Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: Today we went out from tha harbour in Hafnafjörður because the sea conditions in Reykjavik waren't so good, but from Hafnarfjörður it was really good apart from a little wind ! After a short sailing we saw a pod of White-beaked Dolphins jumping around and hunt

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out in beautiful weather once again. At first it was a little bit chilly but in some areas of the bay (where we were for example) it was almost mirror calm. blue skies with the clouds rolling in at the end and of course the snow capped mountains and

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: Today the weather was amazing, clear sky and sun with a little bit of wind ! although it looks like the summer is on it's way, it's still cold outside, but it does'nt really matter because the sun is here. We saw 2 pod's of Harbour Porpoise's, first pod had ma

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: Summer is definately on its way, its incredable to have this weather at the beginning of February. Flat calm seas, snow-capped mountains and blue skies. Who can ask for anything more. We got to see a wonderful pod of White-beaked Dolphins, maybe 40-50 all toge

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    Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out once again from Reykjavík as the last couple of days have been very good. The wind had picked up a little bit but it was still very nice conditions. Today we got to see two pods of White-beaked Dolphins. There were about 4 or 5 dolphins in

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan. Once again we sailed out from Reykjavik on a beautiful day. My favourite time of year with the snow on top of the mountains and the light so perfect that you could see every detail of the mountains too and the fresh crisp cold air. It was wonderful. We sailed

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out of Reykjavík Harbour on a beautiful day. Sun was shining, sea conditions were great and the snow-capped mountains showed every detail. After about 10 minutes of sailing a passenger came to me the guide and said he thought he saw something about 1

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsulan: Today we sailed once again from Hafnafjörður. It was a beautiful day and not very cold at all. We had a very calm sailing for most of the trip but got a little cold and a bit more swell torwards the end. At one point we had the sun rays in one side and an

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out from Hafnafjörður today as the wind was coming from the South East so we got a lot of protection from the land. We had very smooth sailing for the first half of the tour as we were heading with the swell and wind however, it did get colder and we

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from hafsúlan: We sailed out today from Keflavík and ended the tour in Hafnafjörður. The weather was interchangeable, going from sunny to snowing to hailing to sunny again. It was very beautiful though with the dark dynamic clouds, perfect from photography. It was quite wind

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We left  today from Hafnafjörður in relatively calm weather but overcast. It was a slow start to the tour as we sailed for nearly an hour not even a bird flew past. The bay looked empty but then suddenly the boat slowed down and turned as our lovely First Mate

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    Report from Hafsulan: Today we sailed from Hafnarfjörður, in windy conditions but calm seas and fog that obscured the Reykjanes peninsula. On the way out we spotted a few birds and we began the search in the area we saw dolphins yesterday. Unfortunately we did not find a

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Elding: Today we departed from Hafnarfjörður, it was a very nice day, not too much swell and light wind. We did encounter a few showers and double rainbow along the way. After about 10 minutes some passengers spotted harbour porpoises but they were shy and dove down qui

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Elding. Once again it was beautiful day out on the sea. As we were leaving the harbour in Sandgerði we could already see flocks of feeding seabirds which, are always a very good sign and they were. Just like the last two days it only took us about 10 minutes of leav

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Elding. What a wonderful end to the month. The weather was at its best with blue skies, snow capped mountains, no wind, a little bit of swell and a wintery crisp air. We sailed out once again from Sandgerði and once again we were not disappointed. Just 10 minutes of lea

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    Tour ar 13:00 Report from Elding. Today we headed out from Sandgerði, where we had some wet snow and the clouds covered the skies. Just outside the harbour and  not even 10 minutes into the trip we spotted our first Humpback Whale. Once we knew where it was, we started to head near to the whale.

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    Tour at 13:00 Report from Elding Today we had a beautiful day, it was sunny but cold. We headed out from another harbour located at Sangerði. Once we started sailing we encountered a few sea birds, we scanned that area and decided to keep going. Then we started to head torwards some fishing boat