For the first time since the beginning of our daily-scheduled tours, the sun was not with us as we left Husavik‘s harbour. And for close to 3 hours, the picturesque Skalfandí Bay was the only thing that could have warmed our hearts. But just as we were coming back empty-handed, a large pod of about…
The days go by in Husavik and the beautiful weather has not yet left us. We welcomed today quite a large crowd for this time of the year. And if the whales are not yet back with us, our guests still very much enjoyed the ever more stunning lanscape on the East side of the…
It is with an extended crew that we went out at sea today. In addition to the captain Már, our guide Nils and I, Samuel, former North Sailing guide and futur North Sailing Captain, joined us today, on the lookout for whales. If this search happened to be unsuccesful, our very dear Skalfandí Bay guarantied…
Our 11.am tour today was a very quiet one. If we started under quite a cloudy sky our morning together, the sun slowly lifted up. The whales didn´t show themselves, but the atmosphere aboard remained a very cheering one, thanks to both the stunning panoroma offered by the snowy bay and the irresistible humour of…
Today‘s today tour went on under quite a cloudy sky. Even though the whales weren‘t kind enough to show themselves, our guests were eager to learn about the west part of the bay and its many stories. The Viknafjöll moutains have recovered part of their snowy blankets overnight, and could therefore offer us a breathtaking…
The scheduled tours keep on benefiting from the surprisingly enjoyable weather that bathes the Northern shores of Iceland these days. Our newly tanned crew was able to spot from up-close a large pod of harbour porpoises. These tooth whales are the smallest whales observed in the bay. And especially, they are hardly seen so close…
A Caribbean-like sun has once more enlightened our 11.am tour today. Even though we were unlucky in our search for whales, we did enjoy a spectacular view on Skalfandí Bay. And our very experienced guide, Nils, was able to narrate plenty of interesting anecdotes about the history of Husavik´s surroundings. Our guests were more than…
Today was another fantastic day in Husavik, weatherwise. And another succesfull whale-watching trip for us! After a good hour on our whale-watching vessel Nattfari, we observed for several minutes a group of about 10 dolphins. It was our very first dolphin sighting of the year! The weather forecast seems quite good for tomorow again. So, be…
Today was our second scheduled tour out in the bay. And, for our greatest pleasure, we had the surprise of spotting once more a blue whale, the largest animal to have lived on our planet! The blue whales are frequent visitors of our waters, but not in mid-march. Adding to it a beautiful sunny weather,…
Today we went on two tours here in Skjálfandi Bay and saw whales on both of them. On the morning tour we had a large Humpback Whale and also got to see one Minke Whale for a while. Our friends on schooner Haukur also had some White-beaked Dolphins nearby. On the afternoon tour we had…
A sunny and sweet day on the water, even if there was some splashing on the way out on both tours. On both we had one Minke Whale and one Humpback Whale and got very good views of each species on numerous occasions. Baldur (Guide on Náttfari 27/9/2015)
Today we did two tours in the southern wind and had a somewhat better tour in the morning. Then we started off with one Minke Whale and managed to see it quite well even if in between we lost it. Then we had one Humpback Whale and knew of at least 1-2 others in the…
Well today we certainly earned our pay as we really had to go far out to find the whales. The sea conditions were not the best but we still managed to see the animals and follow them all right. On the morning tour we had one Humpback Whale and knew of another one nearby while…
It was a slightly chillier day today than yesterday and we had one young Humpback Whale entertaining us on both tours; the same one as yesterday, with a greyish back. Also we had a good Minke Whale towards the end of the afternoon tour. Baldur Thorvaldsson (Guide on Náttfari 22/9/2015)
Today was as sunny and sweet as most of July was not. The sea was as good as perfect and same applied to visibility. On the morning tour there were at least 2 Humpback Whales in the bay and possibly up to 4 and in the afternoon there was at least 1 Humpback but we…
Náttfari is only doing two tours a day now (but Bjössi three). Today we were able to go out after two days of storm and relevant cancellations. On both tours we had some lovely sightings. On the morning tour we had some 4-6 Minke Whales and all of them were relaxed and could be viewed,…
The tours today have been greatly affected by fog and poor visibility although we were able to “save” two out of three. On the morning tour we found and enjoyed one (possibly two) Humpback Whales and on the afternoon tour we had one of the best Minke Whales that I have seen in my three…
The three trips today on Náttfari have been incredible, although in very different ways. On every single one the weather was magical and sunny though. It was just that despite many boats searching the entire bay in the morning, no whale could be found. A small group of White-beaked Dolphins was seen in the morning…
Three tours on Náttfari today and all were different ones. In the morning we had the Humpback trio that have been so often seen together, plus a single one staying around but still a bit away from the others, it is the young Humpback with the white on the dorsal fin, perhaps it is not…
Orcas! I have been guiding here for three months and been waiting to write this blog the whole time! Finally the animals that I adore more than most others (yes, of course our regular Humpbacks are darlings too) appeared in our bay! Not a common sight by any means here but when they do appear,…
It was such good trips we had today on Bjössi Sör, plenty of Humpback Whales around and at least one really close look at a sizable Minke Whale was a bonus on the morning trip. But the main name of the game today were the Humpbacks as usual, 7-10 of them they were and easy…
