Calm sea and calm whales

Today conditions were simply perfect: The sea was incredibly calm and flat like a mirrow. It was quite warm and visibility was excellent – best preconditions to find the whales. In the morning it took us some time to spot them. They were in the northwestern part of Skjálfandi Bay and interestingly despite the good…

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A fantastic trip in the sunset

We had already been successful earlier today with several humpback whales having been spotted on all our tours and some of our boats also saw minke whales and white-beaked dolphins. In the afternoon, our schooner “Opal” even spotted a blue whale, the biggest animal on earth!   The weather has also been great during the…

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Whales on holidays

Well, folks – it’s definetly SUMMER here in the north of Iceland! Today the sky was again deep blue and it was unusual warm, even out at sea! However, it took us some time to find the whales. We spotted several blows in the northern part of Skjálfandi Bay and close to Lundey, but the…

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A perfect start into a new week

With two days delay the summer arrived in Iceland! The sky was bright blue, the sea very calm and  in the sun we had quite high temperatures – almost none of our passengers needed an overall! So best conditions to go whale watching! We decided to sail west into an area, where we saw the…

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Sunday feeding party

Finally the rain stopped and today it was quite sunny. The wind came from north-westerly direction and it was a bit choppy when we sailed out this morning. Usually it’s a bit more difficult to spot the whales between the white caps of the waves, but of course our crew is experienced and we were…

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Feeding party in midsummer

The 21st of July is supposed to be the astronomical beginning of summer. But it didn’t really feel like summer this morning. The sky was overcast and it was quite rainy. However, our passengers wee wrapped in our warm overalls and raincoats and of course the wildlife doesn’t care about the weather, so everybody was…

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This is not a zoo! (?)

Today the sea was very calm and almost as flat as a mirror – best conditions for us to head out into the bay to search for some wildlife. In the middle of the bay we spotted a Humpback whale. But this individual took very long dives, so we decided to head a bit further north…

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A royal visit

  Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden visited North Sailing and Restaurant Gamli Baukur earlier today along with her husband Prince Daniel, the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and the First Lady, Dorrit Moussaieff. The Crown Princess is in Iceland for two days on an official visit and visiting North Sailing and Gamli Baukur was…

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Every day is special!

The summer seems to take a break during these days – today the sky was overcast and our passengers were happy about our cosy overalls, which kept them warm when we were heading out into Skjálfandi Bay. However, the sea was very calm and visibility was good. In the morning we encountered a Humpback whale…

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Four species and an old friend

Once again we had a very successful whale watching day! We encountered four different species: Close to the mountains a big feeding party was going on. Several Minke whales surfaced all around us, surrounded by hundreds of birds picking up the leftovers from the whales. In the same area a few Harbor porpoises popped up.…

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Plenty of whales in the bay

As we headed to the bay to day for the 13:30 trip we set the course towards the western part of the bay. Earlier we had seen Minke whales, Humpback whales and White beaked dolphins there. We had not been sailing for long as our captain Hrólfur told me that he had spotted a minke…

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Blue whaleparty in the bay

Today as I headed to the bay together with captain Hreiðar we decided to set the course towards north west. After about an half hour sailing we spotted a really big spout in the distance. As we got closer we noticed that there was not only one whale, there were three Blue whales side by…

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Blue whales in the bay.

This morning as we headed to the bay we did not know what to expect. On our boat Garðar we set course towards the mountains in the western part of the bay. As we arrived there we noticed the big amount of birds flying there. Soon we also noticed at least three Minke whales there.…

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Minkes and dolphins in the fog!

We had just sailed out of the harbor and into a massive fog when we saw a big group of white beaked dolphins! They were swimming fast and were very close to the land so we kept our distance and sailed along with them for 10-15 minutes! They light was mysterious because of the mixture…

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A perfect day!

At 10am this morning we sailed out into Skjálfandi bay and the weather was perfect, the sea was completely flat and it was half clouded. It didn’t take more than 15 minutes before we spotted a Minke whale. It was very calm and we got quite close to it several times. Then we headed in…

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A very hungry humpback whale….

The foggy conditions from yesterday had cleared up this morning and the conditions were almost perfect for whale watching: Good visibility and the sea was very flat as well. We left the harbour at 10:00 onboard “Náttfari” and set the course in the direction of puffin island Lundey. Just south-west of Lundey all of a…

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A breaching humpback in the fog!

It has been very foggy today in Skjálfandi Bay, but despite the fog, the whale watching has been fantastic! On our tour at 10:00 we encountered three different humpback whales (one of them lob-tailing a few times) and a small group of white-beaked dolphins close to Lundey, the puffin island.   Also on the next…

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Humpbacks, Minkes and a Blue Whale!

We have had a fantastic whale watching day here in Skjálfandi Bay today: The weather was very nice, the sea really flat and we encountered several species of big baleen whales during the day:   During the tours at morning and early afternoon, there was a big feeding party going on in the north-western party…

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