Whale diary

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding : there cannot be a better mix than whales and the midnight sun and this tour was absolutely brilliant! Outstanding weather, visibility was perfect, etc. While Puffin Island was almost deserted, the Minke Whales on the tour made up for it. We saw at least

Tour at 2030

Report from Hafsúlan: Good tour this evening in beautiful lighting! We saw lots of birds on Akurey as well as eider ducks and others. We started off witha feeding minke whale, probably a youngster since it was very small. After leaving the younster behind and heading further

Tour at 20:30

Report from Hafsúlan: The weather was still very nice for whale watching. We headed straight to that area we were seeing the minke whales on our previous tours today. We saw lot of birds now in that area who were actively feeding so that was a good sign. Yet again we were ve

Tour at 20:30

Unfortunately the tour was cancelled due to unfavourable weather conditions.

Tour at 17:00

Report from Hafsúlan: We started again from Reykjavík into a bit more windy and choppy bay this afternoon. We headed straight out into the bay and decided to stop

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding : We started the tour in a beautiful blue sky and headed straight toward Akurey to watch a few hundred puffins flying around the island or just sitting on the water close to the shore. We enjoyed the sun on our way to the area we usually spot the whales an

Tour at 20:30

Report from Elding. Like yesterday, we began the tour at puffin island to take nice photos of this colourfull bird. We then sailed straight into the sunset focusing our eagle eyes on the water surface. We only started explaining the clock system that a Minke Whale surfaced r

Tour at 2030

Report from Hafsulan. We started the tour at puffin Island where we had a 10 minute stop to take really nice photos with the beautiful light of the sun going down. We then headed offshore to search for cetaceans. It didn't take long before we saw the first Minke Whale,

Tour at 2030

Report from Skrúður: We started the tour at puffin island where we could have a look at many flying puffins and moreover a wonderful rainbow over Reykjavik giving us the opportunity to take a really nice photo of the capital of Iceland illuminated by the midnight sun. Then

Tour at 2030

Unfortunately the midnight tour is cancelled for this evening.

Tour at 1700

Report from Hafsúlan We started the tour again at the Puffin colony Akurey and were happy to find a lot of them there. After that we sailed for a very long time trough the bay

Tour at 2030

Tour at 1700

Report from Hafsúlan We stopped again on our way out at Akurey to see the Puffins. Then we headed far out into the bay, where the wind picked up a little bit. We searched for a long time until we spotted the first Minke Whale af the tour. It sho

Tour at 2030

Report from Elding; What a crazy night. The conditions were just stunning, beautiful light, calm seas and the sun set behind the whales surfacing was breath-taking. We started the tour at Akurey but most the puffins must of been snuggled up in their burrow as there were n

Tour at 20:30

Report from Skrúður: The wind had picked up a bit when we headed out to search for the whales. We wanted to go far out this evening to search for the whales. But after only 20 minutes or so we saw that the wind was picking up a lot and we could not get further out. We search

Tour at 20:30

Report from Hafsúlan: We were so excited to go out on the first midnight tour of the season. We decided to head straight out to search for the whales and stop by at Akurey on the way back home. We searched in a very large area and after a long time we saw a blow from a minke

Tour at 1700

Report from Hafsúlan: disheartened by the lack of sightings on the 1300 tour, we bordered for the 1700 tour and decided to try our luck in a different area. Instead of sailing towards Snæfellsnes Peninsula, we decided to head west, alongside Sudurnes Peninsula and towards Gar

Tour at 17:00 Report from Elding

The wind had picked up a little bit this afternoon but we were very excited to go out after a great succes with previous tours. We headed very far out and once we were in that area where they were seeing the humpback whale we saw a big blow. We saw the blo

Tour at 1700

Report from Hafsúlan: After a rather dull start we spotted two subsequent blows in the beautiful evening light. After a while of waiting the minke whale finally showed us its shiny back and dorsal fin. It didn't surface again so we moved on. After turning the boat around in d

Tour at 1700

Report from Hafsúlan: It was a beautiful evening light tonight but the tour started off very slowly with a couple of Minkes on the way offshore but very elusive ones that were only seen once or twice and not showing up again. It wasn´t until much later in the tour that we got

Tour at 1700

Report from Hafsúlan: The last tour of the day was not that productive than the two others we did before. The weather was still great just the wind picked up a little bit and the surface of the ocean was not that calm anymore. We were sailing very far out and searching for a

Tour at 1700

Report from Hafsúlan: This tour we decided to head straight out into Faxaflói Bay and stop at the Puffin colony on our way back to Reykjavík. The weather was still great even the wind picked up a little bit but it was not that cold than in the morning. Once we were in the bay

Tour at 1700

Report from Hafsúlan: When we left the harbor we already knew from our sister vessel Elding that we should start our search close to land. So we did not head far out and stopped already in the area around Grótta to start the searching. Just when we wanted to go further out in