Happy new year!
North Sailing wishes everyone, far and near, a happy and successful new year! The following pictures were taken by Heimir Hardarson on the calm and beautiful new years eve in Húsavík.
North Sailing´s tv channel
In summer 2008 we had a team visiting from Realnature.tv from Kiel, Germany and in cooperation with our guide, Martin Varga, they documented whale watching with North Sailing as well as other subjects. The dialogs are in German but the clips speak for themselves. 🙂 The result can be seen on North Sailing´s realnature.tv channel: North Sailing.tv.…
October Whale Watching
This season has been a long one for North Sailing as we started with our scheduled tours on April 19th and today, october 14th, we‘re still taking passengers out to explore Skjálfandi Bay. On october 10th we sailed out with several brave tourists from 4 different countries: The Netherlands, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Russia. At this…
An autumn coast culture staff tour
The ordinary work was skipped this day and on a small bus the group ventured north over Tjörnes peninsular, visiting museum of Mánárbakki and then later the national park of Vatnajökull where a new visitors center was visited. The main goal of the tour was to have fun with friends and co-workers but visiting…
September super tour!
It was a september super tour that was offered today by captain Hreiðar Olgeirsson and guide, Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir when they ventured out to Skjálfandi bay on m/b Bjössi Sör. The last few days have been tricky with some unsuccessful tours but others with minke whales, humpback whales and even bottlenosed whales. Today however they…
North Sailing at Vestnorden for the 14th time!
Heimir Harðarson and Sunna Guðmundsdóttir, landlady of Gamli Baukur, went to Vestnorden Travel Mart 2008. This was Sunna's first time at the travelmart that this time was held in Reykjavík. For Heimir though it was more of a reunion as he was now attending his 11th Vestnorden since his first in 1996. North Sailing thanks all…
whale watching twice a day throughout September
Two trips are scheduled every day throughout September. At 10:00 and 13:30. So far September has been rather difficult with some tours without a sighting. Other tours have though been successful and a total of 6 species have been spotted recently: Bottlenosed whales, Minke whales, humpback whales, Blue whales, porpoises and dolhins.
The humpback is back!
After few weeks where the bottlenosed whales have been the main entertainer the humpback is back! Most of August has seen Northern bottlenosed whales play the main role in the bay but in the last trip of today captain Hreiðar and guide Thordis found a humpback whale to much joy after two very poor trips…
Bottlenosed whales still in main role!
Northern bottlenosed whales have now been in main role in Skjálfandi Bay for few weeks. These peculiar whales are perhaps not the easiest whales to watch as they can dive for a long time and swim very fast. But if you get close to them you might be lucky to get a good show as…
Arved Fuchs – Ice Climate Education in Húsavík
During 10th – 20th of August a group of 14 students from 12 different nations stayed in Húsavík. The reason was Arved's Fuchs second Ice Climate Education, (the first one was held in Spitsbergen (Svalbard) last year). The group was altogether 25 people, including teachers and lecturers and last but not least the chef…
Martin Varga
January 2006 The first e-mail which left my computer in Germany arrived a few seconds later on the mail-account of North Sailing in Húsavík on Iceland. I had to wait a couple of days, but than I got a reply from Heimir with mainly one question: – Dear Martin, are you experienced in sailing? Hhhmmmm,…
Northern Bottlenosed Whales in Skjálfandi
For the last week or so we have spotted two northern bottlenosed whales in many of our tours. These whales are rarely seen in inlets and bays, preferring deeper waters. No other whale species, except sperm whales, dives as deep as the northern bottlenose whale. Their diet, like that of other toothed whales, consists mainly…
Rémy Tokouda
This summer Rémy Tokouda from New-Caledonia has been working for us here at North Sailing. Rémy arrived in beginning of June. He was hitchhiking around Iceland and wanted to earn a some money to continue his journey. But he liked it so much here that he decided to spend the rest of his time in Iceland…
Jumping Humpback whale
Two days ago passengers on board schooner Haukur and Bjössi Sör witnessed a very active Humpback whale jumping for about 3 hours without stopping. We have seen some jumps this summer but nothing like that. When they jump the usually just do it few times but this one reminded us of the Humpback that jumped…
Busy day
Today we had a really big day so big that we had to rent an extra boat, Níels Jónsson, a 30 ton oak boat from Eyjarfjörður. We took Níels out for two tours today and we were very happy with the boat. The weather was fantastic today, sunny and 20°C and the Bay is full…
Killer whales killing a minke whale!
About a 100 passengers on North Sailing boats witnessed a group of Killer whales killing a Minke whale today. Something very few people have witnessed before was encountered by two of North Sailing boats. It was an emotional moment when people could see the wild nature at its wildest when the minke whale was being slaughtered.…
Plenty of whales in Skjálfandi Bay
For the last few days there has been a lot of whales inside Skjálfandi Bay. We have spotted Dolphins, Minkes, a lot of Humpbacks and Blue whales. The weather has also been good and the weather forecast for the week is great. Passengers taking pictures of a Humpback whale. Annual Húsavík…
Humpbacks and Minkes
Skjálfandi Bay is full of whales at the moment. This morning we sailed across the Bay and saw four Humpback whales and six Minke whales close to the mountains of Kinn. One of the Humpback whales between two of North Sailings boats, Bjössi Sör and Knörrinn One of the Humpback whales…
Blue Whales again
This morning we spotted three Blue whales in Skjálfandi Bay. We haven't seen the Blue whales now for more than a week so we were really glad to see those giants again. Passenger on board schooner Haukur looking at one of Blue whales The Blue whales were very calm so it was easy…
A sunny day
Today, after a lot of fog, rain and cold northerly wind for the last few days, the sun started to shine again here in Húsavík. This morgning we took both Náttfari and Bjöss Sör out for whale whatching with 115 passengers. One of the Humpback whales close to our boat Náttfari …
Six departures each day from 1st of July
From today, 1st of July and until 11th of July there will be six departures each day. You can see the timetable by clicking here. The weather here in Húsavík has been rather bad for the last few days, rainy and strong wind. So today we could only go out twice. In those…