Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00, 14:00, 17:00 & 20:30

    Unfortunately we had to cancel the remainder of today's tours because of bad weather conditions.

    Tour at 10:00

    Report from Skrúður: We weather was very beautiful in the bay when we headed out this Monday morning. We started the tour by vis

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    Tour at 2030 Sadly we had to cancel this tour due to unfavourable weather out in Faxaflói Bay. We contacted everyone who had reservations and offered them alternative tours.

    Tour at 1700

    Report from Hafsúlan: We were all prepared that there is swell in the bay when we left

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    Tour at 2030

    Report from Elding: with Fin Whales only having been seen on two tours last year in Faxaflói Bay (we saw them as well when we went from other harbours) we have been waiting in excitement for what this year might bring. It turns out that these are fine Fin Whale days. Indeed t

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: What a night! After visiting the puffins in Akurey we headed out to search for the whales. When we were sailing out we could feel that something was in the air...and in only few minutes we got one proof of it! A BREACHING MINKE WHALE! This was just unbeli

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from elding: What a great night ! We started the tour at Puffin Island where we could see a lot of Puffins !! We then headed offshor and it didn't take us a long time before we spotted the first Minke whale. We stayed with this friendly whale for a while and we could

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    Tour at 2030

    Report from Hafsúlan : it took us well over an hour to find the first Minke Whale on this tour but what a show-off individual it was! We saw it breaching (jumping into the air) from some hundred meters away and sailed directly there. Time and time again it breached and the sp

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsùlan : We sailed out from Reykjavik older harbor in beautiful sea and weather conditions, cloudy but no wind so it felt really warm. We first stopped at Puffin Island on the way out, there we got to see a lot of our favorite birds. It didn't take a long time

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: We had to sail about half an hour in the amazing weather until we saw a huge flock of birds ahead. We headed towards them and they were there by the thousands. Of course we expected to see some whales there but none surfaced while we were there. We then h

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    Tour at 2030

    Report from Elding : We had a beautiful weather during all the tour so everybody enjoyed the sailing. It took us 30 minutes to spot our first Minke Whale, we saw it two times then it disapeared. We headed toward an area where we could see many flocks of bird. We saw a lot of

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    Tour at 20:30

    The wind had picked up a little bit when we sailed out this stunning evening. The day today was little bit difficult and this evening just kept on being a bit strange to us all. We found a minke whale soon. This one was very nice and it surfaced many times in front of us so

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsùlan : WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW !!!! What an amazing tour ! We saw at least three Minke Whales, one came really close to the boat, we actually smelled it before we could see it.  And then more offshore we followed two Humpback Whales for a while, we got to s

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding : there cannot be a better mix than whales and the midnight sun and this tour was absolutely brilliant! Outstanding weather, visibility was perfect, etc. While Puffin Island was almost deserted, the Minke Whales on the tour made up for it. We saw at least

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    Tour at 2030

    Report from Hafsúlan: Good tour this evening in beautiful lighting! We saw lots of birds on Akurey as well as eider ducks and others. We started off witha feeding minke whale, probably a youngster since it was very small. After leaving the younster behind and heading further

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: The weather was still very nice for whale watching. We headed straight to that area we were seeing the minke whales on our previous tours today. We saw lot of birds now in that area who were actively feeding so that was a good sign. Yet again we were ve

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    Tour at 20:30

    Unfortunately the tour was cancelled due to unfavourable weather conditions.

     

    Tour at 17:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We started again from Reykjavík into a bit more windy and choppy bay this afternoon. We headed straight out into the bay and decided to stop

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding : We started the tour in a beautiful blue sky and headed straight toward Akurey to watch a few hundred puffins flying around the island or just sitting on the water close to the shore. We enjoyed the sun on our way to the area we usually spot the whales an

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding. Like yesterday, we began the tour at puffin island to take nice photos of this colourfull bird. We then sailed straight into the sunset focusing our eagle eyes on the water surface. We only started explaining the clock system that a Minke Whale surfaced r

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    Tour at 2030

    Report from Hafsulan. We started the tour at puffin Island where we had a 10 minute stop to take really nice photos with the beautiful light of the sun going down. We then headed offshore to search for cetaceans. It didn't take long before we saw the first Minke Whale,

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    Tour at 2030

    Report from Skrúður: We started the tour at puffin island where we could have a look at many flying puffins and moreover a wonderful rainbow over Reykjavik giving us the opportunity to take a really nice photo of the capital of Iceland illuminated by the midnight sun. Then