Today I went on my first two trips of this summer. This is my second year with North Sailing and I was a little rusty but it quickly came back to me. The first trip was on Náttfari with capt. Hrólfur, Hjörleifur the engineer and a new guide in training Steinunn. We found some playful…
This morning we had an excellent tour on Bjössi Sör, me and captain Hrólfur with 16 passengers. It was snowing a little bit when we left the harbor and it increased as we got further out in the bay but, fortunately, it stopped after about half an hour. We saw a group of white-beaked dolphins…
Today was the first time this season that our boat “Bjössi Sör” was used for whale watching. The crew of “Knörrinn” went out at 9:00 this morning with a group of school children from Húsavík and when we went out on Bjössi Sör for the 10:00 whale watching tour we had beautiful weather conditions: the…
Today the harbor filled with life again, after one week of bad weather both local fisherman and whale watchers were happy to go out into the bay! We went on two tours, at 10:00 and 13:30, and in both of them we were successful. In the morning we found a humpback whale, a group of…
Iceland’s most active volcano Grimsvotn has erupted, sending a plume of white ash 18,000 feet into the air. The volcano lies under the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland, an area which is uninhabited. This eruption comes just one year after the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted, sending a cloud of ash over Europe that impeded air…
The weather the last few days has reminded us of anything but summer, with a foggy bay and a stiff northern wind that makes sea conditions great for sickness, but rather poor for whale watching. Today, any sign of summer is gone with it actually snowing which is unseasonal even for Iceland. Although the…
This morning we saw another humpback whale breach close to the boat, the second day in a row! Even though the sea was rough and not quite the best whale watching conditions we were lucky enough to see two different humpback whales. The first one was in the middle of the bay and we followed…
When we left the harbour this morning at 10:00, the wind was blowing quite strong from the north and that often means that there is some swell in the bay. The conditions were totally different from yesterday and even though it was a bumpy ride, it didn’t take us long to spot the blow from…
While getting ready for the 1:30 PM trip I heard that the crew that went out at 10:00 had spotted one of the Humpbacks. That was certainly joyous news. The playful Humpback is a crowd favourite and always a delight. I didn’t dare hope we’d be so lucky to see them both but thankfully we…
Today we had a cold wind blowing from the north and it was also a bit foggy, especially during our morning tour. But we managed to get some very close views of two minke whales in the western part of the bay, close to the mountains. In the afternoon we were heading west again…
This morning we had some swell coming from the north, which made it a bit tricky to find the whales. But after some searching in the area where we had seen the minke whales during the last days (close to the mountains), we were finally succesful and found two minke whales. In the afternoon…
At 10:00 this morning we went out with 24 passengers in beautiful weather with a flat calm sea. The visibility was perfect and it did not take us long until we found a minke whale. Even though the whale was often taking quite long dives, he was very calm at the surface and always came…
When we left the harbour this morning it was still quite foggy in the bay, but after some searching we managed to find the humpback whale again, the same one that has been around now for the last two days. We got some very close looks at this whale and after a while, we left…
A humpback whale has not been spotted in Skjálfandi this season before apart from the brief visit into Húsavík harbour just before the season start… until today! Captain Hrólfur was then, like so many previous years the first captain in the area to spot a humpback whale in Skjálfandi bay. Passengers on Knörrinn were…
The day today is officially the first day of summer in Iceland and today the first minke whale was found by captain Hrólfur on good old Knörrinn. So far this season it’s been mainly harbor porpoises and white beaked dolphins seen on the tours plus a tour with lots of Killer whales and just before…
After a slow start with 3 tours where the playful Harbour porpoises played the main role, things started to get serious today. Knörrinn, with 13 passengers (lucky 13) headed out to the bay into a glittering Skjálfandi bay with the magnificent mountains of Kinn graciously rising at the horizon. After roughly two hours of…
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North Sailing’s 17th season started today when captain Hrólfur and guide Nils went out on Knörrinn with 19 passengers, mostly tourist but also locals. It was raining when we boarded, grey and cloudy when we sailed out of the harbor and a little bit sunny when we returned after more than 3 hours out…
Whale Watching is still really enjoyable here in Skjàlfandi Bay and this morning we found three different species of whales on the tour: first we had a good look at a minke whale, then we were watching a humpback whale and on the way home we ran into a group of white-beaked dolphins. The…
Today we just had another wonderful day in Skjàlfandi Bay. In conditions like this, it is simply a lot of fun to be out at sea. Captain Hròlfur and I went out at 10:00 on “Bjössi Sör” in calm seas and good conditions (it was just a bit foggy further out) and we managed to…
The weather was really great when I went out with captain Hrólfur onboard “Bjössi Sör” this morning. When leaving the harbour, we were setting the course directly north-west, towards the area where we had seen the humpback whale yesterday. Of course we had hope that he is still around, but obviously the whale had left…
