Orcas in the bay!!!!!!

The fact that we never know what’s awaiting us when we’re heading out into the bay is one of the things that make our job so exciting! So it happened today. In the morning we decided to sail into the area where we spotted some wildlife yesterday in the evening. It’s always a good start…

Epic tour

Although nature is always unpredictable, there are some days where everything seems to be simply perfect. Such as today. The morning was already quite successful – we observed a minke whale in the beginning and later on a humpback whale, which was great to see. Furthermore the weather conditions were perfect, it was calm and…

What an evening tour!

When we left the harbour at 17:00 today onboard “Náttfari”, we had already been on two very successful tours, but this evening tour turned out to be simply amazing: After about sailing for one hour, we found the humpback whale that we had already seen earlier today. It was obviously feeding at the surface as…

Back again

After yesterday had been a quite difficult day and the bay seemed to be almost empty regarding marine mammals, I have to admit we were a bit sceptical this morning, when we headed out to look for some animals. Would we be more successful today than the day before? However, to my mind this is…

Where are the whales???

After a stormy night we were curious what was awaiting us – wind from the north often brings lots of nutrients in the bay, thus increasing the availability of food which hopefully attracts some wildlife. However, it turned out to be quite difficult to find some animals. We decided to sail in northwesterly direction to…

Adventures

Every tour I’m starting with telling the passengers that we are heading out into the wild nature and not into any kind of a zoo. And I’m serious about that! We never know what to expect on our tours and every day is a new challenge to find the wildlife. Today was one of the…

… blowing in the wind …

Wooooooh, what a stormy day was today! Some “leftovers” from a hurricane hit Iceland and brought us rough sea conditions. This is always a challenge for us, since it’s more difficult to spot some animals between the high waves and the white caps caused by the wind are quite tricky as well. However, we were…

Entertaining whales

The wonderful weather causes good mood – not only all our passengers were in perfect mood today, but also the whales. In the morning we observed a humpback whale, when suddenly a minke whale surfaced close to the bigger animal. These whales are usually quite shy and sometimes difficult to approach. Not so that one!…

Whales and sunshine!

No need for the warm and cozy overalls that we provide today– the sun was shining and it was really warm.   We had great success on all of our tours today. We had quite a few Humpback Whales spread around the bay and they all seemed to be relaxed and enjoying the sun. We…

Summer!?

There was one thing we really didn’t need today: our cosy overalls! It was incredibly warm and when the wind calmed down and the sun made her way through the dark clouds it felt like a day in midsummer! In the morning it didn’t take us too long to find the whales. After about half…

Perfect day!!!!

What a day was today! Everything seemed to be perfect. It was very calm, a bit cloudy (so no glare!) and unusual warm. The visibility was even good enough to see Grímsey, the island located at the Arctic Circle. Best conditions to spot the whales! And it didn’t take us too long to find them.…

The sun is back! :-D

Finally the weather changed and we got excellent conditions for whale watching today: It was sunny and quite warm and the wind calmed down. After a storm it’s always exciting to go out, because the waves are mixing the water column, which might increase the availability of food and thus attract the whales! However, there…