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.
Finally after searching around in the bay, capt. Hrólfur and guide Christain managed to find a minke whale!
The same difficult situation: no whales were spotted during these days…
Unfortunately we did not find any whales during these days…
In 1 out of 3 trips did we see whales today… It wasn´t until in the 17 o´clock tour that we found the Humpback again. One tricky whale this Humpback! 😉
Today we went out 3 times and the Humpback was spotted in all tours plus some porpoises in two tours. Humpback going for a deep dive. © Christian Schmidt Captain Hreiðar in action. © Christian Schmidt
