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had pick up a little since this morning so there was a bit of a swell but here in Iceland, a bit of a wind is not a problem! So we sailed on out the Faxaflói bay, everything looking very promising and the birdlife beeing very lifely. We had to sail for

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Report from Hafsúlan: given the rather disappointing morning, there was but one option, to head straight out to where the dolphins had been seen an hour or so before. However, they had gone off in the meantime, sadly, we love dolphins here at Elding and love to show them.

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Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out from Hafnafjörður on this tour to get a bit more shelter from the land and hopefully find and area that is a bit more productive than the area we covered on the morning tour. It took us quite a while before we saw anything but when we d

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We went straight out to where we had left the dolphins two hours earlier but they were off to somewhere and we did not see them on this tour. We did however see Minke Whale (1) and Harbour Porpoises (4-5). First we saw the porpoises and spent a few minutes watching them. But

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had picked up a little bit since this morning but the weather was still very nice, the sun was shining and the sea pretty calm. We sailed out for quite a while before we saw our first cetaceans of the tour, they turned out to be a small pod of

Tour at 13:00

Report from Elding: The sun was shining this beautiful afternoon when we headed out in Faxaflói. Once we got out we did not see that many birds around. There were few gannets and not many of them feeding, and the fulmars were just sitting on the water surface. We searched