Whale diary

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: We started the tour on a very calm sea. We stopped at Puffin island but there were not many birds so we didn't stay too long. Out at sea conditions were perfect to spot whales from far away but for more than an hour we sailed with no signs of cetacean. Fo

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: We had no luck finding whales this evening. There was a decent amounts of birds in the puffin island Akurey and a few birds here and there out on the bay, among them gannets. Apart from that we did not see much life this evening despite keeping a good loo

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The weather was still being very nice to us this evening. We sailed out in the bay in very calm sea with clouds all around us which made things little bit mysterious. We found about 3-4 minke whales this evening. At one point we were following 2 or 3 of the

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding : Beautiful seau conditions for this midnight tour ! We started at Puffin Island but there were not a lot of birds tonight. We continue our trip out in Faxafloi Bay sailing into the sun going down. The sea was flat calm and we had the chance to have a grea

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hasùlan: Awesome tour !! The weather was beautiful all day long so I was expecting a great evening ... and it was !! The sea was almost flat when we left Puffin Island after we watched just a few Puffins (but an Artic Skua from really close). We headed offshor an

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding : We knew knew from the previous tour that it was not easy today but we started the tour under a beautiful sky so we were really optimistic. Unfortunately we searched for 1 hour and a half without any success. We saw some splash really far on the horizon t

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: The wind was still very strong when we headed out this evening. We knew that we had to go very far so we went straight out with the wind in our face the whole time. It was very difficult in the beginning but once we got out there we did not regret a

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    Tour at 20:30

    Unfortunately we will have to cancel the 20:30 tour due to unfavourable weather conditions out at Faxaflói Bay. Our office is open until 9 PM so please drop by or call if you have any concerns about your reservation on this tour. We will be happy to help.

    Tour at 17:

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    Tour at 2030

    Unfortunately we will have to cancel this tour due to unfavourable weather conditions out at Faxaflói Bay. Our office is open until 9 PM so please drop by or call if you have any concerns about your reservation on this tour. We will be happy to help.

     

    Tour at 17

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: What a beautiful night! The weather conditions were really good, the wind dropped since the night before so we were pretty optimistic. We stopped at Puffin Island on the way out to “warm up the cameras”. Then we were supposed to sail 40 minutes before

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: It was quite windy on this tour but clear blue skies and excellent visibility. We could see the Snæfellsjökull glacier very well and especially towards the end of the tour with the sun almost at the horizon it was beautiful on the Faxaflói bay. However we

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    Tour at 13:00, 14:00, 17:00 & 20:30

    Unfortunately we had to cancel the remainder of today's tours because of bad weather conditions.

    Tour at 10:00

    Report from Skrúður: We weather was very beautiful in the bay when we headed out this Monday morning. We started the tour by vis

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    Tour at 2030 Sadly we had to cancel this tour due to unfavourable weather out in Faxaflói Bay. We contacted everyone who had reservations and offered them alternative tours.

    Tour at 1700

    Report from Hafsúlan: We were all prepared that there is swell in the bay when we left

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    Tour at 2030

    Report from Elding: with Fin Whales only having been seen on two tours last year in Faxaflói Bay (we saw them as well when we went from other harbours) we have been waiting in excitement for what this year might bring. It turns out that these are fine Fin Whale days. Indeed t

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: What a night! After visiting the puffins in Akurey we headed out to search for the whales. When we were sailing out we could feel that something was in the air...and in only few minutes we got one proof of it! A BREACHING MINKE WHALE! This was just unbeli

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from elding: What a great night ! We started the tour at Puffin Island where we could see a lot of Puffins !! We then headed offshor and it didn't take us a long time before we spotted the first Minke whale. We stayed with this friendly whale for a while and we could

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    Tour at 2030

    Report from Hafsúlan : it took us well over an hour to find the first Minke Whale on this tour but what a show-off individual it was! We saw it breaching (jumping into the air) from some hundred meters away and sailed directly there. Time and time again it breached and the sp

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsùlan : We sailed out from Reykjavik older harbor in beautiful sea and weather conditions, cloudy but no wind so it felt really warm. We first stopped at Puffin Island on the way out, there we got to see a lot of our favorite birds. It didn't take a long time

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: We had to sail about half an hour in the amazing weather until we saw a huge flock of birds ahead. We headed towards them and they were there by the thousands. Of course we expected to see some whales there but none surfaced while we were there. We then h