A sleeping humpback whale

The weather conditions were fantastic when we left the harbour this morning: The sun was shining (we had up to 21°C in Húsavík today), the sea was calm, and our crew was optimistic that it would be a good tour….and we were right!   It started with a humpback whale that was spotted not far…

The Blues are back!

Today was great. In the 10 o’clock trip we had a very close encounter with 3 Humpback Whales. They were so close to land that we had a lot of time to spare and took the detour to the Puffin Island, something we usually don’t do in the 3 hours trips. The Sail Boats on the other…

Whales, dolphins & more!

It was a bit windy this morning, as me and captain Hrólfur headed out on the Skjálfandi Bay, looking for whales. We managed to take a good look at a humpback whale, while seeing more blows in a distance. In the 13:30 tour, the bay literally came to live! How wonderful! There were birds feeding…

And the whale festival goes on!

The bay was busy this morning. We first met a sleepy Humpback whale which we left resting after having seen him, or her, surface a couple of times. After another 10 minute sail we saw some White-beaked dolphins, around 20 of them, adults and calves together. They were speeding and changing direction quite a bit…

Friday the 13th

Even though it was a windy and wavy morning, the 10 o’clock trip was fun, nice people onboard, and the whale watching successful!   I went out on our biggest boat Garðar this morning. The weather was clear sky but it had already started to blow up out on the bay. We went straight out…

Blue whales in Ólafsfjörður and Northern bottlenosed whales in Húsavík

Apart from the usual suspects this was a great day for whale watching both in Skjálfandi bay (Húsavík) and Eyjafjörður (Ólafsfjörður).  Northern bottlenosed whales were spotted in Skjálfandi bay and now two blue whales turned up just outside Ólafsfjörður and entertained 18 lucky passengers who had just been watching several humpback whales when the huge strokes from the…

“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…