Whale diary

Unfortunately due to rough weather conditions we have cancelled our whale watching tour today. Please contact our ticket office for more information. +354 519 5000 or elding@elding.is

Unfortunately we have decided to cancel today's tour due to unfavourable weather conditions at sea. Please contact our ticket office for further information +354 519 5000 or elding@elding.is

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Report from Hafsúlan: we went out from Hafnarfjörður today as there we would be sheltered more than if we had gone from Reykjavik. Given the terrible snow storm and no visibility on the bus to Hafnarfjörður, we were pleasantly surprised to find that o

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Report from Hafsúlan: as this tour would be the last one before the strong storm hit tonight, we were hoping to repeat yesterday's success with the dolphins but sadly we were not lucky once we left Reykjavik harbour. The wind became ever stronger as we were out, the wate

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Report from Hafsúlan: we were not more than mile from the harbour when we found the white-beaked dolphins again, they seemed to have split up into smaller pods but we still saw maybe 30 plus close and in the distance. It was very beautiful how the low, warm, winter sun c

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Report from Hafsúlan: We were pleasantly surprised by how many lovely passengers joined us on a whale watching excursion today. A boat full of festive folks. During the month of December we offer our passengers a nice warm christmas drink with apple, cinnamon, cloves, or

Unfortunately we have decided to cancel today's tour due to unfavourable weather conditions at sea. Please contact our ticket office for further information +354 519 5000 or elding@elding.is

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Report from Hafsúlan: Today we departed from Hafnarfjörður as that is where we left the boat yesterday and we decided to use the trip to bring it back to Reykjavik as the forecast for the weekend seems to allow tours from there and hopefully that will

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Our first tour in the month of Desember took place today after three cancelled days in a row due to storm. We left from Keflavik and sailed towards Hafnarfjörður as we knew we would be mostly sheltered by land from the strong south-western wind. We started by sailing up

Due to rough weather conditions we have decided to cancel today's tour. Please contact us for further details +354 519 5000 or elding@elding.is.

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Unfortunately we need to cancel our whale watching tour yet again today due to rough weather at sea. Please contact our ticket office if you require more info.

ALL tours today are cancelled due to hurricane like storm. Please contact our office for further information.

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Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: It was a busy day for us here at Elding Whale Watching with over 200 passengers joining us for a sea adventure that we needed to take out both of our big whale watching vessels, Elding and Hafsúlan. The weather calmed down enough for one day

Unfortunately due to rough conditions at sea, we have decided to cancel the whale watching tour today. Please contact our ticket office for further details (+354 519 5000 or elding@elding.is).

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Report from Hafsúlan: And there were Orcas! Yay! Our first since July! The tour started with another boat telling us that they had seen a few white-beaked dolphins but by the time we arrived, the dolphins had vanished. Disappointed, but knowing we had the whole tour ahea

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Report from hafsúlan: the bay was beautiful this day, it had snowed in the night so the mountains around us were white and the sun gave the clouds orange and red colors. We had only sailed for 30 minutes when a passenger spotted a dolphin on one side of the boat.  W

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Report from Hafsúlan: It was a blustery day out on the bay, hence we decided to sailed out of the harbour of Hafnafjörður, a town 20 minutes drive from Reykjavík to gain shelter from the southwesterly winds. Sea conditions were good where we were and saw a pod of 6-8 whi

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Report from Hafsúlan: this was a good tour despite the strong south-southwestern wind. Nothing happened for a while until my co-guide Sigurlaug suddenly spotted some dorsal fins very close as she was standing at the rear of the boat. First we saw one, then two, then thre

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Report from Hafsúlan: The weather was similar to yesterday, not so windy and quite calm water. We sailed out to the area where we had seen the dolphins on the yesterday tour. When we were arriving we saw big flocks of sea birds flying around and we knew that was a good s

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Report from Hafsúlan: the sea conditions were really good today so the sailing was very soft and it was easy for us to spot animals coming up to the surface from a great distance. We had only been sailing for 40 minutes when we spotted 3 white-beaked dolphins in front of us.