The last couple of weeks we have always had a lot of humpback whales here in the bay, but the number of humpback whales that we saw today was once again incredible! We left the harbour at 10:00 onboard “Garðar” and we had already heard from our friends on “Náttfari” (North Sailing’s second biggest boat)…
DetailsWhen Garðar went out for the trip at half past one o´clock the weather was really beautiful; it was summer warmth in the air and the seaward wind was minimal. The conditions for whale watching don’t get much better than this in Skjálfandi bay! We set our course to the mountains (Creek mountains) in the…
DetailsEver since we had the bad weather few days ago the Dolphins have been coming more into the bay than before. And so we found some Dolphins on the 10 o’clock this morning, few Humpback Whales and a lonly Minke Whale. On top of that the weather is just unbelievable. Really relaxed and satisfying tour…
DetailsThe job of the whale watching guide is probably one of few jobs that you actually are more than eager to work on your days off! At least when the weather is perfect (like today) and the bay filled with whales (like today). And that’s what I did, and I absolutely loved it! We went…
DetailsThis morning it was a bit windy in Húsavík but out on sea it was actually calmer (usually it is the other way around). With a full boat we headed out and it wasn’t long until we found us the first set of humpback whales. They were logging (that means they were drifting like logs…
DetailsYesterday was a rather unusual day for North Sailing. Due to bad weather on monday and tuesday this week we unfortunately had to cancel some of our scheduled whale-watching tours. We felt sorry for our guests who had booked their tours for those two day and were so much looking forward to whale watching but…
DetailsIt was a calm Skjálfandi Bay that welcomed us this morning, after the stormy weather of yesterday. I actually thought it would be more wavy, but still, the sea was calm. And so was the first humpback we encountered! It had probably been asleep just few moments before we arrived, it looked actually very calm,…
DetailsToday the strong northern winds made us incapable of going whale watching. The wave buoy close to Grimsey Island showed 3.4 meters at the highest and the rain was pouring. Still we showed up for work, since captain Hrólfur had called us in for a safety training. We carefully went over the safety equipment on…
DetailsFollowing pictures were taken by captain Heimir Harðarson on schooner Haukur and Kjartan Pétur Sigurðsson, a passenger on m/s Garðar. Copyright: Heimir Harðarson Copyright: Heimir Harðarson Copyright: Heimir Harðarson Copyright: Heimir Harðarson Copyright: Heimir Harðarson Copyright: Kjartan Pétur Sigurðsson
DetailsOne of the things I love about being a whale watching guide, is the excitement and joy I still feel – in every single tour! If anything, it only gets better. I started working as a guide in 2001 and of course I am loaded with great memories of both great whale watching tours and…
DetailsToday I went out with captain Hrólfur and the rest of the crew on Náttfari for both 10:00 and the 13:30 tour. The bay was calm and about half an hour after leaving harbor we encountered our first humpback. As in the blog posts from the last days the humpbacks have been ruling the bay,…
DetailsI went out for the 10 o´clock trip on Skjálfandi bay in search for whales. After a short sailing we found a Minke whale. But we didn´t stay with it for a long time, because it was diving a lot. Later we found two Humback whales together, and other two a bit further away. In…
DetailsAt 10´clock we left Husavik harbour and headed west, direction of the beautiful mountains across the bay. Unfortunately they were shrouded in white fluffy clouds. After a short while we sighted a big blow ahead and when approaching we saw a big splash after which the front flipper became visible and the Humpback whale started…
DetailsTwo trips behind me now, the 10 o’clock and the 13:30. I had the priviledge to go along with Guide Sabrina and we handed the Microphone between us frequently. It turned out that she is an excellent Guide to say the least, her knowledge goes way beyond mine in so many ways and I did…
DetailsThe weather conditions were fantastic when we left the harbour this morning: The sun was shining (we had up to 21°C in Húsavík today), the sea was calm, and our crew was optimistic that it would be a good tour….and we were right! It started with a humpback whale that was spotted not far…
DetailsToday was great. In the 10 o’clock trip we had a very close encounter with 3 Humpback Whales. They were so close to land that we had a lot of time to spare and took the detour to the Puffin Island, something we usually don’t do in the 3 hours trips. The Sail Boats on the other…
DetailsIt was a bit windy this morning, as me and captain Hrólfur headed out on the Skjálfandi Bay, looking for whales. We managed to take a good look at a humpback whale, while seeing more blows in a distance. In the 13:30 tour, the bay literally came to live! How wonderful! There were birds feeding…
DetailsThe bay was busy this morning. We first met a sleepy Humpback whale which we left resting after having seen him, or her, surface a couple of times. After another 10 minute sail we saw some White-beaked dolphins, around 20 of them, adults and calves together. They were speeding and changing direction quite a bit…
DetailsBlue whales were seen on our trips from Ólafsfjörður. Northsailing’s boat Knörrinn is sailing out from Ólafsfjörður, a town close to Akureyri and Siglufjörður in North Iceland. It is not very common to see blue whales in that area this time of the whale wathcing season, so this just tells us that anything can happen!…
DetailsEven though it was a windy and wavy morning, the 10 o’clock trip was fun, nice people onboard, and the whale watching successful! I went out on our biggest boat Garðar this morning. The weather was clear sky but it had already started to blow up out on the bay. We went straight out…
DetailsApart from the usual suspects this was a great day for whale watching both in Skjálfandi bay (Húsavík) and Eyjafjörður (Ólafsfjörður). Northern bottlenosed whales were spotted in Skjálfandi bay and now two blue whales turned up just outside Ólafsfjörður and entertained 18 lucky passengers who had just been watching several humpback whales when the huge strokes from the…
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