Whale diary

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out in a beautiful weather, very calm sea and sunny sky above us. We sailed to the area were we usually start looking around and after a short while we spotted a Minke Whale! This turned out to be a very good Minke spotting place and in total

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out in very nice weather even though it was quite chilly when heading into the wind. We did see at least 4 Minke Whales on this tour but they were very difficult to show the passangers. They were always surfacing quite far away or always h

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: What a beautiful day out on Faxaflói today! We sailed out of the old harbour in calm weather and headed straight out to start our search. After a little while we saw a Minke Whale coming up to the surface but this turned out to be a very tricky Minke, w

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out in relatively no wind but there was a bit of residual swell. It did rain on and off during the tour which was ok because if you didn´t have the rain and sun you wouldn´t get rainbows, the suns rays escaping through the clouds and dynami

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out today from Hafnafjörður to make the tour a bit smoother sailing and ended the tour in Reykjavík. The rain pretty much fell on us throughout the tour but that was ok because we all used the free overalls onboard to keep us nice and dry a

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out in the very moody looking bay this afternoon with a bit of a swell. Luckily it did not rain much until on the way back home. We only had to search for a little while before we saw a big flock of birds, there was Northern Gannets diving and

Unfortunately we had to cancel our tour today due to strong winds on the bay. Please contact our ticket office if  there is anything we can help you with.

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had calmed down just a bit when we sailed out this gray afternoon. We had sun, rain, wind, hail, rain and sun all in this one tour! We saw lot of sea birds, especially gannets that were diving after fish all around us. We found 2-3 minke whales

Tour at 13:00

Report from Elding: What a beautiful day! The sun was shining and the sea was calm and nice. We spotted somewhere between 6-8 minke whales and lot of harbour porpoises! We were seeing porpoises throughout the tour and the minke whales kept surprising us by surfacing close

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed again out from Grindavík in this afternoon with the lovely clear blue sky above us. We spent a long time searching and in the end we spotted a pod of the small and shy Harbour Porpoises. We saw them coming close to us few times before they dis

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed again out from Grindavík in this windy afternoon to try to get some shelter from the peninsula. We were very exited for this tour since yesterday we saw a Blue Whale on our tour from Grindavík. We sailed on out and marvelled the beautiful land

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out once again from Grindavík as the peninsula shielded us from the north easterly winds making the tour that much smoother. We sailed along the coast and admired the stunning multicoloured mountains and cliffs made such because of all the

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed again from Grindavík today due to it having better weather there than in Faxaflói. Our hopes were high as they usually are when leaving from Grindavík and last time we went we also saw a very big Humpback Whale. We sailed through all of our

Tour at 13:00Report from Elding: We sailed on out to Faxaflói in this windy afternoon, we were very exited after good tour this morning. There were lots of birds out on the bay this afternoon, diving Northern Gannets and Kittiwakes feeding in the surface. We slowed down the boat to take a better

Tour at 13:00Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had picked up a little since this morning but we had a clear view of the beautiful surroundings in Faxaflói. So we headed out and after a little sail we spotted lots of diving Northern Gannets so we decided to slow the boat down and take a better look

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed on out from Grindavík this windy afternoon with the moody clouds above us but at least it did not rain on the tour! We had very high hopes for this tour and we did not get disappointed today. We had to look for a long time before we spotted so