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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Schooner Hildur to Flensburg

Many good men have been working on the rebuilding of schooner Hildur this winter in Denmark and now it is seaworthy, even though no sails have been put up yet because of their late arrival from manufacturers in England and Norway.     The 14th of May Hildur sailed from Egernsund in Denmark over to…

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Sunday and monday

It got a little bit windy on sunday morning but it didn’t last long, the wind had calmed down in the afternoon. The weather fortunately didn’t affect our success with the whales. Humpback whales were seen on all our tours both days and usually minke whales and harbour porpoises as well. On the second tour…

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Three whale species

This was my first day at sea this year and I can’t say I was disappointed. It was pretty cold, that’s to expect in May, but the sun broke out in the afternoon which was really nice. On the earlier tour we saw three nice minke whales and lots and lots of puffins. We went…

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A nice first month of the season

The last days have been really successful in Skjálfandi Bay. Our boat Bjössi Sör has been going out twice a day with happy passengers aboard. The weather has been over all nice in the last week, slightly cold but nothing that warm clothing and hot chocolate can’t fix. 3-4 whale species have been spotted almost…

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Flensburg Rumregatta around the corner

Work proceeds on Schooner Hildur in Egernsund as the annual Rumregatta in Flensburg is just around the corner.   Masts, bowsprit, davits, booms and gaffs are in place but the sails, 250 sqm. of beautiful white cloth is still in the making in Norway.   That means Hildur won’t be sailing with sails during the Rumregatta weekend…

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Busy May day!

The day was busy for North Sailing as 3 boats were out at the same time having different assignments.   Bjössi Sör was out, twice actually, for the traditional whale watching tours with some 30 passengers.   Schooner Haukur went the first trip of the season picking up 14 passengers from Siglufjörður, 5 hours sailing away.…

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