Whale Diary

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We sailed out from Reykjavik harbour in beautiful weather. Still a cold North Easterly wind which keeps the air nice and fresh. We went to the same area as the morning tour and once again it was successful with Minke Whales, Harbour Porpoises and Seabirds. Thr

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed once again in lovel blue skies but rough seas. We stayed close to the coast showing the islands we have near to the capital then past Mt. Esja, Hvalfjöurður, Akrafjall and Akranes. We then turned and headed with the swell to our good whale watching a

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan and Elding. From the large amount of passengers joining us this afternoon we decided to take out two boats so that our passengers would be comfortable and had space to move around the boats. The wind had calmed down a lot this lovely afternoon. When we got out

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed out from Grindavík. The weather had gotten a little better but there was still a lot of wind. We headed in a different direction than in the morning. We sailed along the coast and viewed the beautiful landscape of the Reykjanes. We did not see any w

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan The swell had increased on this tour but the sun was out from behind the clouds warming up the atmosphere. We headed out to the same area as this morning and saw many birds and Harbour Porpoises on the way. It was more difficult to find the Minkes on this tour

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: we sailed to the same area as the morning and once again found Harbour Porpoises everywhere (20-30 scattered animals in total) on the way. We had two Minke Whales on this tour and the second one surfaced no more than 20 meters from the boat, you could see the

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: We went to the same area where we spotted the humpback whale this morning. We went really far out this time. We saw few flocks of feeding seabirds but no luck there. It was very disappointing tour where the whales did not show themselves, but that isthe wild n

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed out from Reykjavík, it was a bit windy. We set sail to where we had seen the whales this morning. On the way we see two pods of Harbour Porpoises, probably around 20 individuals together. We didn't stop to watch them but continued sailing. When we g

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed out from Reykjavík and headed straight to where we had seen the humpback whale this morning. We came in to a big flock of birds and then we saw a humpback whale. We sailed towards it and saw that these were actually two whales. We watched them for a

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan: Awesome afternoon with 200-300 White beaked Dolphins which were very spread out. A couple of times we could watch the dolphins schooling fish into a tight cluster and hitting the fish with their tails to stun the fish making them easier to catch. After a while

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan. The weather was once again perfect with a mirror calm sea and a strong sun. We sailed from Reykjavik Harbour to the area we saw the dolphins this morning. On the way we maybe saw 4-5 different pods of Harbour Porpoises (with 5-20 in each pod. After about an ho

Tour at 13:00 Report from Hafsúlan. We sailed out with an overcast sky and a bit of rain but it didn´t last long. The sea condition was very good and we only really got to feel the cold on the way back when heading into the wind. We tried looking for the MInke Whale that we saw at the end of the

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Report from Hafsúlan and Elding; Easter has come and brought the sun with it and the passengers too. We had to take two boats out this afternoon so that our passengers had room to move. It was beautiful on this tour, it did get a bit chilly on the way back to land but most o

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Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: With all the passengers we had coming with us today we needed to take out two boats so that they all had space to watch the animals and move around the boat. We sailed to the area we found a minke this morning but there was no sign. We travel

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: We headed out from Reykjavík on two boats because of the many passengers. We sailed in different directions to try to scan as much area as possible. After two hours of no luck Elding spotted a Minke Whale. Hafsúlan joined them and we watched the Mi

Tour at 13:00: Report from Hafsúlan. We left from Reykjavík and headed to where we had seen the dolphins that morning. After an hour sail we found a pod of White-beaked dolphins. There were about 6-8 individuals. We were following this pod when suddenly a minke whale surfaces very close to the b