Whale Watching Blog

A note on Porpoises and the baby Seal who saved the day.

It was very busy this morning here in Húsavík, as the cruiseship

Silver Cloud is paying us a visit. I went out together with captain Óli and assistant guide Oddvar on a special trip with 35 cruiseship passengers on our sailing schooner Haukur.

Finally the wind calmed down a bit!

The weather has been bad these three days and we haven't been able to go to sea. People have been busying themselves with work in the office or working on the boats in harbour.

Today the weather was pretty bad and the sea was really rough so going out I wasn‘t very optimistic. My pessimism was however unfounded as on both tours I went out on today we got a very good look at a minke whale.

Yesterday we got a very pleasant visit from a small polar bear called Bjössi who is travelling around Iceland posing for pictures in many of the beautiful places you can find here.

This morning the weather was quite bad and the sea was really rough. I went out on Garðar with captain Einar, Deckhands Ísak and Teresa and engineer Jóhann.

Today was really wet and the sea was rather rough. Some minke whales had been spotted before during the day all the way on the western side of the bay so we headed that way. Locating a whale took some time but once we located one we managed to hang on to it for a while and got pretty close as well.

This was a day for raincoats.  It didn't look like it when we started out this morning, being very sunny in the harbor, but it soon became apparent.

We knew for a fact that some minke whales where in the western part of the bay, so that was our destination. We ran into couple of Harbour porpoises and plenty of White-beaked dolphins on our way there and finally we reached the creek called Naustavík in the west.

I went out on two tours on Garðar today.  The former one was good, we drove to the western side of the bay, running into some white beaked dolphins on the way, and then taking a look at a few minke whales under the creeks and peaks of Víknafjöll.

The weather today was great; Unusual southern breeze and sun as the day wore on.

This morning it was a really nice, calm weather and we didn't travel for long when the crew on Bjössi Sör called us to say they saw a minke whale.