Finally the sun has started shining again on our beautiful, small town and of course our wonderful bay! The tours today have been just excellent! The weather beautiful, the whales present, the passengers happy and of course the hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls delicious. We have seen harbor porpoises,white beaked dolphins, minke whales and humpback whales so far. Need I say…
DetailsToday was a good day despite of the waves that linger in the bay after yesterday’s rough weater. We saw humback whales, minke whales and white beaked dolhpins. We saw at least three humpback whales and they seemed to be in a good mood today, and one even splashed with it’s fluke a little for…
DetailsDespite the bad weather conditions we decided to give it a try and sail out at 10:00, as there have been whales very close to Húsavík the last couple of days. Our plan worked out and we found a minke whale just a few minutes after we had left the harbour. This minke whale unfortunately…
DetailsToday we sailed out in fairly good weather, although it was very cold, but towards the end of the first tour it started snowing, and it didn’t stop! The whales didn’t mind the snow, and showed us how they still are busy feeding. In the first tour today we saw humpback whales, minke whales and…
DetailsThe weather gods were not on our side today as it was quite cold and windy today when we went out onboard “Bjössi Sör” this morning. But that didn’t stop the whales from giving us a great show! In the same area like yesterday (around the Fish Rock, close to the mountains) we encountered…
DetailsThe first North Sailing expedition this season was a successful “Ski to the Sea” trip in April but last week the first “Edge of the arctic” trip was done last week. It was a wonderful group from Bangalore, India that joined captain Heimir and his crew on schooner Hildur for a two day adventure at…
DetailsIt has been quite foggy and it was also raining a bit today in Skjálfandi Bay. But of course that didn’t stop the whales from being active. This morning we crossed the bay and in the same area like yesterday (close to the Fish Rock) we encountered a lot of birdlife (also a surprisingly big…
DetailsToday has been just another very nice whale watching day here in Skjálfandi Bay and we enjoyed two trips in very calm sea conditions with plenty of wildlife. The morning tour started with two humpback whales that were swimming side by side just a few hundred metres from the Húsavík lighthouse. After some nice looks…
DetailsToday we spotted three whale species; humpback whales, minke whales and harbour porpoises. We also spotted many birds, like gannet, artic skua, artic tern, a lot of puffins and fulmars. In the 10 o’clock tour a minke whale came up next to the boat rolling around, showing it’s belly. It was also very curious and…
DetailsToday was an absolutely beautiful day to go wale watching. We spotted four humpback whales, four minke whales and a group of harbour porpoises. They are still very busy feeding, but still, they are so calm around us. They clearly do not mind us looking at them at all, and came so close to us we could…
DetailsYesterday was a great day for whale watching here in the bay, and today was quite similar: We headed straight west towards the mountains and as we came closer, there were again hundreds of seabirds (mainly kittiwakes and fulmars) circling around at the surface…..and in between them we spotted at least three different minke whales.…
DetailsThis morning we were joined by a group of school kids from the local school here in Húsavík and they definitely chose the right day to go out with us: It has been a wonderful whale watching day here in Skjálfandi Bay! The sea was really calm and during the morning tour we encountered four…
DetailsBoth our 10:00 and our 13:30 tour have been very similar today: We went out in beautiful weather conditions and it didn’t take long until we came across two humpback whales, feeding just south of the puffin island Lundey. They were both very busy feeding and obviously very hungry…..which is understandable, as some whales have…
DetailsDue to bad weather conditions we had to cancel today’s whale watching tours.
The weather gods were not really on our side and as it was quite windy today, we decided to search along the eastern side of the bay, giving us a bit more shelter from the land. This decision paid off pretty soon! After sailing for about 30 minutes, we spotted the blow from a humpback…
DetailsJust a few minutes after we had left the harbour, we saw some black dorsal fins in the distance and as we got closer we were surrounded by group of white-beaked dolphins….quite a good start for our tour. After a while, we sailed further west and as we got closer to the fish rock (“Skerið”),…
DetailsToday was just a fantastic day for whale watching in Skjálfandi Bay: The sea was almost as flat as a mirror and the bay was full of life. On the morning tour we encountered a humpback whale just about 20-30 minutes after we had left Húsavík harbour, a bit south of Lundey, the puffin island.…
DetailsWe had two very nice whale watching tours today with fantastic whale encounters:On the morning tour we found the two humpback whales again that have been around the last couple of days (usually quite close to the mountains in the western part of the bay). In the afternoon we found three different humpback whales.…
DetailsWe still have winter weather here in Húsavík and there was quite a lot of snow at the harbour this morning. When leaving the harbour, we set the course directly towards the area where the minke and humpback whales had been yesterday. As we got closer to that area, we spotted a minke whale and…
DetailsIt is always exciting to go out again after a storm or a period of bad weather. We had cancelled our tours the last two days due to bad weather so we were excited to go out again this morning. As we left the harbour we set the course towards the mountains and after having…
DetailsDue to bad weather conditions we had to cancel today’s whale watching tours.
