Whale diary

Tour at 17:00Report from Hafsúlan: The wind picked up a little from this morning but it was very sunny and we had a great view of Reykjavik and it‘s surrondings. We had to sail out a bit before we spotted a Minke Whale. This Minke was a very calm and surfacing all around us and sometimes very cl

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: we went straight out to where our sistership Elding had seen a Minke Whale just before. It was not exactly there and it took us a little while to find a Minke Whale but in the end we found our first and spent the next hour or so following 1-3 individual

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: The sea was rough and the weather very windy and we unfortunately didn't see any cetaceans on this tour but quite a lot of birds. Complimentary tickets were given to all passengers to try their chance another time.

Tour at 14:00

We started

Tour at 17:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We started our evening tour with the island Engey and after seeing the puffins we went into the bay. On our way out we found two harbour porpoises. They were not shy and surfaced several times close to the boat. We did not have to search long until we foun

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: Great tour with 4 Minke Whales and 30-50 Harbour Porpoises quite close to the boat. The tour started at Engey to see the Atlantic Puffins. We had not sailed far before spotting our first cetaceans, a large pod of cute entertaining Harbour Porpoises. The

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding : We started the tour at Engey, this island with a Puffin colony recovering slowly. We saw few Puffin but really good view on them standing in front of theire burrow. There was also a load of black-Backed seagull, fulmars, kittywakes ... We then headed off

Tours at 13:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:30 are unfortunately cancelled due to strong winds out in the bay. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. If you require any more information please come and visit us, office is open till 2100 (9pm) tonight or give us a call at 5553565

Tour at 10:00

Tour at 17:00 and 20:30

Due to bad weather unfortunately we had to cancel our evening tour.

Tour at 14:00

Report from Elding: Gay Pride Minke Whale Extravaganza. This tour was great, not only did we go to a new island to see the Puffins but the Minke Whale we saw was incr

Tour at 20:30 & 17:00

Due to bad weather conditions unfortunately we had to cancel our evening tour.

Tour at 14:00

Report from Elding: We went from Reykjavík on this tour and first went to lundey and once again we were not disappointed there were loads there. Then we saile

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: Again we started in Hafnafjirðir to have a better shelter from land. We sailed into an area where our other vessel spotted a Minke Whale in the tour before but unfortunately there was nothing to find on our tour. After a long searching we sailed back to

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: after the unsuccessful tour in the morning, we decided to try a different strategy and a different area. Instead of going out in the bay, we decided to sail not so far from land and along the Sudurnes Peninsula towards Garðskagi Peninsula. The little su

Unfortunately we have to cancel our midnight tour due to bad weather on the bay.

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: It was a grey afternoon today when we headed out search for the whales. It did not take us a long time to spot a minke whale not far away from land! And what a minke

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: It was a little bit cloudy when we headed out tonight. After visiting Lundey we started to search for the whales right away in hope to find the whales and dolphins close to land like they had been all day. We searched in the area with no luck so we headed

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding : The weather was awesome so we were optimistic about the tour. We only saw 2 Puffin on Akurey tonight (they were probably feeding at sea) but lots of other birds : Black-backed seagulls, fulmars, kittywakes, greylag goose, eyder ducks. We headed offshore

Tour 20:30

Report from Elding: What a beautiful tour in Faxafloi Bay, great sunset and the moon fronting the sun at the same time. Pink and orange colors all around in the sky. But no puffins on akurey island. The guide spotted after 35 minute of sailing out a minke whale 300 meters fr

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: The sky cleared up late afternoon but the wind picked up a little bit so the sea was a little bit choppy. We started the tour at Puffin Island and there was many birds around. Then we headed offshore to search for cetaceans. Unfortunately tonight we could

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: We just simply can't get enough of these midnight tours! The beauty is really indescribable with the sun sitting behind Snæfellsjökull (Snælfellsglacier) and lot of colours in the sky. We managed to find a small pod of white-beaked dolphins and they w

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: We sailed out in beautiful weather and looking forward to the sunset and whales. We started at Akurey to see the Puffins, there were few around but most must be out at sea catching fish. We then headed to the area out sister vessel Hafsúlan found a very g

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding: The puffin Island was our first destination in our trip. Great start ! A lot of Puffins were flying around the Island when we stopped, we saw also some other birds like de Greater Blacke-Backed seagull, some Oystercatcher, Fulmars, Kittywakes and Eyder Du

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding : The sky cleared up just before we started the tour, the conditions where perfect ! So just after having gone to Akurey to watch a few Puffins and others birds we headed offshore. The sea was pretty quite, the Pilot Whales are probably more offshore now a