Whale diary

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    A sunny but breezy day at sea with the swell picking up in the afternoon. Although we saw a couple of minke whales, white-beaked dolphins and a humpback whale, we decided to offer complimentary tickets to allow our guests better future encounters!

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    Today was incredible. We saw a few harbour porpoises, some elusive minke whales, a couple of pods of white-beaked dolphins and a few humpback whales that were eating and some even breahced!

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    We had some incredible sighings today in the beautiful weather. Sightings included harbour porpoises, about 8 white-beaked dolphins, a few feeding humpback whales and some minke whales!

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    • ALL TOURS ON SCHEDULE

    Throughout the day saw a small pod of harbour porpoises, a couple of minke whales, 10 white-beaked dolphins and about 8 humpback whales, some even pec slapping!

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    • ALL TOURS ON SCHEDULE

    Today we encountered 2 harbour porpoises, a couple of minke whales, about 10 humpback whales (some peduncle throwing and breaching) as well as pods of white-beaked dolphins and even a harbour seal!

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    • ALL TOURS ON SCHEDULE

    Throughout today we encountered a small pod of harbour porpoises, some minke whales glistening in sun, about 10-15 humpback whales, a small pod of white-beaked dolphins, and even grey seals in the afternoon!

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    • ALL TOURS ON SCHEDULE

    Today we saw about 8 humpback whales, some feeding, others tail slapping and breaching. We also saw some minke whales and white-beaked dolphins!

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    Today our premium tours were cancelled due to the conditions at sea, but our classic tours managed to sail and see a couple of elusive minke whales and several humpback whales feeding, rolling and travelling together.

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    Most of our tours were cancelled today due to rough weather..  We were able to sail a couple of times throughout the day and although we found a pod of white-beaked dolphins, we offered our guests complimentary tickets to try again another day!

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    Some of our tours were cancelled today due to rough weather, but we managed to see a pod of white-beaked dolphins, 4+ minke whales and a couple of humpback whales - although the last tour of the day had no sightings and therefore passengers were offered complimentary tickets!

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    Some of our afternoon tours got cancelled due to increasing wind, but we managed to see a couple of harbour porpoises, 2 minke whales and a humpback whale intertwined by a 15 member pod of white-beaked dolphins throughout the day.

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    • ALL TOURS ON SCHEDULE

    The sun was shining, the sea was calm, but it was still chilly in the bay. We found a humpback whale, 4 minke whales, 8 harbour porpoises and about 15 white-beaked dolphins.

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    Today we started out with calm conditions, but decided to cancel our afternoon Premium tours due to increasing wind. In all we saw about 3 minke whales today, a couple of pods of white-beaked dolphins, harbour porpoises and 2 humpback whales!

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    All whale watching tours were cancelled today, apart from the midnight sun tour. Unfortunately we did not see any cetaceans this evening, so we offered complimentary tickets to our passengers..

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    • ALL TOURS CANCELLED

    Due to unfavourable weather conditions in the bay, all whale watching tours have been CANCELLED today.

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    Today we saw the three main species of Faxaflói bay. We had incredible encounters with energetic white-beaked dolphins, minke whales and humpback whales.

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    Today we saw harbour porpoises, humpback whales, a few pods of curious white-beaked dolphins and a couple of minke whales, both far and up close.

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    • ALL TOURS ON SCHEDULE

    A cloudy, but beautiful turned to rain in the afternoon. All in all we encountered pods of white-beaked dolphins, several minke whales, about 3 humpback whales and a pod of 10 harbour porpoises!

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    • ALL TOURS ON SCHEDULE

    The day started out calm with sprinkles of rain, We encountered about 12 white-beaked dolphins, 2 minke whales, humpback whales and 3 harbour porpoises on today's tours.

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    We sailed out in calmer conditions than expected. In total we encountered 7 harbour porpoises, minke whales, 15 white-beaked dolphins, a humpback whale and many birds including puffins! One tour had no sightings and passengers were of course offered complimentary tickets!