Had good luck with a Humpback and a Blue Whale in the evening sun today. The Blue Whales hadn‘t been spotted all day but in the evening sun their spouts light up and are easy to spot from very far away. I went out a 5 o‘clock on Bjössi Sör with cpt. Hrólfur and pretty…
Unfortunately the weather had changed a bit today and it was quite foggy the whole day. We didn’t find any blue whales today, hard to say if it was because they have gone or because we couldn’t spot them in the fog. But that doesn’t mean that we were out of luck today. The first…
These last two days have been simply amazing. A completely clear sky, calm wind and almost everywhere you look you see blows from the blue whale. We’ve been trying to keep count of how many blue whales there have been, at least seven on one tour but an avarage of three to four on each…
The weather in Húsavík has been absolutely fanstastic today, and so have our whale watching tours been. I went out at 12:00 AM on our smallest boat, Knörrinn. First we met our dear friend, a humpback whale that goes by the name Konni, which was here in the bay last summer as well. Another…
The blue whales that we found a few days ago didn’t stop for long but yesterday our crew on Bjössi Sör spotted TWO BLUE WHALES again! This is very good news and gives us great hopes that we’ll be having more blue whales coming in in the next days. It’s therefore looking pretty…
I went on the first NS-2 tour of the season today. NS-2 is a trip where we go out on the schooner Haukur and go whale-and bird watching. Then of course we put up the sails as well! The weather wasn´t the best and the sea was a bit rough, but like one optimistic passenger…
The weather forecast has been predicting good weather for a few days now but we haven’t seen much of it yet. It has been rather gloomy and grey these last days. But like we know, the weather doesn’t matter for the whales, they are still there. We haven’t seen a humpback whale though for two…
A big day in Iceland today, election day and Eurovision. But for us it doesn’t matter which day it is, the whales neither vote nor sing in Eurovision. The both tours today were quite similar. There was a humpback whale in the middle of the bay, some porpoises all around and a minke whale in…
Crew and passengers on board Náttfari went out at 10:00 like usual but to their surprise they found two blue whales, a mother with a calf, in the middle of the bay! This is exceptionally early to see a blue whale but in the last years they have been spotted in the first week…
It was raining this morning when I got to work and looking over the bay I didn´t feel excited for today´s tours. We went out on Náttfari at 10 am, captain Hrólfur, Tomasz (our engineer), myself and some 68 passengers. The sea was rough and it was foggy, we couldn´t even see the mountains ahead…
It was more than just chilly today here in Húsavík. It was extremely cold and the sea was not at its calmest. But the tourists they are not afraid of the cold and for the first time this season we went out on a full Bjössi Sör, with 56 passengers on board and 3 crew…
It got a little bit windy on sunday morning but it didn’t last long, the wind had calmed down in the afternoon. The weather fortunately didn’t affect our success with the whales. Humpback whales were seen on all our tours both days and usually minke whales and harbour porpoises as well. On the second tour…
This was my first day at sea this year and I can’t say I was disappointed. It was pretty cold, that’s to expect in May, but the sun broke out in the afternoon which was really nice. On the earlier tour we saw three nice minke whales and lots and lots of puffins. We went…
The last days have been really successful in Skjálfandi Bay. Our boat Bjössi Sör has been going out twice a day with happy passengers aboard. The weather has been over all nice in the last week, slightly cold but nothing that warm clothing and hot chocolate can’t fix. 3-4 whale species have been spotted almost…
This time the visability was poor and there were only harbour porpoises to be seen.
Today we went on our 2nd tour this season. The conditions were quite ok, northerly breeze, quite calm sea but rather cold. We started with searching for the humpback whale we left yesterday but it seemed to have moved on to a different feeding area. At least we couldn´t find it but hopefully it´ll…
During this tour we found some lively white beaked dolphins.
Minke whale was the entertainment that our guests got to enjoy while sailing out on Skjálfandi bay both on during those two days.
Today it was quite lively, we spotted a minke whale as well as some harbour porpoises and close to the mountains there was a small quorious seal swimming around:)
Capt. Hrólfur and guide Himmi went on two tours today and managed to show minke whale in both tours. You can read more about minke whales here.
The Minke whale seen 2 days ago hasn´t been found although seen by some fishermen every now and then. It seems to be feeding in the shallower parts of the bay but disapearing when we come to the area.
