A group of youngsters from the local school went out this morning but the trip was a part of a whale Hilda teaches the kids to fish and captain Hreiðar makes sure she does it right project that they participate in. The project is run by Þórhildur Jónsdóttir and the aim is to educate…
It was a bit foggy and cold today but who cares when you have the opportunity to get close to one of the largest creatures in the world? The humpback whale from the last two days took a day off from tourist watching today so the minke whale was today's star and on both…
The nice weather from yesterday unfortunately did not stick around for long, but all the same it was calm and nice. And of course, the whales don't care if it's sunny or not so we had the same luck with them as yesterday or 3-4 minke whales and yesterday's humpback whale was still in the…
I had a day off today and instead Himmi went out for the first time this season, with captain Hrólfur. It seems like the whales heard about Himmi's arrival and welcomed him into the bay. At least four minke whales were seen today but also one humpback whale. The weather was also fantastic, warm and nice…
Another sunny day and even better than yesterday. We went out on Náttfari at ten o‘clock, me, captain Hrólfur and Hörður as an engineer. After sailing for maybe 20 minutes Hörður thought he saw some movement far away, south of Húsavík in the inner part of the bay. We have not seen much of the…
It was my first day this season and it gave a great promise for the summer. The weather was decent at 10 o‘clock when we departed our first trip, cloudy but mild. The wind picked up at around 11 and it Halla and me at the end of her first trip looked like it would…
We went out twice today and the wind was lot calmer than yesterday but still, it was quite windy and the conditions to search for whales were not the best. All the same, we spotted in total 4 species today, although we only managed to see three of them properly. The humpback whales were, like often, the…
It was really windy this morning so we delayed the tour for an hour because the weather forecast predicted less wind later in the day. Unfortunately the wind did not calm down so it was extremly windy the whole tour which made it difficult searching for whales. We saw though a small group of dolphins…
We went out this morning and had great luck with whales but not as great weather because it was quite windy. We had not gone far when we saw a small group of white beaked dolphins and managed to have a really good look at them. We sailed for about 15 minutes and then we saw…
The last three days we haven't been able to go out at all because of a storm that was almost ewerywhere in Iceland. So this morning we went out for the first time after the storm and didn't find any whales. It's often like that in the bay after a storm. But we went out…
We saw the humpback whale from yesterday on both tours today. It was quite a cold tour, it was even snowing at one point, but seeing the humpback whale warmed us all up. Like sometimes in the last days the humpback whale was close to Puffin Island so we went puffin watching also. Unfortunately we probably…
The wind direction has changed and it was a slow wind from north, with temperature dropping a few degrees. Everybody forgot about the cold though when we started to see whales. First we found a group of nice dolphins that were playing and jumping a few times. Then we saw a humpback whale, but not…
This was my first day of whale watching this season. What a joy. Nice easterly breeze, sunshine most of the day and the sea was flat and calm. A humpback whale played with Náttfari on both tours today and two minke whales were spotted as well in the morning tour. This is promizing. Engineer of…
This was a brilliant day with a total of 4 whale species! We did two tours, both with quite many passengers and alltogether we spotted a humpback whale, minke whales, dolphins and harbour porpoises. The weather was beautiful, calm, sunny and warm and everyone, both crew and passengers enjoyed the trips very much. Þórdís,…
We went out twice today like we schedule to do in May. We found the humpback whale from yesterday in company with another humpback. Like yesterday we also spotted two minke whales. All these whales were in the eastern part of the bay which means that we didn't have to go far out to find…
The first humpback whale of the season was spotted on the tour today. We had heard about humpback whales from fisher men earlier in the week but not seen any until today. We saw it several times close by and it lifted the fluke every time it went deep-diving, like the humpback whales are famous for.…
We found the minke whale from yesterday again at pretty much the same place. Like yesterday we managed to see it quite close to the boat. It was sunny today so it was in the whole a beautiful trip. Þórdís, guide.
Today we finally saw a minke whale which we haven't seen for some days now. It had been a bit windy today but it had calmed down when we went out. After searching for an hour or so the minke whale popped up right next to the boat and we managed to see it a…
The weather remains beautiful but again the only whales we saw were harbour porpoises. The bird life in the bay in the last days has been good though, we have seen a lot of puffins and the gannets. Hopefully we'll start to see some bigger whales soon. Þórdís, guide.
Since the day when we saw the orcas the weather has been bad so we haven't been out for four days. It was beautiful weather today though, warm and calm but unfortunately there were not many whales in the bay. We only saw a group of harbour porpoises, quite a large one though, probably around 15…
After a 4 days break from whale watching because of bad weather we had a brilliant tour today! The weather was perfect, calm and quite warm. We had only been out for about half an hour when we saw a group of white beaked dolphins that were playing around the boat. While we were looking…
