Whale diary

Tour at 17:00: Report from Hafsúlan. It had gotten a bit colder since earlier that day. We headed out towards the area where we had seen the Minke Whales. After about 40 minutes we saw one Minke Whale. It was rather shy and we only saw it surface three times. We spotted some more Minke Whales, p

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: Again we sailed out in excellent sea conditions to visit Lundey the puffin island. There were not many birds around so we headed out to find some whales. It took us about 45 minutes before we encountered the first Minke Whale. It was very nice to stay w

The tours today have unfortunately been cancelled due to unfavourable weather conditions. If you have any questions you can come to our office between 8-19, call us on 519 5000 or email us at elding@elding.is.

Tour at 09:00

Report from Hafsúlan: It was a windy morning today in Reykjavik's harbour, but a group of brave sailors went out on a whale watching journey in Faxa Bay. We shortly visited the puffin island Akurey where we lingered a while watching the "Clown of the Sea", the Atlantic Puffi

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: There was some true sailors that wanted to join us on this afternoons tour, we let our passengers know that it was going to be choppy out on the water this evening but they all wanted to join us. We started the tour at one of our puffin islands close to

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: Once again we sailed out with rainy weather, which dampened our spirits a little bit, but later on it became very beautiful with a few blue scattered areas in the skies and a stunning rainbow. We started our tour at Lundey puffin Island to say hello to

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: It always surprises me how quickly nature changes. The wind had calmed down to almost nothing, the wildlife activity had picked up a lot, it was incredible. At one point in our tour we had 3 Minke Whales surface at the same time but heading different di

Tour at 17:00

We left from Reykjavík harbor. The sun was shining and setting on the horizon. The waves had settled from earlier on today and it was more or less smooth sailing. We saw a few puffins at Lundey, but most of them seemed to be out at sea. Once at sea we saw one if not two mink

Unfortunately all tours today have been cancelled due to unfavorable weather if you have any questions please contact the office. The office is open from 8-18 the number is 555-3565 or you can email us at elding@elding.is.

Tour at 17:00

In the evening, we sailed out once more on this relatively rough, but nice day in Iceland. This time, we decided to visit Akurey in the beginning of the tour to visit the Atlantic Puffins at their breeding grounds. After saying hello to these birds of the Auk family, we head

Tour at 17:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We headed out from Reykjavík as the weather had gotten better than earlier that day. First we made a quick stop by Lundey (Puffin Island). There were not a lot of puffins today but we saw a few. Then we headed out to look for some whales. The wind was rather

Tour at 17:00: Our tour at 17:00 was cancelled due to increasingly bad weather.

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We headed out from Reykjavík. The wind had picked up and it was cloudy but not raining. We went back to Lundey to look at all the beautiful birds and then headed f

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: The weather was stunning on the way out into the bay, It really could not be better with a flat calm sea, only the ripples from the seabirds diving disturbed it. It was incredible to watch the puffins swimming just beneath the sea surface, a very rare t

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: The wind had picked up once more on this evening tour and there was a couple of pale faces but it was nice to be out on the water with the warm sun behind us and the warm evening light was beautiful. We only got to see glimpses of Harbour Porpoises and

Tour at 17:00

Later in the day, we sailed out for a 5 pm tour for the first time in this year. The wind had strengthened and when we were leaving the harbour, we were facing the North Atlantic Ocean. However, everyone seemed to enjoy the little rollercoster ride in Faxa Bay. We ried re

Tour at 13:00

In the afternoon, the weather had become better, so we decided to start sailing from Reykjavik's harbour. We went straight to the island Lundey, where we thoroughly enjoyed watching Atlantic Puffins swimming around and sitting on the island. The area around Lundey was shelte

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out this afternoon with a warm sun, which we definitely needed as the wind had picked up making the tour funnier with a bit of a roller coaster ride. We went to the same area where we left the Minke Whales on the last tour, we saw a blow and w

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsulan: In the afternoon, the wind had strengthened a bit, but the sea was still relatively calm with the sun breaking through the clouds frequently. After about 30 minutes of sailing, we spotted a Minke Whale about 400 meters from our boat, but unfortunately,

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan and Elding : We took two boats out this afternoon because of how many passangers we had. the wind had gotten a little bit stronger but the weather wasn't so bad. and as the tour went on, it only got better. We had only sailed for a hour when we saw the White-be