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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The sky cleared up late afternoon so we left the harbour with a beautiful weather and perfect sea conditions. There was a lot of Puffin around Akurey, sitting on the water, relaxing in the sun. Then we headed offshore in Faxafloi Bay. Even the conditions

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The wind was getting much calmer this evening. We started the tour at Akurey and it was so lovely to see all these puffins around the island. Some of them were even bringing fish home in their beak! But after visiting the island a very long search took plac

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    Tours at 20:30, 17:00, 14:00 and 13:00

    Unfortunately the following whale watching tours have been cancelled due to strong winds in the bay. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you require further information please contact us by phone, email or even by dropping down to

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding : We started the tour under a rainy overcast sky but the sea was calm. We saw a few Puffins around Akurey on the way out and also some Black-backed seagulls, kittywakes, Arctic Terns, Fulmars, Eyder Ducks. Then we headed offshore in this grey weather perfe

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    Tours at 20:30 & 17:00

    Unfortunately we will have to cancel this tour due to an expected storm tonight. Our office is open until 9 PM so please drop by or call if you have any concerns about your reservation on these tours. We will be happy to help.

    Tour at 14:00

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: We started the tour on a very calm sea. We stopped at Puffin island but there were not many birds so we didn't stay too long. Out at sea conditions were perfect to spot whales from far away but for more than an hour we sailed with no signs of cetacean. Fo

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: We had no luck finding whales this evening. There was a decent amounts of birds in the puffin island Akurey and a few birds here and there out on the bay, among them gannets. Apart from that we did not see much life this evening despite keeping a good loo

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: The weather was still being very nice to us this evening. We sailed out in the bay in very calm sea with clouds all around us which made things little bit mysterious. We found about 3-4 minke whales this evening. At one point we were following 2 or 3 of the

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding : Beautiful seau conditions for this midnight tour ! We started at Puffin Island but there were not a lot of birds tonight. We continue our trip out in Faxafloi Bay sailing into the sun going down. The sea was flat calm and we had the chance to have a grea

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hasùlan: Awesome tour !! The weather was beautiful all day long so I was expecting a great evening ... and it was !! The sea was almost flat when we left Puffin Island after we watched just a few Puffins (but an Artic Skua from really close). We headed offshor an

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding : We knew knew from the previous tour that it was not easy today but we started the tour under a beautiful sky so we were really optimistic. Unfortunately we searched for 1 hour and a half without any success. We saw some splash really far on the horizon t

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Hafsúlan: The wind was still very strong when we headed out this evening. We knew that we had to go very far so we went straight out with the wind in our face the whole time. It was very difficult in the beginning but once we got out there we did not regret a

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    Tour at 20:30

    Unfortunately we will have to cancel the 20:30 tour due to unfavourable weather conditions out at Faxaflói Bay. Our office is open until 9 PM so please drop by or call if you have any concerns about your reservation on this tour. We will be happy to help.

    Tour at 17:

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    Tour at 2030

    Unfortunately we will have to cancel this tour due to unfavourable weather conditions out at Faxaflói Bay. Our office is open until 9 PM so please drop by or call if you have any concerns about your reservation on this tour. We will be happy to help.

     

    Tour at 17

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: What a beautiful night! The weather conditions were really good, the wind dropped since the night before so we were pretty optimistic. We stopped at Puffin Island on the way out to “warm up the cameras”. Then we were supposed to sail 40 minutes before

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    Tour at 20:30

    Report from Elding: It was quite windy on this tour but clear blue skies and excellent visibility. We could see the Snæfellsjökull glacier very well and especially towards the end of the tour with the sun almost at the horizon it was beautiful on the Faxaflói bay. However we

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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