Whale diary

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    Tour at 13:00

    Today we went out from Keflavík harbour because of bad sea conditions.  We saw twice a glimpse of a Minke Whale but after that we found nothing for a while. At last a group of White-beaked dolphins entertained us for some time. We ended the tour in Reykjavik without seeing a

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    Tour at 13:00

    We headed out on the bay today with a little bit of wind but it was raining a lot and there were some swells. We approached the area where we usually spot the whales and found some White-beaked dolphins. They were not in a very good whale watching mood and disappeared soon.

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    Tour at 13:00

    We sailed from Keflavík harbour this afternoon and were quite optimistic because of the nice tour the previous day. It was very different though! The sea was very rough, much rougher than we had expected, but we sailed out to look for the whales. In the area where we had spo

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    Tour at 13:00

    Due to bad weather we are forced to cancel tour at 13:00 today.  It is very difficult to predict about the weather next days it looks like that we will depart from Keflavik tomorrow but we will decided about that in the morning around 11:00.

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    Tour at 13:00

    Ten minutes from the harbour we spotted some Harbour Porpoises, they surfaced just a few times before disappearing. Then we headed further our. The weather was really good, calm sea and the sun was shining. We spotted a group of White-beaked dolphins. In the beginning it was

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    Tour at 13:00

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

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    Tour at 13:00

    We took both boats out this afternoon and stayed around the same area for the whole trip. There were several groups of white-beaked dolphins out there today which we were able to get a great look at. They are often so curious and playful, and we could even see them jumping i

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    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.

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    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

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    Tour cancelled due to strong wind.

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Tour cancelled due to strong wind.

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    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

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    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

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    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