Whale diary

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Report from Eldey: This was another amazing day out on the bay! Our first sighting was early on the tour with 3 white beaked dolphins. They traveled slowly in an area close to Reykjavík and while we followed them we spotted two other pods

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It was even warmer than on the morning tour. On this tour we got great sightings of 6-7 minke whales! We had to sail far out to find the first minke whales. We came to an area with 3 minke whales, we followed one of them

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The summer weather continued on the afternoon tour and we all could work on our Icelandic tan throughout the tour. The sea also remained flat so spotting was easy. On this tour we headed to our normal whale watching area in the middle of

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It had stopped raining but the wind was even getting stronger so it made it much easier to be able to sail out from Hafnarfjörður in stead of Reykjavík. It took us only 20 minutes until we spotted the first humpback whale

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: It was much windier in the afternoon than on morning tour. Fortunately for us the find was coming from south east so we got good shelter from land in our main sighting area these days. It didnt take us long to spot our first blow of a

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: This afternoon we again headed towards the area outside of Hafnarfjörður to see the humpback whales. The sun had almost disappeared but the sea conditions were still great. It took a bit more than one hour to reach the a

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Compared to the morning tour, it was a lot windier and less sunny than in the morning. So it was good that we returned to the area outside of Hafnarfjörður where we had been earlier and where we got shelter from land. It took a whil

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The magical weather continued in the afternoon with feelings of summer when we headed out from the harbor. When we got closer to the area where we have had good success the last week we could soon see big blows from the whales! The

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The weather didn't change much from the morning so we still had perfect conditions for whale watching. After a short time we spotted blows far north in the bay and noticed 2-3 white beaked dolphins that had popped up rig

Tour at 13:00

Report from Hafsúlan and Eldey: The weather got a little worse this afternoon but the sea state stayed calm. Just a little more wind and rain. We traveled towards Hafnafjörður, about a 50 minute sail and saw our first of five humpback whales

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey and Hafsúlan: This was a busy afternoon for us so we went out on two boats. The wind speed had gone down during the day so it felt warm with the overalls. We sailed from Reykjavík to the area out of Hafnarfjorður where we saw the whales t

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: Since we ended in Hafnarfjörður on the morning tour this was the starting point for the afternoon tour. We could sail out with the wind straight for the area with the humpback whales from the morning. Again we soon

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: The nice weather continued in the afternoon and the conditions at sea were perfect. We went again to the south to the area with the humpbacks. When we got there we spotted 2 blows and went for the one closest to us. It was a rather small

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Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: We left the humpback whales close to land on the morning tour so we started searching for them as soon as we left the harbor. It only took us 20 minutes until we

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey: This afternoon the wind had died down from the morning tour and we headed out onto Faxa bay in the beautiful afternoon sun. Sailing with mount Esja on our right hand side we had good cover from the north easterly winds with excellent vis

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Report from Eldey and Hafsúlan: Easter is here! This afternoon many people wanted to go whale watching with us so we took out the two biggest boats we have in our fleet of whale watching ships. The wind was strong from northeast meaning freezing cold outsi

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Report from Eldey and Hafsúlan: The wind had calmed down a little on this tour but it didn´t matter because the whales were very close to land, just on the other side of the island Viðey. Five humpback whales in total, one pair and four sc

Tour at 13:00

Report from Eldey and Hafsúlan: It took us only 20 minutes to find the first blows!  There were many humpback whales in the area close to Reykjavík, at least 10 individuals! Our boats split up to watch separate humpbacks. Eldey had tw

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Report from Eldey and Hafsúlan: Easter week is proving to be very busy, a nice get away to the land of ice and fire. We again took out two boats to accomodate the 260 passengers we had this afternoon. Unfortunately the weather did take a turn for the worst

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Report from Hafsúlan and Elding: We thought that we could not bet this morning´s tour but we were wrong. The sea calmed down further so it was like a mirror. Sunglasses and sunscreen was definitely needed this afternoon. There were less dolphins in the bay