Whale diary

Tour at 13:00

Tour cancelled due to a storm in Faxaflói bay.

Tour at 13:00

Data missing

Tour at 13:00

This after noon we decided to check out a different area. We sailed around for a bit when we got news of a Humpback Whale so we changed directions and headed towards it. We finally got there and this was a Humpback Whale. It was displaying a huge blow surfacing about 3 times

Tour at 13:00

We headed out from Hafnarfjörður today in very nice but pretty cold weather. After sailing only a few minutes the captain spotted a small group of Harbour porpoises but they were very shy so none of our passengers could see them. Then two minutes later our first officer spot

Tour at 13:00

We headed out in pretty good weather, there was some swell when we got further out but the sailing was not to bad. We searched for a very long time today, there were not many birds around, few Gulls in some areas but unfortunately we didn't find any whales today so we offere

Tour at 13:00

It had picked up a lot of wind when we headed out for this tour so the conditions were not as good and quite many white caps all over. But that didn't stop us and after searching for some time we spotted one Minke Whale surfacing once and a bit later we spotted another one,

Tour at 13:00

Tour cancelled due to a strong wind out in Faxaflói bay.

Tour at 13:00

We sailed out from Hafnarfjörður today hoping to find the whales again, like yesterday. It was quite windy and it was raining cats and dogs. We spent a lot of time searching and we sailed very far out, trying to find them but unfortunately there were no sign of them. We saw

Tour at 13:00

Sometimes we go out of our way to increase the chances of finding the whales for our gests. We do that by mowing the boats to other harbours, for example if the weather looks to be better there or we think it’s more likely to find whales. This means the tour takes sometimes

Tour at 13:00

When we headed out to Faxaflói bay this afternoon there was a bit of swell from the previous night. After searching for some time we spotted some White-beaked dolphins. It was a very nice group, which came quite close to our boat, surfacing again and again in front of us. We

Tour at 13:00

The tour today was cancelled due to strong wind out in Faxaflói bay.

Tour at 13:00

The sea conditions were pretty good this afternoon even though it rained quite a bit while we were out there. There were not many birds around the area today, we spotted several Gannets, some Fulmars and Raizobills. We did come a cross a small pod of White-beaked Dolphins th

Tour at 13:00

There were not so many whales around today.  We only spotted one Minke whale. It surfaced three times and always very far away. Even though the weather was quite nice and calm sea conditions, and we spent a lot of time searching, this was the only cetacean we found this time

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: The weather was the same when we headed out again this afternoon. After searching for some time the captain spotted a big group of Harbour porpoises but they were very shy and disappeared before we could spot them again. Further out, some of our passeng

Tour at 13:00

We had beautiful weather conditions today. It was sunny and the sea was calm. We headed out in to Faxaflói bay and soon spotted some splashes on the water surface. As the got closer we saw that there were harbour Porpoises. It looked like a family group of at least 3 to 6 an

Tour at 13:00

In perfect weather, very calm sea and no wind, we sailed out to Faxaflói bay this afternoon. Soon we spotted a group of White-beaked dolphins. They were a bit shy, but some of them came very close to our boat a few times. Further out we spotted some Harbour porpoises. Some o

Tour at 13:00

After we got out to Faxaflói bay we first spotted a blow from a Whale, when we got closer we saw that this was a Humpback Whale and it was going for a deeper dive. It stayed under water for very long and while we were waiting we spotted several Minke Whales. The Humpback Wha

Tour at 13:00

Finally beautiful and calm weather again. After sailing and searching for some time we finally spotted a group of White-beaked dolphins. A very nice group, which came quite close to our boat, surfacing many times. When we were heading back to the harbour a few of our passeng