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A wonderful afternoon tour! We spotted all four cetacean species which live in Faxaflói bay. First we spotted a breaching humpback whale from far away and stayed with it for a little bit when we finally reached it. Throughout the w
This afternoon the wind had picked up a little bit, but the sea was still pretty calm. We headed out again and sailed a bit further than this morning. We found a Minke whale, but then headed out a little further and found a Humpback whale! In the same area there were a few M
Another successful tour this evening. We were able to find a Humpback whale again, and observed it very closely, almost always less than 30m from the boat, and often almost touching the boat! It even slapped its flukes on the surface once when it was just less than 10m away
The sea was calm and flat, very suggestive light condiitions and still a lot of whales around. We had some minke whales at the beginning, some pretty close suddenly turning towrads us and further away even a group of more than 10! And on our way back a humpback whale has bee
We had 3 main sightings of a Minke whale. They came pretty close to our boat. We could observe ever their pointed beak. After a while we spotted also two groups of White beaked dolphins. They were traveling very fast, but it was possible to follow them. At the end of the tou
It was still very good out at sea: a lot of minke whales all around us, couple surfacing together, some approached us even les than 30 meters and we had the chance to spot the same humpback whale again. It was really relaxed towards us, slowly surfacing and coming towards us
Another successful trip, we saw a few Minke whales, and had another group of dolphins playing around the boat. At the end of the trip we found a Humpback whale which showed its flukes twice, before we had to leave and go back to the harbour.
Report from Elding: We headed out to the area where we had the Humpback whale, and as we sailed towards it, we saw some tail lobbing in the distance. We came close to the Humpback whale and it carried on tail lobbing, causing some big splashes. We were lucky enough to see th
This late afternoon tour has been really special: the sea conditions were perfect and the whales very active! In fact, we had a lot of white-beaked dolphins, probably two groups, fast travelling, and even jumping, then we spotted a minke whale and we even had a humpback whale,
The wind was very little and the sea got very flat. The light was really amazing and we had a nice tour. We had a lot of minke whales some were really close to our boat: we counted at least 10 individuals during the all tour. We had the chance as well to spot a group of whit
Report from Elding: The wind had picked up a bit and the weather looked quite rainy. Not as much life out on the bay as previously, but nonetheless we found the Humpback whale again which we observed for a while, before we went to look for the Minke whales. We had a brief lo
The wind was encreasing and we decided to cancell the tour :(
Sunhine and a strong wind were our companion on the afternoon tour. Despite of that we had really good sightings: many minke whales and one humpback whale. A nice tour with adve
This time the wind had picked up a little bit, but the sea was still nice and calm. We went out to the same area as the previous two trips, but unfortunately there wasn't much life out there. We sailed on a bit and spotted quite a few Minke whales, usually just surfacing onc
A very nice tour out at sea: the wind calmed down a lot during this late afternoon tour. We saw a lot of flock of feeding seabirds and in particular we ended up in an area with more than 1000 birds. There were a ot of gannets dropping down into the sea, it was extremly spectacu
A very nice and unforgettable tour out sea: two main sightings of feeding minke whales in asociation with seabirds. We had a very large flock of puffins, guillemots, kittiwakes and even gannets feeding with 3 minke whales, one of which surfaced rolling on one side and showin
The weather worsened even more and we had some very big waves. This made it more and more difficult to get close to the whales, so our passengers had to observe them from a distance this time. We spotted a few individuals, but they didn't surface often. A very adventurous tr
Really a wet day today! It kept on raining on this tour, as well. We spotted two minke whales and a group of white-beaked dolphins. We saw the dolphins jumping and breaching, too!
This afternoon the rain was still coming down but again we
It got a little bit windier in comparison to the morning and early afternoon tours but we had a very nice tour out at sea. We first spotted a couple of minke whales, which unfortunately surfaced only once. We then decided to keep on going and we ended up in a very suggestive
It starts to be more windy than during the day. On the way out we watched the Puffin island. Later Minke whales, two of them traveling very close to us. We saw many blows all around. We followed one Minke whale and observed it from a close distance. It was slow traveling an
The wind calmed down and the sea was really calm, and thanks to these ood conditions we spotted a lot of minke whales and especially th one we spotted at the end of the tour approached us a lot. A lot of sea birds and puffins on Akurey.
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