The weather today was murky, windy and wet when 78 brave passengers and 5 crew members set out on Náttfari at 13:30. But our bravery was well rewarded when we found a humpback, the second humpback of the trip, breaching in front of the boat. Even when we got closer it kept on breaching (nearly its…
When I woke up this morning and heard the rain slamming on my window I quickly jumped out of bed and looked out. It was foggy, wet and windy.. truly a great day for whale watching!! Inspite of the weather a decision was made about going out at 09:00 to „check it out“. To see…
Today was a good day in the bay. The weather was a bit on the downside, a bit of wind, raindrops now and then and also some fog, but our brave passengers did not let that affect them and were awarded greatly! For most of the day we saw several humpbacks, including one which…
I really enjoyed myself today, it was sunny and the humpback whales were amazing. They seem to be really calm these days and making a show almost every day. I had two trips today on Náttfari with Gylfi, Siggi and Ármann who's a new guide in training. On the earlier trip we had one humpback whale swimming alongside the boat for…
The basking shark. Photo: Birgit F. Unger. My second trip, with my father Hörður as captain, today in the fog was something I'll never forget and probably never experience again, but never say never! I always say to the passengers when we´re heading out that every trip is unique and this was no exeption.…
When I went out this morning at 9:00 it was so foggy I was pretty sure we wouldn't find anything. But we took our chances, went out in the hope of running into something. And we literally had to run into something because it was no chance of seeing anything from a distance. And that is…
There were at least four individual humpback whales in the bay today. I went out twice today and on my earlier trip we saw two side by side, one of which I recognize from the last days, and then we saw the third humpback whale a bit further away. On the same tour a group of white-beaked dolphins were seen and…
I had the two last trips today which were both really nice. When we went out we heard from another boat that there were two humpback whales about an hour away so we started heading there. But then I saw a blow which was just around the middle of the bay which turned out to…
After the great weather we've been having the last days it was still sunny today but really windy. We fortunately managed to have luck with blue whales on all the tours except the 12:30 tour where only one minke whale was spotted once. When it's windy, bumpy and sunny like today it often makes it…
The weather keeps being nice to us, specially in the afternoon today. I went out twice today and on the first trip we saw one very nice humpback whale but on my second trip the bay was a bit livelier. We were barely out of the harbour when we saw at least two, if not…
After ten days of a bay without blue whales, they were spotted again today. This morning we had seen white beaked dolphins and a humpback whale but when captain Hrólfur and me went out at 12:00 we spotted a large blow around the middle of the bay which turned out to be a blue whale, the first…
The weather today and yesterday has been amazing, over 20°C and sunny which doesn't happen a lot in Iceland. So I really enjoyed being out in the bay today. I went twice with capain Hrólfur on Knörrinn and on both tours we had great results. On the earlier trip we actually saw one minke whale…
This was a bit strange day weather-wise. When we went out this morning it was a bit cloudy but not foggy so it was no problem to find the three humpback whales that have been here the last days. Then at 13:30 when me and captain Hreiðar went out it was getting a bit foggy.…
We went out this morning on two boats, me on Bjössi Sör and Halla Marín on Náttfari. The bay was totally calm and the sun was (is still) shining. Close to the mountains we found two humpback whales side by side, both of them we have been seeing in the last days. Anyways, we got…
The humpbacks are still in the bay, making our visitors happy. Today we witnessed three of them feeding together in the surface. They kept very much together, surfacing at the same time and so close together they seemed to be touching. All three have been spotted earlier this season and we are very glad that…
Tonight was an easy whale watching tour. We started out pretty optimistic since there had been a lot of whales in the bay today and were not disappointed. We found two beautiful humpback whales soon after leaving the harbour. They were very easy to follow and gave us a good show. After a while…
Well, it seems as the blue whales have gone further out, at least we didn't see any today. There were however three humpback whales in the bay. I went out this morning and we found the first humpback just a mile or two out and had a really good luck with it. Furhter out we…
Today we had the best luck! We found two lovely humpback whales which were very friendly for the first trip, swimming along calmly and easy to follow. However when we returned on our 13:30 trip one of them became very curious and came very close to the boat. At one point the whale swam…
On the first tour this morning it took some time to find a whale, I think almost thwo hours had passed before they found one blue whale and did a great show. Then me and captain Hreiðar came out at 12:00 and also had great success with the same blue whale. At that time it…
Tonight we had a fantastic tour. Practically as soon as we left the harbour we spotted two blue whale blows in the distance. We quickly caught up with them and were able to follow them for quite some while, at least the good part of an hour! The two of them stayed very close together…
I did three tours today and wow! This day was amazing. Apart from a bit strong wind during the middle of the day, the weather was nice and sunny. But there were so many blue whales and humpback whales that I soon lost track of the number even though I tried hard to count them.…
