Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: We sailed out with two boats today as we had just over 200 passengers joined us for today´s adventure. We started out of Reykjavík old harbour and sailed past the two islands of Engey and Viðey towards the town of Akranes, trying the keep the

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: Well it was the last whale watching tour of 2013. We sailed out from Reykjavik with two boats which held the many passengers whom decided to join us on the calm weather day. Calmest wind we have perhaps had throughout December. It was another

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out from Hafnafjörður (town of the elves) into better sea conditions, making the tour as smooth and comfortable as possible. We sailed close to the coast along the Reykjanes Peninsula. The first cetaceans we saw were White-beaked Dolphins, at

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Elding and Hafsúlan: Today we sailed out on two boats from Hafnarfjörður harbour. We headed out of the harbour and sailed west with the wind. Our sail out was rather windy but not to choppy. Not long after we left the harbour Elding spotted a pod of Harbour Porpo

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: We had a large amount of tourists joining us on todays tour, so much so that we had to take two of our boats out. We sailed from Grindavík today as it was forecasted and observed that the sea conditions would be better from there, getting she

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    Christmas Day, Closed all Day

    Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a prosperpus New Year.

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We headed out on to the bay today in very good conditions. Calm seas, slow winds and things were looking quite promising as we sailed out between the puffin islands of Akurey and Engey. We began our search by heading straight out into the bay towards th

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Today the weather was very good with the sun peeking at us from under the clouds and calm seas. Before we left the harbour there was a massive feeding frenzy of birds, mainly Glaucous Gulls, Shags, a couple of Black Guillemots and Eider Ducks. After sai

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Expectations were high as we sailed along the Reykjanes Peninsula to our humpback spot. A couple of stops on the why for fleeting Harbour Porpoises. The sailing was smooth of the way out but wind picked up later on in the day and the ride back with wind

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Todays tour started out with quite some swell. We sailed out from Hafnarfjörður for better seas but even so the boat rocked a lot as we headed out. We sailed along Reykjanes peninsula and on our way west we ran into a pod of White beaked dolphins. They

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