Whale diary

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had picked up a bit from earlier today as we sailed out on the bay. The first hour we saw nothing at all. But then all of a sudden a harbour porpoise was seen very close to the boat, but probably only by the guide. This harbour porpoise did not

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    Tours at 17:00, 14:00 and 13:00Unfortunately we will have to cancel our tours today due to unfavourable weather conditions out at Faxaflói Bay. We are sorry for any inconvinences caused. Our office is open until 9 PM so please drop by or call if you have any concerns about your reservation on th

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The sunset was simply wonderful on our evening tour. We sailed only for about 20 minutes as we spotted the first minke whale. It surfaced several times and we had it relatively close to the boat. We decided to go further on as we saw another minke w

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: What an evening, the evening light was stunning and there was so many Minke Whales I lost count but we at least saw 10 on this tour. The best Minke Whales were at the beginning of the tour and at the end of the tour where they can close and one even

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had picked up again as we headed out towards Akranes, where we had been seeing lots of whales, dolphins and birds today. It started with a feeding minke whale that came very close to us as it surfaced right in front of us several times. Afte

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    Tour at 17:00

    A verry nice tour with good sightings of minke whales.

    Tour at 14:00

    Report from Elding: We headed to where we found the Minke Whales on the last tour and we were glad to find out they were closer to land. It was stunning, Minke Whale in the foreground and Reyk

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    Tour at 17:00Report from Hafsúlan: When we sailed out of the old harbour in Reykjavík it was raining a little bit but after few minutes the raining stopped and the sea was much calmer than this morning. So we sailed on in this perfect whale watching weather but after only few minutes of sailing

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had picked up a little bit this afternoon. Again we managed to spot a minke whale quite early in the tour. This minke was just great! It was surfacing really close to the boat allowing us to both hear it and see it very clearly. After a long

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Unfortunately it was a little bit rainy on our evening tour - but most of our passengers weared an overall and could stay with it outside without becoming too wet. We saw a group of harbour porpoises again very close to the boat. They surfaced often

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The first minke whale that we saw on our evening tour just surfaced in front of the boat and we could enjoy it several times very close to us. But it was not the only whale in the bay and on the whole tour we saw in total 7 to 8 minke whales. It was

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúla: The wind had picked up a bit when we headed out this afternoon. It took us a very long time to find our first minke whale. This one only surfaced few times but quite close to us, allowing us to hear it exhale. After a short stop with the minke we hear

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    Tour at 17:00Report from Hafsúlan: The wind picked up a little from this morning but it was very sunny and we had a great view of Reykjavik and it‘s surrondings. We had to sail out a bit before we spotted a Minke Whale. This Minke was a very calm and surfacing all around us and sometimes very cl

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: we went straight out to where our sistership Elding had seen a Minke Whale just before. It was not exactly there and it took us a little while to find a Minke Whale but in the end we found our first and spent the next hour or so following 1-3 individual

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The sea was rough and the weather very windy and we unfortunately didn't see any cetaceans on this tour but quite a lot of birds. Complimentary tickets were given to all passengers to try their chance another time.

    Tour at 14:00

    We started

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    Tour at 17:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We started our evening tour with the island Engey and after seeing the puffins we went into the bay. On our way out we found two harbour porpoises. They were not shy and surfaced several times close to the boat. We did not have to search long until we foun

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Great tour with 4 Minke Whales and 30-50 Harbour Porpoises quite close to the boat. The tour started at Engey to see the Atlantic Puffins. We had not sailed far before spotting our first cetaceans, a large pod of cute entertaining Harbour Porpoises. The

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding : We started the tour at Engey, this island with a Puffin colony recovering slowly. We saw few Puffin but really good view on them standing in front of theire burrow. There was also a load of black-Backed seagull, fulmars, kittywakes ... We then headed off

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    Tours at 13:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:30 are unfortunately cancelled due to strong winds out in the bay. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. If you require any more information please come and visit us, office is open till 2100 (9pm) tonight or give us a call at 5553565

    Tour at 10:00

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    Tour at 17:00 and 20:30

    Due to bad weather unfortunately we had to cancel our evening tour.

    Tour at 14:00

    Report from Elding: Gay Pride Minke Whale Extravaganza. This tour was great, not only did we go to a new island to see the Puffins but the Minke Whale we saw was incr

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    Tour at 20:30 & 17:00

    Due to bad weather conditions unfortunately we had to cancel our evening tour.

    Tour at 14:00

    Report from Elding: We went from Reykjavík on this tour and first went to lundey and once again we were not disappointed there were loads there. Then we saile