Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed from Keflavík today in order to sail with the wind and make the tour as comfortable as possible, there was still some swell in the sea so while we were sailing with the swell on our side we had an exciting start. This calmed down later as we s

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: After a successful morning we headed out once again from Reykjavík, though this time we dealt with a lot of rain! We sailed for the same area that we were successful in the morning and after some searching found a Humpback Whale! This whale w

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    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: Though the sea conditions in the morning were unfavourable we headed out in the afternoon, there was still some swell in the water which made the first part of the tour a rollercoaster ride. The rollercoaster soon became the least exciting pa

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    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: We sailed once again from Keflavík in the hope of finding the whales which had been in the area previously and we finished the tour in Reykjavík. The snowy landscape all around was beautiful and the weather was a lot better than it was in the

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out from Hafnarfjörður for our second tour of the day. The seas were rather calm even though it was a bit windy. As the tour progressed the weather changed every 20 minutes or so. We got some snow, hail, fog and sleet. We didn't see any cetace

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report form Hafsúlan: On our second tour we sailed straight to the area where we had been this morning. We sailed towards the previously visited area and on our way we made a few stops because we spotted dolphins at least three times on our journey. Some of the White beaked

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: We sailed once again from Reykjavík after a successful morning tour, the weather was still very good though the water was no longer completely still. As we had a very good idea of where to look for some whales we sailed straight to where we t

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: After the morning trip we were confident and the weather continued to be excellent. The sea was very calm as we sailed from Reykjavík and the sun and sky were both beautiful. It took a few hours of searching before we finally found the Humpba

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    Tour at 13:00Report from Hafsúlan: The weather looked beautiful in Sandgerði as we headed out from the harbour. The waves were quite high but not that choppy so although we could feel the movement it wasn't too bad. We searched a big area and after about an hour sailing on of the crew members sp

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: Once again we sailed from Sandgerði, our experience from the previous days had all been excellent from here so we had high hopes for this trip! And it´s safe to say those expectations were met, after sailing south from Sandgerði for around an

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan: Again we sailed out from Sandgerði. The weather was slightly less windy and we were ready for our second try of the day, which really payed off since we sailed for roughly an hour before we saw a blow. We sailed towards the blow and soon saw that it cam

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    Tour at 1300

    Report from Hafsúlan: This time, we left from Grindavík and decided to end the tour in Sandgerði. Within an hour, we had spotted 4 orcas and 2 humpback whales at the west end of Reykjanes. There were lots of birds around, many northern gannets diving for the fish that was pre

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    Tour at 1300

    Report from Elding and Hafsúlan: Today we went out from Sandgerði because of the weather conditions. It was quite windy but the seas were not too rough. We sailed to the west to begin with and it did not take us long to find the first Humpback whale! It was travelling at a fa

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    Tour at 13:00

    Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: After a very successful morning tour we knew exactly where to look in the afternoon, so after leaving Grindavík we immediately turned west and it didn´t take us long before we spotted our first Humpback Whale, at first there was a pair of wha