Whale diary

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    Tour at 17:00

    The wind had calmed down a lot on this tour which was great. We headed straight out into Faxaflói to where the whales were in the last tours. We got there and the Minke whales were amazing rolling, surfing the waves, surfacing less than 30 meters from the boat, lunging out o

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    Tour at 17:00

    The wind was picking up some more and in the end of this trip it was getting quite rough. But very nice tour though. We didn’t count the Minke whales we spotted in one very good area with lots of diving Gannets and feeding birds, many hundreds of them. And like always it was

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    Tour at 17:00

    This tour was just amazing. The weather could not be better. The sea was like mirror, the sun was shining and hardly any wind. We sailed out to the same area we spotted all the whales earlier today, and the whales were still there feeding. Many, many Minke whales and also lo

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    Tour at 17:00

    The wind had gone down a bit when we headed out for this tour. We went first to Lundey to see the Puffins and after straight out to Faxaflói. We went straight for the area where spotted the Gannets during the tour before. On our way we briefly spotted a pod of Harbour Porpoi

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    Tour at 17.00

    We visited the Puffin Island Lundey. There were not so many Puffins on the island. Some were  flying around the island. We headed out into the bay. We started looking for whales. There were not so many birds out at the bay and we also didn’t spotted any whales so we gave our

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    Tour at 17:00

    We started this tour in Lundey Puffin Island where there were a few puffins around. Then we sailed out to Faxaflói and had to search for quite a long time before we found a Minke Whale. There were two of them in the same area but they were a little bit difficult to follow, b

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    Tour at 17:00

    The weather was the same when we headed out again.  And this time we spotted three species. First a small group of Harbour porpoises crossed our path. Then, a little bit further out a very nice group of White-beaked dolphins. They surfaced all around us even though they had

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    Tour at 17:00

    With 50 lovely passengers in very good whale watching mood we sailed out to Faxaflói bay. The weather was still very nice so the only thing we needed was some whales in a good mood. Very close to shore we spotted a small group of Harbour porpoises. They only surfaced a few t

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    Tour at 17:00

    Again we started out by heading straight out into Faxaflói bay. First we came a cross Minke Whales that were very difficult and after that we had to search for a while, we spotted several different Minke Whales and blows from them but they were very difficult only surfacing

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    Tour at 17.00

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    Tour at 14.00

    Again we sailed out in sunny weather and started this tour by sailing straight out to Faxaflói. After sailing for about 45 minutes we spotted the first Minke Whale but since there were many boats in the area we decided to go a

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    Tour at 17:00

    The wind picked up a little but the day was still wonderful. We started at Lundey and unfortunately didn´t see many there, but there were loads of Gulls, Kittiwakes, Eider Ducks and a couple of Skuas. We then sailed out into Faxaflói Bay and briefly saw a small pod of Harbou

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    Tour at 17:00

    We started at the Puffin island Lundey but there were not so many Puffins there. On our way out to the bay we spotted a Minke Whale very close to shore. This Minke whale was in a very good mood. Came very close and surfacing regularly. Then we headed further out to the bay.

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    Tour at 17:00

    It was quite windy and it was raining cats and dogs when we headed out to Faxaflói bay looking for whales. After searching for some time we found an area with lots of diving Gannets, and I mean lots. Many hundreds of them. And in this area we spotted also many Minke Whales,

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    Tour at 17:00

    We started today’s tour with a stop in the Puffin colony Lundey where we spotted some Puffins there were not so many on the island itself but there were some sitting at the surface around the Island and also flying around, we also spotted some Fulmars, Kittiwakes, Lesser Bla

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    Tour at 17:00

    We kept the same routine during this tour as the other tours to begin with the Puffin colony and we went to Lundey. There were not as many Puffins on the Island this time but some of them were flying around the island along with Kittiwakes, Arctic Skuas, Lesser Black-backed

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    Tour at 17:00

    The weather conditions pretty much stayed the same throughout the tour. We started the tour at Lundey and saw many Puffins. It then took us over an hour to find a place that showed potential, seabirds everywhere, Gannets, Gulls, Fulmars, Kittiwakes, Arctic Terns, Skuas, Puff

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    Tour at 17:00

    The wind had dropped down and the weather was quite nice. We started our tour by visit the Puffin island. And again lots of Puffins around the island. Then we headed out to Faxaflói. After sailing for about 7 minutes we spotted one Minke whale. It was the same whale we spott

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    Tour at 17:00

    We sailed out in beautiful weather, calm sea and sunshine from time to time creating beautiful light on the mountains around Reykjavík. We started the tour by sailing straight out to Faxaflói and had to search for a long time before we suddenly spotted a Minke Whale surfacin

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    Tour at 20:30

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    Tour at 17:00

    We headed straight out and it got a bit more rougher out at the bay. We looked for Whales and saw many Puffins when we saw a blow far away and headed in the direction but we couldn´t find the whale. So we headed on and found anothe

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    Tour at 20:30

    Under near perfect weather conditions we left the harbour to first visit Akurey, one of the two puffin colonies.  After a short stay there we headed out and it was not long before we spoted several Minke Whales.  We stayed with them for some time, however they did not seem t