Whale diary

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

Tour at 13:00

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Tour at 13.00 Report from Elding. We sailed out of Sandgerði harbour in not very nice weather. It was windy and pouring with rain. However, it wasn´t long before we saw a Humpback Whale in the distance. It was great as it showed his/her tail many times. We watched this humpie for a while unt

Tour at 13:00 Report from Elding. Today we went from Sandgerði, it was a beautiful day, very sunny but cold however using our overalls you would make you feel pretty warm and toasty. The first thing we spotted just as we were leaving the port was a grey seal, it popped up a few times and we coul

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed out today from Hafnafjörður on a blustery day but the land sheltered us from most of it. The weather was interchangable too as we had it all sun, snow, hail, rain, sun again. It is incredible here in Iceland to see the weather change so much within s

Tour at 13.00 Report from Elding. We sailed out from Hafnafjorður in relatively good weather, well it didn´t rain which is always good. It was quite cold and windy but we only really felt that at the end of the tour when we started to head back to hafnafjörður. We got to see a wonderful pod of W

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out again from Hafnafjörður as this was were the sea state was at its best. It was beautiful today with the dark dynamic skies, rainbows,  snow capped mountains, great visibility and fresh crisp air and of course the low lying winter sun with