Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00

    We could nearly say ,,copy- paste" for this tour from the morning tour, except for two things, a little bit more wind and the Minke whales were in more action. Rolling in the surface, belly up and surface feeding a few times. But every thing else was the same, lots of Harbou

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    Tour at 13:00

    We headed out from Hafnarfjörður today in very nice but pretty cold weather. After sailing only a few minutes the captain spotted a small group of Harbour porpoises but they were very shy so none of our passengers could see them. Then two minutes later our first officer spot

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    Tour at 13:00

    This afternoon we headed out again. First we spotted a Minke Whale that surfaced several times close to us. At first it didn't spend long time under water and surfaced often but after a while it started spending more and more time under water so we headed on in search for so

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    Tour at 13:00

    This afternoon was absolutely amazing. We headed out towards the area where we had been this morning but all the whales were gone form there so we kept on searching. We heard news of many whales not so faraway from where we were so we headed there and what a show. There were

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    Tour at 13:00

    The weather was great again this afternoon, sun was shining and a bit warmer then this morning. We headed out and after searching for a while we spotted a Minke Whale. This Minke Whale was pretty shy and we spotted only 3 times, the last time we saw it surface it came really

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    Tour at 13.00

    We headed out in really sunny weather. We soon spotted a group of White beaked Dolphins. We stayed with them and a couple of them were also jumping. We also spotted some more Dolphins further out also some jumping ones. Suddenly we were surrounded by dolphins all around the

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    Tour at 13:00

    The weather was really good again this afternoon. We headed straight out to the area where we had been earlier this morning and when we got there we spotted the Mine Whales surface feeding again. Rolling in the surface there causing huge splashes. But after a while they stop

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    Tour at 13:00

    We had a fantastic tour out in Faxaflói bay this afternoon, the weather stayed the same slightly warmer though than this morning. We headed out and after searching for a little while we spotted a flock of feeding Gannets ahead of us. Around the Gannets we spotted so many Min

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    Tour at 13:00

    Again we headed out and this time we sailed straight towards the area where we ended this morning. Just before we got there we spotted blows from whales and when we got to the area there were even more Gannets there then before. And before we knew it we had at least 6 differ

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    Tour at 13:00

    Due to the strong wind we cancelled the tour.

     

    Tour at 09:00

    The weather was quite rough today when we headed out to Faxaflói bay. After sailing for some time we found a good area with lots of feeding birds. Gannets, Fulmars, Kittiwakes and Manx shearwat

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    Tour at 13:00

    The weather was the same this afternoon and even the sun was peaking out from the clouds. Again we spotted the Harbour porpoises firs. It was a big group, fast swimming so we followed them for a while trying to get closer. Further out we spotted some splashes and this time i

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    Tour at 13:00

    Cancelled to do strong wind out in Faxaflói bay.

     

    Tour at 09:00

    The autumn is obviously here since the weather was full in this morning, windy and rainy, but it didn't stop us and our passengers from going out this time and we headed out ready for some a

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    Tour at 13:00

    While we were boarding for this tour it was raining but as soon as we left the harbour the sun started shining and was shining though out the tour and the see was as flat as it could be. From the moment we spotted the first whale which was a Minke Whale more and more started

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    Tour at 13:00

    The weather was great during this tour, even less wind and the sun was shining even though it was raining along the coast. We headed to the same area and the Gannets were still there feeding and so were the Minke Whales. We spotted more of them during this tour then the one

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    Tour at 13:00

    After sailing for some time we spotted a group of Harbour porpoises and a Minke whale in the same area. We followed the proposes for some time enjoying them allot. Then we tried to find the Minke whale again and we found two in the same area. So lots of whales out in the bay

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    Tour at 13:00

    We did not have to sail for a long time to find the whales this afternoon. We saw lots of feeding Gannets and in the same area we found two Minke whales and two groups of White-beaked dolphins. The Minkes were very nice, surfacing many times, some times close some times furt

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    Tour at 13:00

    The wind had picked up allot when we headed back out today looking for whales. We sailed straight out to the same area we found the whales earlier this morning but there were no sign of them. We searched for a long time but the only thing we found were diving Gannets. No wha

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    Tour at 13:00

    It had picked up some wind and more rain when we headed out for this tour. We headed out and first we headed towards the area where we had the Harbour Porpoises earlier this morning. We crossed the area without and spotted very briefly a pod of Harbour Porpoises but we didn'

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    Tour at 13.00

    The headed out into Faxaflói bay the weather was really nice. We spotted some diving Gannets and soon also a Minke Whale in the same area. The stayed in the area and got so lucky we spotted two other Minke Whales and many diving Gannets around us. The Minke Whales surfaced a

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    Tour at 13:00

    The wind had slowed down a little bit when we sailed out to Faxaflói bay this afternoon. It took us about 90 minutes to find the whales and we had to sail quite far out. Suddenly out captain spotted a blow from a whale and a few minutes later one Minke whale surfaced 70 mete