Whale diary

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    Tour 17:00

    We sailing out in Faxafloi bay, wind went down and the sea was very flat. We had another unique tour fowlowing a Humpback whale, the fourth animals during the same day. It was sometimes so close that we coudn't believe it. Once it even stopped at 5 o' clock resting under the su

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    Trip at 17:00

    An amazing tour this late afternoon. We had very active fedding Minke whales. First we stopped close to an area with two large flocks of feeding birds and we could see a rolling minke whale showing the fluke out of the water then another one jumped in a lunge feeding strike. T

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    Tour 17:00

    We had some excellent weather this afternoon, nice calm sea and a little bit of sunshine. We didn't find it hard to find the Minke whales again, and we followed about 5 Minke whales quite closely. We spotted a small group of Harbour Porpoises just a couple of times but I'm not

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    Tour 17:00

    We had very nice weather for this late afetrnoon tour. Almost no wind, very soft light conditions and almost no other boats out at sea. Just us and the whales. We had in fact a very good chance today to approach several Minke whales. We had four main sightings, with 3 different

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    Tour at 17:00

    Third tour of the day and a fantastic one too! :-) We spotted several minke whales not far out on the bay and were enjoying those sightings when we spotted a big blow in the distance - the humpback whale! We sailed towards it and it was a joy to watch. It showed its fluke be

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    Tour at 17:00

    We set off in the pouring rain here from Reykjavík harbour, and went first to see the puffins in Akurey. After sailing for just 10 minutes from the island we spotted the first Minke whale!! This whale was very close to shore, and soon after this encounter we spotted some Har

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    Tour at 17:00

    Unfortunately we didn't spot any whales, dolphins or porpoises on this tour. We sailed far out on the bay and saw several areas with many flocks of feeding seabirds (which is usually a very good sign) but no whales were seen :-(

     

    Tour at 13:00

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    Tour at 17:00

    Unfortunately we weren't as lucky as our previous trips. We only spotted a harbour porpoise once, but hardly anyone saw it :(  We hope our passengers can join us for a complimentary tour as soon as possible!!

     

    Tour at 13:00

    On this afternoontour the whal

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    Tour at 17:00

    The sea was still nice and calm like in the morning and it was lovely to sail out on the bay this evening. Like in the previous tours we had to sail far out on the bay, but it certainly paid of! We spotted a minke whale and it was very approachable :-) It came up to the surf

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    Tour at 17:00

    The weather was incredible out on the bay this evening. The visibility was excellent and we enjoyed the scenery as well as the calm sea and evening sun. Our first sighting was a couple of shy harbour porpoises that came up to the surface a couple of times before disappearing

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    Tour 17:00

    Weather slowly improved and sea birds were still many spotted. Unfortunately whales were not around even if we had some time. We have spotted blows around the area where we did have sightings during the all day.

     

    Tour 13:00

    Still overcast but the wind went

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    Tour 17:00

    Light conditions were very sugestive, flat sea conditions and we spotted a Humpback whale, which all time stayed less than 5 meters away from us, it was so big and calm it was really a perfect sighting!

     

    Tour 13:00

    Another very good tour. Weather still very

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    Tour at 13:00

    We really hoped to find the humpback from the morning again and sailed all the way full of excitement. And than the captain finally saw its blow through the bincoulars far in the distance. It was the same humpbck whale from the morning. It was still there, something you neve

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    Tour at 13:00

    We decided to try our luck again but we seareched this time far far out in the Faxaflói bay, an area where we usually never go. The tour was about six hours but it was it worth!!! We found several minke whales and a humpback whale. Actually the passengers could smell a minke

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    Tour at 13:00

    Tour cancelled due to strong winds

     

    Tour at 9:00

    Tour cancelled due to strong winds

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    Tour 13:00

    The wind picked up quite mch this afternoon and so we decided to extend our whale-watching tour ending it in Keflavik. The light conditions were very good, and birds were many on the way. Continuously we did see artic terns, gulls feeding and one time we even spotted a large fl

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    Tour 13:00

    Weather was still excellent and the animals, too. We went to Puffin Island, Lundey on the way back and first we enjoyed the whales and dolphins out in Faxafloi bay. We first spotted few harbour porpoises, then a calf of a Minke whale, then a large pod of White-beaked dolphins a

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    Tour at 13:00

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    Tour at 9:00

    We spent a lot time searching for whales this morning but it was beautiful weather so we could enjoy the time a lot. We spotted some harbour porpoises and later two really nice minke whales. The first one was particularly nice

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    Tour at 13:00

    The wind had picked up a bit during lunchtime but it was still quite good weather. Soon we spotted a small group of white-beaked dolphins. They approached the boat several times and were very playful. After that we searched a large area for some more whales but couldn´t find

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    Tour 13:00

    The wind went down, the temperature increased and we decided to ehad to Keflavik to have a look out there, too. We had too wait a bit before spotting soemthing but then we had a fantastic sighting of a Humpback whale, which we spotted already a few weeks ago. We think it might