It was sunny, but also quite cold this morning when we headed out into the bay at 10:00. We started sailing in a westerly direction, because there had been some minke whales and dolphins close to the Creek Mountains or Víknarfjöll, as they are called in Icelandic. But after about one hour, we all of a sudden…
DetailsAfter three days without sailing, here we are again doing our best to find the whales. The last three days were really windy (21m/s), rainy and cold, so we couldn‘t go out. Today the day was still cold, autumn has arrived but it was sunny and the waves were still high, but they couldn‘t stop…
DetailsToday the wind is blowing from NW with force of 15-20 m/sec and the rain is pooring down! All tours have therefore been cancelled today and the outlook for tomorrow is not good.
Today I was guiding both tours, at 10:00 and 13:30. The weather was nice, it was a sunny September day, but out in the bay the waves were pretty long and high ? probably heralding the storm that is forecasted for the next days. However, the first tour went pretty well. We saw two…
DetailsToday’s tours are a good example of how different each trip out into the bay is. We return from the 10:00 tour around 13:00 and then we head back out there half an hour later.. but a lot can change in those minutes. In the morning tour we came across a minke whale just…
DetailsNot all our news are good, some times we have to speak about some sad events. Two weeks ago a dead blue whale appeared close to the shore in the north of Iceland, and the sea left it stranded on the beach in Skagafjordur. The blue whale was already dead when it arrived to…
DetailsOn the 18th of August 2010 the schooner Hildur set sail from Húsavík, Iceland on it’s journey to the east coast of Greenland. Captain and expedition leader was Heimir Harðarson and most of the crew were employees of North-Sailing. The destination of the journey was Scoresby Sound which extends about 350 km into the coastline…
DetailsToday, there were two trips in the bay, as the days before. In both tours the passengers were very fortunate, because they could saw three Minke Whales, sometimes surfacing very close to the boat. The weather was also quite good, with wind blowing from the south, what means warm wind, but at the end of…
DetailsAlthough being the end of summer we are still lucky and the whales always manage to surprise us. The second tour today, at 13.30h, with Christian and Hrólfur as crew, didn‘t start off very well. in the morning tou they managed to find a Minke Whale, but this time it was a bit more difficult…
DetailsToday was a very windy day, but the wind was from the south, so it was warm, not as when it blows from the north. I went on the 13.30 trip, with Hrolfur and Halla Marín as crew. When the wind blows so strong is really difficult find the whales, so we spent a long…
DetailsI went on a tour today, at 13.30, on Bjössi Sör. Today starts the part of the year during what we have only two tours per day, but that doesn‘t mean that they have to be worse, in fact today we had a good tour.The day was windy but not very cold and it rained…
DetailsThe last days of August have been absolutely beautiful with still, warm days and minke whales that have been playing the main roll out on the bay together with dolphins and porpoises. The weather forecast for the next days is brilliant, southeasterly winds, fair with temperature from 12-22 deg. C. From September 1st to…
DetailsToday was a great day for whale watching, the sea was very flat and the weather was warm and sunny, a great way to start the first month of fall. A new guest in the bay made the daily tours more interesting and funny, a grey seal was seen near the mountains, the western…
DetailsToday I went out on three trips: At 10:00, 13:30 and 17:00. The weather was beautiful and we were successful on all three tours, but the first tour at 10:00 was one of the best whale watching tours I have ever had! It started with a mother dolphin with her calf, which we were able…
DetailsThe Minke Whales and the Dolphins have been absent from the bay today though some of them have been spotted far away. On the other hand, the Harbour Porpoises have been using the opportunity to show more of themselves and some of them were spotted jumping which is a very rare sight. One of the…
DetailsSchooner Hildur came to Húsavík today after a spectacular and adventurous 10 day journey to Greenland. The trip was a huge success and crew members were truly grateful to have had the oportunity to experience the extreme beauty of Scoresbysund and surroundings. Following are a few pictures taken during the trip and more detailed description…
DetailsSchooner Hildur will return to Húsavík harbour around noon today after an adventurous journey to Scoresbysund in Greenland that will not be forgotten by crew members. Furtherst north, Hildur sailed to 71st degree north latitude inside the great Scoresbysund fjord which is the longest fjord in the world. We are expecting a lot of…
DetailsIt was very busy this morning here in Húsavík, as the cruiseship Silver Cloud is paying us a visit. I went out together with captain Óli and assistant guide Oddvar on a special trip with 35 cruiseship passengers on our sailing schooner Haukur.The weather was beautiful, conditions were almost perfect and it did not take…
DetailsI was going out two trips this day with Captain Óli and our deckhand Teresa. On the first one it did not take us long to find a really curious and calm minke whale. He came close to the boat a couple of times, so that we could even see the white bands on the…
DetailsAfter having been unable to sail for three days because of bad weather we were of course very happy to be able to go out again. Though the wind had calmed somewhat it seemed still to be in a rather brooding mood. The sea was still a bit rough and the boat rocked a bit. …
DetailsThe weather has been bad these three days and we haven’t been able to go to sea. People have been busying themselves with work in the office or working on the boats in harbour. I have been working on news for the websites while others have been checking the overalls on the boats, cleaning the…
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