Working in Garðar in the shipyard

There has been a great progress in the shipyard these last weeks. It won’t be long now until Garðar will be ready to sail out with excited passengers on board and it looks like it will be a really beautiful boat. The following pictures were taken in the last days.   Painting in the nice…

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The opening of Café Skuld

Café Skuld opened again in late May and will be open until the end of summer like last few years. The first weeks have been truly great, the sun shining almost every day which makes Café Skuld the best place in town to sit down with a cup of coffe or a glass of beer,…

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A curious minke whale

In the beginning it was a bit difficult day, the whales seemed to have gone out of the bay when the first boats went out. Slowly though both the weather got better and the number of whales increased. When I went out at 17:00 it was absolutely brilliant. I didn’t see any blue whale though…

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Foggy day but still, four species.

Unfortunately the weather had changed a bit today and it was quite foggy the whole day. We didn’t find any blue whales today, hard to say if it was because they have gone or because we couldn’t spot them in the fog. But that doesn’t mean that we were out of luck today. The first…

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And more blue whales!

These last two days have been simply amazing. A completely clear sky, calm wind and almost everywhere you look you see blows from the blue whale. We’ve been trying to keep count of how many blue whales there have been, at least seven on one tour but an avarage of three to four on each…

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Blue whales spotted again!

  The blue whales that we found a few days ago didn’t stop for long but yesterday our crew on Bjössi Sör spotted TWO BLUE WHALES again! This is very good news and gives us great hopes that we’ll be having more blue whales coming in in the next days.   It’s therefore looking pretty…

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A nice calm day – 3 species

A big day in Iceland today, election day and Eurovision. But for us it doesn’t matter which day it is, the whales neither vote nor sing in Eurovision. The both tours today were quite similar. There was a humpback whale in the middle of the bay, some porpoises all around and a minke whale in…

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Rehearsing Let's talk local – Húsavík

The premiere of a new comedy show, called Let’s talk local, will be next Tuesday, the 1st of June at 15:00 in restaurant Gamli Baukur. It tells the story of two vikings, Garðar and Náttfari, who were the first people we know of to set foot in Húsavík. On their way they run into various…

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Two blue whales in the bay!

Crew and passengers on board Náttfari went out at 10:00 like usual but to their surprise they found two blue whales, a mother with a calf, in the middle of the bay!   This is exceptionally early to see a blue whale but in the last years they have been spotted in the first week…

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An amazing day!

It was raining this morning when I got to work and looking over the bay I didn´t feel excited for today´s tours. We went out on Náttfari at 10 am, captain Hrólfur, Tomasz (our engineer), myself and some 68 passengers. The sea was rough and it was foggy, we couldn´t even see the mountains ahead…

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