Whale diary

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The rain stopped before our tour started, so we found again great conditions of a calm, flat sea. We were hoping to find the food rich area from the tour before and after a while we reached it. A lot of seabirds were around like black-backed seagulls fo

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The weather was getting better in the evening and the sea conditions were really good so we could easily see animals from greater distance. While we headed futher out we got news from another whale watching boat that they had seen a whale. When we came

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We took our way out to Faxaflói behind Engey (one of the puffin colony island) in the shelter of Esja heading towards Akranes while the wind was blowing quite strong. So we had a quiet ride out but as we didn't see any cetacean in this area we opened ou

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The winds were still nonexistent in the Faxaflói bay as we headed out at 5 pm. We went to the area where we had seen the minke whales on an earlier tour and did find them again. However, this time the minke whales were not surfacing as frequently as bef

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The northerly winds had picked up as we sailed out of the harbour this afternoon. After around 45 minutes into the tour, a big splash was seen in front of the boat. It must have been from a minke whale or a humpback whale but we did not get to see it ag

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: better conditions than today allowed us to take a somewhat different route out this evening. We sailed more directly out instead of going close to the shore. The midnight sun was stunning on this tour, the last midnight one of this summer, and we were fol

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    Tour at 17:00 and 20:30

    has unfortunately been cancelled today because of the unfavourable sea conditions and whale difficulty. Sorry for the inconvenience and if you require further information please come and see us at the office (open till 9pm), call us on +354 519 5000 or email us on

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    Tour at 20:30

    Unfortunately we took the difficult decision to cancel this evenings tours due to unfavourable sea conditions and difficult minke whales. Sorry for the inconvenience and if you require further information please come and see us at the office (open till 9pm), call us on +354

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: Though there had been some rain over the course of the day we had a nice dry tour, add that to clear sky over the volcano Snæfellsjökull and we had weather that was just... spectacular. Trying to describe the sunset tonight is pretty difficult, across the

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: The clouds were dark as we headed out tonight and after searching for over a hour we spotted 1 Minke whale that surfaced very close to the boat. Unfortunately the waves were getting higher and the minke whale was very hard to follow, so it disappeared a

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The boat was sailing out showered in the warm sun rays of the midnight sun. Almost no cloud and wind made the trip very enjoyable weather wise. Really early in the tour we discovered a Minke Whale surfacing and changing directions frequently. The fishfind

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: after some midnight tours of late on which it was hard to find whales, this one was providing us with a strange feeling and the rainy weather and poor visibility did not help. However, only minutes after leaving Reykjavik, we came across some Harbour Porp

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: Calm seas greeted us this evening as we headed out onto Faxa bay for the sixth and final time today. We had reports of a cetacean very close to the harbour from the previous tour so we started searching right of the bat. Unable to spot that cetacean we co

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    Tour at 20:30

    Unfortunately we had to cancel the evening tour as the weather conditions were getting worse. We are sorry for inconveniences caused.

    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: It was quite windy as we headed out. We decided to sail south along the Reykjanes peninsula

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: we went out under darkening skies and rainy conditions and went straight out to where Hafsúlan had seen the Humpback Whale just an hour or two before. Unfortunately it had vanished into the blue sea and we did not find it. We continued searching despite t

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The sun was peaking out from the clouds as we headed out this evening. After sailing for about a hour we spotted a Minke Whale. The animal surfaced 2-3 times before it took a deeper dive and after we searched for some time we decided to head further as it

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The sky was fairly cloudy above us but far in the west we could see clear sky where luckily this was where the sun was about to set. Plus fantastic sea conditions made for a great tour even without any whales. But of course we had some great sightings thi

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: This evening was very calm and conditions were good as we headed out into the bay for the sixth and final time today. We had to go quite far out this evening as with previous tours. Our search began where we had seen minkes the last time around and we hop

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The weather had improved considerably as the day wore on and this evening we had near perfect conditions. The skies were overcast and the wind was quite calm. We decided to start out by heading towards where the basking shark seen on previous tours had be

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: It was getting a little windier and colder but it did at least not rain on us when we sailed out into the midnight sun. We sailed for over two hours without any sightings accept from a few sea birds flying around, then we spotted a blow or a splash comi