Fantastic whale watching!!!

To make it short: Today we had two amazing whale watching tours, probably the best tours so far this season. We had beautiful sunny weather the whole day here in Skjálfandi Bay with almost no clouds at all.   This morning we started by searching the area around the Fish Rock (“Fiskisker” in icelandic), as…

A Blue Whale in the snow

We left the harbour this morning with high hopes, trying to find the blue whale again that we spotted yesterday afternoon. As we crossed the bay in westerly direction, sailing towards the mountains, it was snowing quite a lot and we also enjoyed some superb bird watching in these winterly conditions! We saw several Northern…

The Blue Whale is back!!!

Today we went on two trips in beautiful weather conditions. On our morning tour at 10:00 we went out with the crew and the former owners of our new sailing boat “Opal” and they really enjoyed sailing around with us in Skjálfandi Bay. But the highlight was our afternoon trip! After sailing for about 45…

A Humpback and a Minke!

We went out with a very nice group of passengers this morning in southerly winds and when leaving the harbour, we sailed west towards the mountains, into the area where we found a minke whale yesterday. When we arrived in the area close to the “Fish Rock” (or “Fiskiskerið” in icelandic), we encountered a huge…

3 species

Today we went out both at 10:00 and 13:30. In the morning tour we spotted a minke whale close to the mountains and in the afternoon there were dolphins and harbour porpoises in addition to the minke whale.   Quite much life in the bay and hopefully this is a sign of more whales coming…

Dolphins

We went out today after 3 days of bad weather. There was still quite heavy swells and really cold. Nevertheless, we managed to find a group of White beaked dolphins and observe them for a while. There was also quite a lot of Puffins in the bay so it seems like spring is on the…

Snowy Skjálfandi

Today was freezing cold but we decided to try our luck anyway. In the beginning of the tour, it seemed to be clearing up, we could even see the sun for a while. We headed across the bay towards the mountains but when we got there, it had begun snowing again! So unfortunately there were…

Blue whale & dolphins!

Today was beautiful, but still very cold with air temperature around 0°C. We sailed out from the harbour and it wasn´t long until we met some White beaked dolphins. After playing with them for a while, we headed further west, towards the mountains where the minke whale had been yesterday. However, there was no sign…

My first Minke in 2013

Today was my first tour since last summer and it was refreshing sailing out on Bjössi Sör together with captain Hrólfur and close to 30 passengers. The weather conditions were good, slow southerly winds, quite flat sea and the sun was trying it´s best to break through the clouds. The air temperature was not high,…

North Sailing – Season 18

The first tour of the season from Húsavík was today and it was no dull season start! Quite the opposite! 🙂 There´s always much excitment within the North Sailing team when embarking on the first tour of the season since we never know if the whales know the season really has started! 🙂   Our…

Humpbacks on every tour

This last week has been really good in our whale watching tours from Akureyri.  Humpbacks on every tour, usually from 6-8 different individuals.  Please remember that our daily tours depart 13:00 every day basically from the towns center, Torfunesbryggjan.  For further information click here.

Humpback and Minke Festival!

This weekend we have had absolutely amazing whale watching conditons again. The weather has been really good in October so far and also yesterday and today the sun was shining for most of the time, making the bay look really beautiful, especially the mountains on the western side of the bay.   Also the whales…