Today 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…
DetailsWe‘ve now got more word on the Greenland expedition of Hildur. Crew member Gísli just sent us some pictures and told us a little bit about how the expedition has been going. Since we last heard from them they have reached Ittoqqortoormiit where, after getting instructions from the inhabitants, they dropped anchor. Remy one of…
DetailsWe just got word from Captain Heimir on the Greenland expedition of Hildur. They have after less than 48 hours sailing reached Scoresbysund on the east coast of Greenland. Scoresbysund is called Kangertittivaq in Greenlandic and is the longest fjord in the world stretching some 350 km from the Greenland Sea. On the way and…
DetailsToday the weather was pretty bad and the sea was really rough so going out I wasn‘t very optimistic. My pessimism was however unfounded as on both tours I went out on today we got a very good look at a minke whale. We kept to the east side of the bay where the sea…
DetailsYesterday we got a very pleasant visit from a small polar bear called Bjössi who is travelling around Iceland posing for pictures in many of the beautiful places you can find here. When he saw our boat Bjössi Sör he really wanted his picture taken with it and when he heard the story behind the…
DetailsNorth Sailings annual celebration was thrown the night of the 17th of August. As usual the destination was a surprise so the employees were herded onto a bus and this time the bus went east. After a short drive we arrived at Sultir in Kelduhverfi where the celebration would be thrown in an old barn.…
DetailsThis morning the weather was quite bad and the sea was really rough. I went out on Garðar with captain Einar, Deckhands Ísak and Teresa and engineer Jóhann. The whales had been on the other side of the bay the last few days so we had to head all the way over there. The sea…
DetailsHildur is now being readied for an expedition to Greenland. She will leave tomorrow and is scheduled to return on the 28th or 29th of August. It will be manned by North Sailings schooner crews. This expedition is being undertaken to research the possibility of sailing with passengers to Greenland. As the pictures show preparations…
DetailsAs is stated on our website, www.whalewatchinghusavik.is, special tours are available upon request. One such special tour that we suggest is a trip to an island here in the bay, Flatey. The name literally means flat island, and its highest point is indeed only 22 meters above sea level. Yesterday, me, deckhand Teresa and Captain…
DetailsToday was really wet and the sea was rather rough. Some minke whales had been spotted before during the day all the way on the western side of the bay so we headed that way. Locating a whale took some time but once we located one we managed to hang on to it for a…
DetailsThis was a day for raincoats. It didn’t look like it when we started out this morning, being very sunny in the harbor, but it soon became apparent. It only got worse as the day progressed, but of course this in no way affected our success. In my second tour, especially, we were very lucky. …
DetailsIt was pouring rain this morning in Húsavík but the rain had stopped when we went out at 13:30 on North-sailings oldest whalewatching boat, Knörrinn.   We knew for a fact that some minke whales where in the western part of the bay, so that was our destination. We ran into couple of Harbour porpoises…
DetailsI went out on two tours on Garðar today. The former one was good, we drove to the western side of the bay, running into some white beaked dolphins on the way, and then taking a look at a few minke whales under the creeks and peaks of Víknafjöll. However, while the agenda for the…
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