Whale diary

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    Tour at 17:00

    Due to unfavorable weather conditions, the 5 pm tour has been cancelled. For more information please call our ticket office (+(354) 519 5000).

    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Elding: In the afternoon, the wind was blowing very strong and the sky was overcast, but a s

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out of Reykjavik in quite large swells which most passengers enjoyed but one or two ended up with green faces. We searched a very large area and had one sighting of a minke whale in the distance which never showed up again and a few small spla

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We decided to head in the same direction as this afternoon, hoping we would still encounter the animals from earlier today. Unfortunately the bay seemed rather abandoned and even searching in a large area, for a long time didn't help. It was still a bea

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had picked up a bit but it was a beautiful evening light. We were searching for a rather long time until we spotted a pod of White Beaked Dolphins. We saw them a couple of times and than they were gone which was a bit disappointing. We kept on

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out from Hafnafjörður as the Sei Whale should be close and it was, only 20 minutes sailing and we found it again. It was incredible, so big. The third largest of all whales getting up to 21 meters long and weighing up to 45 tons. What is even

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    Unfortunately we have to cancel the whale watching tours at 13:00 and 17:00 due to strong winds in Faxaflói bay. Please contact our ticket office for more information (e-mail: elding@elding.is / phone: +354 519 5000).

     

    Tour at 9:00Report: We headed out from the harbour in Hafnarfjör

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: It was a very calm evening when we sailed out into Faxa Bay. It was a bit foggy offshore but the sea condition was much better than this morning. We were searching for a long long time and we almost lost hope to see something UNTIL a Minke Whale surface

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    Unfortunately, due to unfavourable weather conditions all other whale watching tours have been cancelled today. For more information please call +(354) 519 5000.

    Tour at 09:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: This morning, the sea was very rough, but the sun was shining here and there and rain

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The day was obviously not letting up as the rain continued to try and drench us as we headed south into the bay. The overalls were definitely used to their maximum today to keep our passengers dry and warm. We saw one Minke Whale on this tour which surf

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had freshened up a bit when we sailed out but it was still a very nice sea condition with an unexpected evening sun. We didn´t sail far out before we spotted our first Minke Whale. We stayed with this animal for a while before we decided to hea

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    Tours at 14:00 and 17:00

    Unfortunately we had to cancel the rest of the tours today due to unfavorable weather conditions.

    Tour at 13:00Report from Hafsúlan: The wind was still strong as we headed out, but the sun was out which made the tour a lot more pleasant. We sailed for a lon

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: In the evening, the wind had  picked up even more and we were facing rough conditions with wind, waves and rain out on faxa bay. However, we did not give up and even though we had to sail for almost two hours without seeing anything but the amazing Nort

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    Tour at 17:00Report from Hafsúlan: The clouds had gotten lighter as we sailed out from Reykjavík. We searched for a long time until we saw a very big flock of feeding birds, and so many Northern Gannets that were diving! our fish detector showed that the area was crowded with food but no spottin

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: In the evening, the sea was still rough and once more we had to overcome some waves on our way towards the area where we had seen whales earlier in the day. As we arrived, we spotted once more a group of White-beaked Dolphins. We saw them surfacing a fe

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: A tour that showed a 100% "patience pays off"!! We were searching for almost 2 hours and the bay seemed abandoned until we spotted a Minke Whale which we unfortunately lost after a few minutes but as we kept on looking we spotted another Minke Whale and

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out this evening in slightly calmer weather than this afternoon and again we went south towards where we had been seeing the whales earlier today. Our search began very well as pretty soon we had spotted some harbor porpoises as they swam alon

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    Tour at 17:00

    This evening, we decided to start in hafnarfjordur, but end our tour in Reykjavik since we would cross a very promising area on our way. We were happy to see that the wind had calmed down a bit and were also taking advantage of having the wind coming from behind us on the wa

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    Tour at 17:00

    It was a beautiful evening when we sailed out into Faxa Bay. We spotted a pod of White Beaked Dolphins very close to the harbour and spent some time with them before we sailed on to see a Minke Whale. After a while of searching we saw a Minke Whale in front of us. It surface

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    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We started this tour at Engey to say hello to the Puffins and thrilled to see so many. The sea was still the same, maybe a little less rocky than previous tours. We sailed out too a different area to try our luck there and it was very disappointing. Not