“Kúti” and friends

We went out at 10:00 this morning with a big group of british tourists from a cruiseship that has been in Akureyri today and the tour started off really well! I had just finished my introduction speech, when captain Hrólfur told me that he had seen a blow, just a few minutes after we had…

Countless humpbacks

Today Garðar went out on two trips and these two were no exception from last week! A bay full of humpbacks that were feeding and some of them even breaching and lop tailing. The crew felt as we were barely out of the harbor when we found the first humpback and after that it was…

Blue Whale in the bay!

The days are just magnificent! I have done now one trip today, and had an excellent encounter with Humpback Whales and Minke Whales. I had the privilege to sail with Silja as 2nd Guide and we had a great discussion and shared opinions and experience. This is becoming more and more frequent, two Guides going on…

Guide in training

Today was just an ordinary day. The weather was a little gray this morning and a little drizzle when we headed out, but Whale wise it was just great, Humpbacks, Minkes and Dolphins and all very close to us. The afternoon trip was just about the same, only a little sunnier. So nothing to complain…

Whales in the evening sun

Tonight I had the pleasure to sail the evening tour together with captain Már onboard “Bjössi Sör”. It didn’t take us long until we found a nice group of white-beaked dolphins, just 15 minutes after we had left the harbor.  We stayed with the dolphins for a while until we decided to sail further west,…

Lively bay and harbour

Another wonderful day in Husavik, lots of sun, beautiful mountains and lots of wildlife. We saw big groups of puffins, arctic terns and fulmars, all close to 2 blue whales feeding north from Husavik. On the way we lingered with humpback whales, who were close to the boat and showing their beautiful flukes high above…

Bumpy, but still amazing

Today was really good. The morning trip was wet though, and quite rough, with some people getting sea sick. We headed directly towards the mountains, hoping for the same feast as yesterday but with no real luck. We got treated though by loads of Dolphins, funny since we saw none of them yesterday. In the…

Amazing Day

Today was absolutely amazing. Not only was the weather very good, but the Whales were fantastic. Funny enough though, it did not look like the morning trip would be too good, we sailed for a long, long time, across the bay to the mountains without seeing anything. Reports from other boats were just the same,…

Whale adventure!

It’s very hard to describe in words the feeling of seeing the big BLUE whales, especially seeing more than one of them and just a one hour sailings away from the harbour of Húsavík.   Whether I’ve been on our NS-2 Whales, Puffins and Sails or on the Orignal Whale Watching tour (NS-1) it has…

White sails and blue whales

The day was great for our guests aboard Schooner Hildur for our Whales, puffins & sails tour.  In the morning tour we had 4 different species and quite a lot of good sailing in the northerly breeze.  Those species included, white beaked dolphins, minke whales, humpback whales and even a blue whale although we didn’t…

What a day, what a bay!

What a day, what a bay, what can I say!?  Well, I can say that I sailed the fantastic schooner Hildur with a fantastic crew (Remy, Martin, Ármann & Hildur) today and yesterday, a total of 4 NS2 trips and it was bloody fantastic!  Humpbacks, minkes and dolphins plus Puffin Island so full of puffins…