Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00

    It was still so beautiful like in the morning, still no wind and still very good visibility. Again we spotted whales rather early. We were able to watch two different groups of white-beaked dolphins and two minke whales. The first dolphin group showed a lot of interest in th

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    Tour 13:00

    Another good sunny day. Birds so many, that we counted more than 10 flocks. Mainly artic terns, Gulls and Puffins, few Skuas has been spotted as well. Whales were out there, too. Minke whales especially. Wes potted two of them and one of these two of big, slowly surfacing and a

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    Tour 13:00

    Another beautiful sunny day, flat sea and excellent visibility. Birds were still many out at sea, many Puffins, Gulls and artic terns. Minke whales still around. We had a single sighting with a very rare couple of Minke whales, tighly surfacing, that were all time very clsoe to

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    Tour at 13:00

    The whales were even more difficult in the afternoon. We spotted two minke whales but both dived always a long time between the breathing. We saw three times just the blow the first whale. The second one we could see better. Actually we could smell the minke whales, but they

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    Tour at 13:00 This tour was a bit similar to the morning tour. The first whales we spotted dived too long for us so we went on. But at the end of the tour, again rather far out in the bay, we finally spotted a few minke whales feeding. One even loungefed once!!! Like in the morning, there was fo

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    Tour at 13:00

    It got quiet out there in Faxaflói bay. Suddenly there was not as much life as in the morning. The whales were taking a siesta :-)  and we had to spend some time searching for them. At the end of the tour though we had spotted three minke whales and one dolphin.

     

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    Tour at 13:00

    Hafsúla We went to the area where we spotted the whales this morning. Many feedin birds where there: seagulls, Arctic terns, guillemots, razorbills and puffins. Unfortunately we couldn't see many puffins on the puffin Island. We had two rather short sightings today: two mink

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    Tour at 13:00

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    Tour at 9:00

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    Tour at 13:00

    Tour has been cancelled due to unfavourable conditions.

     

    Tour at 9:00

    We left again from Hafnafjörður harbour because we had strong winds today. So it was a rather rough tour but dispite of the wind we spotted a group of white-beaked dolphins today.  L

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    Tour at 13:00

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    Tour at 9:00

    What a windy and wet day! We left from Hafnafjörður this morning. where we had some shelter from the land. We spotted there close to the harobur many harbour porpoises. Further out in the bay we spotted a blow and after a short

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    Tour at 13:00

    We did leave from Hafnarfjörður for our afternoon tour. Weather improved a little bit. We have been looking long for whales and we did spot two Minke whales, one just surfacing once and another one jumping making large spashes. Then we even spot a group of three White-beaked

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    Tour 13:00

    The windy went down and also he whales started coming out more and more. We saw two Minke whales, one of which was feeding underneath a flock of birds, then we even had a couple of travelling White-beaked dolphins and also a group of them which were very much approaching us, ve

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    Tour at 13:00

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    Tour at 13:00

    Like in the morning we spent some time searching but then went straight to the area where we spotted the whales this morning. We spotted a blow and waited for the whale to whom the blow belonged when we suddenly spotted another, huge blow in the distance. We went right away

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    Tour 13:00

    The sky cleared up and the sun came out. Beautiful sunny day, still some wind and the whales even more spectacular than this morning. We had a group of 3 to 4 White-beaked dolphins in front of us, even travelling underwater to the boat. Then we had a fantastic sighting with a H

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    Tour 13:00

    A windy aftenoon and rainy but we had a good tour. In fact, we could spot a Humpback whale, which stayed withus for at least 20 minutes, always surfacing pretty close and once it even went down for a deep dive showing the fluke out. Fantastic!

     

    Tour 9:00

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    Tour at 13:00

    Again we spent quite much time searching. This time we went further out to a certain area where we sometimes spot whales when we can not find them at our usual areas. And indeed we spotted there two minke whales. The second one suddenly came up to breath in front of the boat

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    Tour at 13:00

    Again we left from Keflavík harbour but the humpbacks were no longer in the area where we left them this morning. We searched for quite a while till we found a group of nice and interesting white-beaked dolphins. Later we went to an area where we saw many birds feeding. Ther

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    Tour at 13:00

    The weather improved a lot and it calmed down by the time we started off for the afternoon tour. It was actually a nice but rather wet tour. It rained a lot and much. We spotted one nice minke whale and on the way back to the harbour a big group of harbour porpoises crossed