Very nice light conditions during our later afternoon tour. Puffins were still on the Island and we could stay and observe for a while before heading to the whales. We had to wait quite a bit before spotting something but than at the end we saw a Minke whale, surfacing a few ti
The wind went down a bit and it got much warmer, too. Birds were still many out at sea, feeding mainly. But whales were still not around.
It was quite overcast and windy today. We went out to Faxaflói bay and we had many flocks of feeding birds. Puffins
Report from Hafsúlan: The weather was still really good in the afternoon, although the wind had picked up a little (tiny) bit. We sailed out on Faxaflói bay and spotted a minke pretty soon. It wasn't very cooperative, so we headed further out... and that certainly paid off!
It was still so beautiful like in the morning, still no wind and still very good visibility. Again we spotted whales rather early. We were able to watch two different groups of white-beaked dolphins and two minke whales. The first dolphin group showed a lot of interest in th
Another good sunny day. Birds so many, that we counted more than 10 flocks. Mainly artic terns, Gulls and Puffins, few Skuas has been spotted as well. Whales were out there, too. Minke whales especially. Wes potted two of them and one of these two of big, slowly surfacing and a
Another beautiful sunny day, flat sea and excellent visibility. Birds were still many out at sea, many Puffins, Gulls and artic terns. Minke whales still around. We had a single sighting with a very rare couple of Minke whales, tighly surfacing, that were all time very clsoe to
The whales were even more difficult in the afternoon. We spotted two minke whales but both dived always a long time between the breathing. We saw three times just the blow the first whale. The second one we could see better. Actually we could smell the minke whales, but they
It got quiet out there in Faxaflói bay. Suddenly there was not as much life as in the morning. The whales were taking a siesta :-) and we had to spend some time searching for them. At the end of the tour though we had spotted three minke whales and one dolphin.
Hafsúla We went to the area where we spotted the whales this morning. Many feedin birds where there: seagulls, Arctic terns, guillemots, razorbills and puffins. Unfortunately we couldn't see many puffins on the puffin Island. We had two rather short sightings today: two mink
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We left again from Hafnafjörður harbour because we had strong winds today. So it was a rather rough tour but dispite of the wind we spotted a group of white-beaked dolphins today. L
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What a windy and wet day! We left from Hafnafjörður this morning. where we had some shelter from the land. We spotted there close to the harobur many harbour porpoises. Further out in the bay we spotted a blow and after a short
We did leave from Hafnarfjörður for our afternoon tour. Weather improved a little bit. We have been looking long for whales and we did spot two Minke whales, one just surfacing once and another one jumping making large spashes. Then we even spot a group of three White-beaked
The windy went down and also he whales started coming out more and more. We saw two Minke whales, one of which was feeding underneath a flock of birds, then we even had a couple of travelling White-beaked dolphins and also a group of them which were very much approaching us, ve
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Like in the morning we spent some time searching but then went straight to the area where we spotted the whales this morning. We spotted a blow and waited for the whale to whom the blow belonged when we suddenly spotted another, huge blow in the distance. We went right away
The sky cleared up and the sun came out. Beautiful sunny day, still some wind and the whales even more spectacular than this morning. We had a group of 3 to 4 White-beaked dolphins in front of us, even travelling underwater to the boat. Then we had a fantastic sighting with a H
A windy aftenoon and rainy but we had a good tour. In fact, we could spot a Humpback whale, which stayed withus for at least 20 minutes, always surfacing pretty close and once it even went down for a deep dive showing the fluke out. Fantastic!
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