Whale diary

Tour at 13:00

Due to bad weather we had to cancel the tour at 13:00 today. The weather forecast for tomorrow Sunday looks very good.

Tour at 13:00

Tour cancelled due to strong wind. Due to storm in Reykjavík all trips to Viðey have also been cancelled this evening. In honour of the lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower, Yoko Ono offers the general public free ferry crossings to Viðey on the 10th and 11th October at 20:0

Tour at 13:00

Tour cancelled due to strong wind.

Tour at 13:00

We had to sail quite far out today. The weather was very nice, calm sea and the sun was shining. We spent a lot of time searching, and then finally we spotted one Minke Whale. But the whale was diving for a long time and so did the next one. Then we were finally lucky. Two M

Tour at 13:00

A very cold but beautiful afternoon out on the bay today. We headed back towards the area where we have been in the past few days and found one Minke whale in the same area as a small group of shy harbour porpoises. We stayed with the Minke whale for over 20 minutes and this

Tour at 13:00

We headed out on the bay today with a little bit of wind but relatively calm sea. We approached the area where we usually can spot the whales and encountered several groups of white-beaked dolphins. They were really playful and came very close to the boat and we were able to

Tour at 13:00

The tour today was really good, the wind and the sea was calm, the sky was blue and the sun was shining! Really good whale watching conditions :-) We saw three species today, white beaked dolphins, harbour porpoises and minke whales. There were really many dolphins out on th

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: It was cold but sunny as we started the tour. Only ten minutes from the harbor we encountered the first whales. It was a nice group of Harbour Porpoises. We got a good look at them before heading further out.  We went quite far before we foun

Tour at 13:00

Tour cancelled due to strong wind.

Tour at 13:00

This was a pretty cold day out there on the bay. We were prepared to sail quite far today because we had quite a difficult day yesterday with very few Minke whales around and very difficult to spot them. But we had more luck today. We headed out and came to an area with lots

Tour at 13:00

We set off again out onto Faxaflói bay and we really scanned a huge area and went much further out than this morning. There were a few groups of birds out there but we weren't able to spot any whales. On the way back we found a few harbour porpoises which a few people were a

Tour at 13:00

We sailed out from Reykjavík harbour this afternoon but the weather was getting worse. We decided to try to head towards calmer sea towards Keflavík but this was quite far away. We sailed for a really long time before we reached the sea around Keflavík and were quite lucky a

Tour at 13:00

The weather got even better in the afternoon and we decided to go as far as possible to check an area far out in the bay. And we were lucky! First we spotted some splashes and found a very active and playful group of white-beaked dolphins. We had them a long time around the

Tour at 13:00

We sailed out from Keflavík to avoid the heavy sea near Reykjavík. Still it was very windy. Although we spotted some porpoises a few times during the trip we could not find the big whales. Maybe they were further out but the weather was too bad to go there.

Tour at 9:

Tour at 13:00 Tour cancelled due to strong wind.

Tour at 9:00 Tour cancelled due to strong wind.

Tour at 13:00

Again we headed out from Keflavík harbour and the sea was a little calmer than this morning. We headed towards the same area where we were earlier this morning and again found lots of feeding birds, especially Gannets. We spotted several Minke whales again, 6-8 individuals a

Tour at 13:00

The wind dropped down a lot during the morning and we had fine weather this afternoon. Soon we spotted already several blows in the distance and found the minke whales to whom they belonged. This time of the year, when it is getting colder we can see the blow of a whale very

Tour at 13:00

The wind had picked up a bit in the afternoon. We went directly to the area where we had all the whales this morning. First we spotted there a few harbour porpoises and soon some white-beaked dolphins, but no minke whales. We stayed for some while with the dolphins and decid

Tour at 13:00

The sea was by now completely flat and we headed back to the same area. There were even more white-beaked dolphins around now, really everywhere that we looked, and many of them were jumping. In the same area there were several Minke whales again, sometimes surfacing very cl

Tour at 13:00

Again we headed out to look for the whales, and now the wind had gone down quite a lot so the sea was much more calm. We headed towards the same area as we were this morning and again found several Minke whales out there. We got some really close sightings again as well whic