Whale diary
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BLUE WHALES AND MORE!! Once again another crazy day out at sea. First of all we came across a pod of White-backed Dolphins which seemed to be a bit elusive probably due to the fact that they had juveniles with them. Really nice to watch though as the babies surfaced side by
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Third day in a row we headed out form Grindavík and third day in a row we found the Blue whale. What luck, it was still in the area. It didn't take us a long time spotting the huge blow far away. We spent a long time with the Blue whale and it surfaced many times very close
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BLUE WHALES TAKE TWO!! Once again we headed out from Grindavík with cold crisp air and some wind. We first saw Harbour Porpoises then we headed further out in hope to find the Blue Whales once again. Then we saw it, the blowwe were all waiting for and as we got closer we not
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BLUE WHALES!!! I don't have a word for this tour because it was so amazing but I will try. We headed out from Grindavík this time because the weather was not so good in Faxaflói. Soon we spotted some harbour porpoises, the smallest cetaceans around Iceland and they were fast
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It was a bit rough this after noon because there was some swell out in the bay. It took us along time to find the whales this time. Suddenly some of our passengers spotted some harbour porpoises. But they only showed up a few times before disappearing. Further out we found a
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It was so nice to be back out in the bay today after two days of cancellations due to the bad weather. We headed out in not the best of weathers but much much nicer than what we have had. We saw White beaked Dolphins on this tour which were really far out. They were amazing,
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We sailed directly out to the area were we spotted the minke whale earlier. But no sign of it. Further out we found the young minke whale again. In the beginning it was very difficult to get close to it, then after using a lot of patience, finally the small cute minke surfac
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The sea condition was calm and pretty good weather when we headed out this afternoon. After sailing for some time we spotted one minke whale. In the beginning it was quite tricky to follow it but after a while it became very nice to us surfacing many times and one time only
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It was still very windy on this tour and you could also feel the rain when heading into the wind but it was ok when heading with it. Unfortunately no Minkes or Dolphins for this tour but we did see Harbour Porpoises jumping quite high and a lot of them too. Not to many birds
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We headed out from Hafnarfjörður this afternoon and travelled near to the coast along the Rekjanes Peninsula towards Keflevik. It took us a while to see our first cetacean but eventually we found quite a large pod of White-beaked Dolphins with really small calves. We stayed
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The wind had picked up a bit when we headed out on our afternoon tour. It took as some time to find something but then we spotted the White Beaked Dolphins. The dolphins came really close to the boat only 3 meters from us. They where diving under the surface close to the boa
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The weather was much better on this tour. We didn't had to wait long before we spotted the first Minke Whale. After a while we spotted a few Minke Whales in the same area. One Minke Whale surfaced only 10 meters from the boat. It was also amazing to see the Gannets diving, t
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The weather was getting better and better when we headed out this afternoon. It was a fantastic tour we got. A big group of fast swimming harbour porpoises crossed our path and we could see them very clearly. We spotted one minke whale far away and when we got closer we saw
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A very successful tour. Calm seas, blues skies and once again great visibility. Our first cetacean of the tour was a large pod of Harbour Porpoises which we were able to stay with for a short time before spotting a small pod of White-beaked Dolphins in the distance. These we
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The wind had picked up a little on this tour but the sun was still strong and visibility was still perfect. Our first cetacean of this tour was a Minke Whale which did surface many times to begin with but surfaced more frequently later on. We got word from Elding II about so
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The weather was very nice, the sea was getting calmer but the whales were hard to find once again. We spent a long time searching and no sign of them. On our way back to the harbour suddenly a big group of white-beaked dolphins showed up 50 meters from the boat. And it was a