Whale diary

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed out from Reykjavík, it was a bit windy. We set sail to where we had seen the whales this morning. On the way we see two pods of Harbour Porpoises, probably around 20 individuals together. We didn't stop to watch them but continued sailing. When we g

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed out from Reykjavík and headed straight to where we had seen the humpback whale this morning. We came in to a big flock of birds and then we saw a humpback whale. We sailed towards it and saw that these were actually two whales. We watched them for a

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: Awesome afternoon with 200-300 White beaked Dolphins which were very spread out. A couple of times we could watch the dolphins schooling fish into a tight cluster and hitting the fish with their tails to stun the fish making them easier to catch. After a while

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan. The weather was once again perfect with a mirror calm sea and a strong sun. We sailed from Reykjavik Harbour to the area we saw the dolphins this morning. On the way we maybe saw 4-5 different pods of Harbour Porpoises (with 5-20 in each pod. After about an ho

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed out with an overcast sky and a bit of rain but it didn´t last long. The sea condition was very good and we only really got to feel the cold on the way back when heading into the wind. We tried looking for the MInke Whale that we saw at the end of the

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Report from Hafsúlan and Elding; Easter has come and brought the sun with it and the passengers too. We had to take two boats out this afternoon so that our passengers had room to move. It was beautiful on this tour, it did get a bit chilly on the way back to land but most o

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Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: With all the passengers we had coming with us today we needed to take out two boats so that they all had space to watch the animals and move around the boat. We sailed to the area we found a minke this morning but there was no sign. We travel

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: We headed out from Reykjavík on two boats because of the many passengers. We sailed in different directions to try to scan as much area as possible. After two hours of no luck Elding spotted a Minke Whale. Hafsúlan joined them and we watched the Mi

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We left from Reykjavík and headed to where we had seen the dolphins that morning. After an hour sail we found a pod of White-beaked dolphins. There were about 6-8 individuals. We were following this pod when suddenly a minke whale surfaces very close to the b

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Report from Hafsúlan: We headed out with high hopes because of the morning tour, the weather was not as good, a little more wind and some rain. Sailing around the area were we saw them in the morning there was very little of birds and no sighting of the Orcas although there

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan. The sea was very calm as we headed out for our second tour of the day. We sailed towards where we had seen the Humpback earlier that day. After about an hour we found a humpback whale, maybe even the same one. It surfaced very close to the boat and swam close

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Report from Hafsúlan: We went out with high hopes of seeing some dolphins because of the tour at 9 am and after sailing for about 15 minutes we sure did see some, the biggest of the dolphins, The Killer whale! They were so beautiful, probobly more than 30 animals and you cou

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Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed out today and the sea was calm and the sun was shining. We had been sailing for about 45 minutes when we saw a humpback whale. We followed it for a few minutes but it was ratther elusive  so we decided to head closer to land. There we found tw

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Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: We sailed out today from Reykjavik with high hopes. We took two boats out due to the amount of passengers joining us to day and so by taking two boats passengers had room to move around. It was overcast and the seas were a little rough but al

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: What a great day! We sailed out from the harbour in Reykjavik in a okay weather, it was cloudy but dry and the wind wasn't that strong. We saild for about 40 minutes before we saw a blow ! it was far away but we saw it a couple of times, as we came closer it w

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: What a day in both weather and whales. We sailed out from Reykjavík in beautiful weather, sun shining, calm seas, blue skies and great visability so we could see all the way to Snæfellsjökull. We headed towards the area where whales were seen the day before an

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out from Grindavík today in strong winds but we sailed with the wind for most the tour which gave relatively smooth sailing. We ended the tour in Sandgerði and on the way we saw a lot of seabirds and ORCA!! There was at least 2 maybe 3 families of Or

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Report from Elding: We decided to head out from Reykjavík today as the weather seemed to have reduced. Once we got out into the bay it was a bit choppy and there was some green faces amongst the passangers but still it was a beautiful sunny day but a very cold chill in the a

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We left from Grindavík today in beautiful but windy weather. We sailed East along the Reykjanes Peninsula which gave us a lot of shelter from these very strong winds. The cliffs and seas near land were teaming with wildlife, thousands of seabirds, the landscap