The northern lights appeared only at the very end of the tour, somewhat faint but still very visible in their green color right over Akranes and the mountain Akrafjall. This concluded our chill tour with success!
Despite a great encounter with white-beaked dolphins in the morning, we decided to offer all our passengers complimentary tickets. In the afternoon we came across a minke whale close to the shoreline, then a lone harbour porpoise and around 20 active white beaked dolphins!
Despite the sky being overcast from the start of the tour, we had high hopes that it would clear as it said in the forecast. As the night progressed however, we unfortunately saw no northern lights and therefore issued complimentary tickets!
On today's tours we encountered up to 30 active white-beaked dolphins, a lone harbour porpoise which surfaced a lot around the back of our boat, about 3 minke whales that only surfaced a couple times and then a beautiful humpback whale!
We sailed towards Viðey island and mt. Esja and managed to spotted a bit of northern lights activity behind the clouds, but they were only visible though the camera and so we offered our passengers complimentary tickets!
Today we had a bit of a swell, but the sun was shining and lifting our spirits! We spotted a couple of minke whales, a pod of about 8 jumping white-beaked dolphins and additionally in the afternoon we also saw a few different pods of harbour porpoises.
This evening we were excited as we were greeted starry skies and already on the way out (having just left the harbour) we could see an arch of northern lights! The lights were with us all evening, sometimes dancing, sometimes stronger and sometimes weaker. It was a truly magical evening!
Unfortunately the sky did not look at the forecast and was completely covered throughout the tour. Despite our best efforts we did not find the northern lights this time and therefore issued complimentary tickets to our passengers!
Due to unfavourable weather conditions in the bay, all whale watching tours have been CANCELLED today!
This morning we had an encounter with about 5 white-beaked dolphins and 2 minke whales in the same area. In the afternoon we also spotted a minke whale and some white-beaked dolphins, however due to the sightings being very quick, we decided to give out complimentary tickets!