On today's whale watching trip the crew and passengers on Náttfari found a group of Orcas. It was a group of 6-8 animals, scattered around a small area and the animals were obviously feeding. They were pretty calm and everyone had a really nice look. White-beaked dolphins were also spotted on the tour. Orcas, also named Killer…
DetailsAfter a 4 days break from whale watching because of bad weather we had a brilliant tour today! The weather was perfect, calm and quite warm. We had only been out for about half an hour when we saw a group of white beaked dolphins that were playing around the boat. While we were looking…
DetailsThe weather today was nice, like it has been in the last days, but we only found a group of harbour porpoises on this tour. The minke whale from yesterday was nowhere to be seen. On the first tour I mentioned we had seen a few puffins but today it seemed like all the puffins have arrived into…
DetailsToday we spotted a minke whale after we had been sailing for almost three hours. It was really calm and sunny, the bay was just like mirror and it was easy to see the minke whale from quite far away. Before we found the minke whale we had also seen a lot of harbour porpoises,…
DetailsYesterday, Náttfari with 24 passengers sailed out on the first trip of the season. As can be expected in April it was a cold tour but the bay was beautiful and a small group of dolphins were spotted. Everyone got a good look and were really glad to see dolphins in their natural habitat. Quite a lot of birds were…
DetailsThe weather was beautiful when we sailed out on the first tour this sesaon, sunny and calm. Never before have we started whale watching this early in the year. There were not too many whales in the bay on this first tour but we spotted a small group of white-beaked dolphins and also a couple…
DetailsThis year, we have decided to pre-start the season in Skjálfandi bay on Sunday April 12th and Monday 13th at 13:30 (weather permitting). So far, summer hasn´t arrived after quite heavy snow storm at the end of March, but we are waiting anxiously for it to show up and bring our bay to life. If…
DetailsA few weeks ago we reported about the scientific project that Dr. Marianne Rasmussen and Edda Elísabet Magnúsdóttir Phd. student are working on in Skjálfandi bay. Two EAR's (Ecolocical Acoustic Recorder) have been in the bay the last months but Marianne and Edda retrieved both the EAR's last month and are now working on the…
DetailsAt the end of May, North Sailing will offer the first out of six scheduled 3 day sailings this summer. We are talking about a three day exciting adventure sailing on Haukur, Iceland's only schooner, which offers you a close encounter with nature, interesting historic sites, magnificent midnight sun, sail training, whale & bird watching &…
DetailsA model of the famous Canadian schooner Bluenose will shortly be a part of the North Sailing fleet. The The original Bluenose model is made by Árni Sör, brother of North Sailing's chieftain Bjössi Sör, better known as grandpa. The original Bluenose was designed by William Roué and launched in 1921 as a racing…
DetailsEven though no signs of the summer can be seen in Húsavik these days there’s just over a month until the first whale watching trip of the year is scheduled. North Sailing plans to kick off the season exceptionally early this year or on the 15th of april. Of course this will be subject to weather conditions…
DetailsLately schooner Haukur has been in the Akureyri shipyard for improvements of facilities. The main purpose is to increase bunkbeds so after the improvements Haukur will have the possibility to sleep 11 people. The cabin in front when the old bunkbeds had been torn down 7 new bunkbeds have been built, five in the cabin in front and two in the crew cabin. The passenger cabin…
DetailsAt the Husavik Research center Dr. Marianne Rasmussen and Ph.D student Edda Elísabet Magnúsdóttir have been working on a new reasearch on whales in Skjálfandi Bay. This reasearch is unique because they use technology that has never before been used in cold waters. This technology is called EAR (Ecological Acoustic Recorder) and has been developed…
DetailsIn reaction to Iceland´s Minister for Fisheries decision concerning commercial whaling, North Sailing and the Húsavík Whale Museum would like to state the following: "North Sailing and the Húsavík Whale Museum regret and criticize the decision of Iceland’s Minister for Fisheries and Agriculture to permit large scale whaling during the next five years a total…
DetailsNorth Sailing wishes everyone, far and near, a happy and successful new year! The following pictures were taken by Heimir Hardarson on the calm and beautiful new years eve in Húsavík.
DetailsIn summer 2008 we had a team visiting from Realnature.tv from Kiel, Germany and in cooperation with our guide, Martin Varga, they documented whale watching with North Sailing as well as other subjects. The dialogs are in German but the clips speak for themselves. 🙂 The result can be seen on North Sailing´s realnature.tv channel. North Sailing…
DetailsThis season has been a long one for North Sailing as we started with our scheduled tours on April 19th and today, october 14th, we‘re still taking passengers out to explore Skjálfandi Bay. On october 10th we sailed out with several brave tourists from 4 different countries: The Netherlands, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Russia. At this…
DetailsThe ordinary work was skipped this day and on a small bus the group ventured north over Tjörnes peninsular, visiting museum of Mánárbakki and then later the national park of Vatnajökull where a new visitors center was visited. The main goal of the tour was to have fun with friends and co-workers but visiting…
DetailsIt was a september super tour that was offered today by captain Hreiðar Olgeirsson and guide, Þórdís Jóhannesdóttir when they ventured out to Skjálfandi bay on m/b Bjössi Sör. The last few days have been tricky with some unsuccessful tours but others with minke whales, humpback whales and even bottlenosed whales. Today however they…
DetailsHeimir Harðarson and Sunna Guðmundsdóttir, landlady of Gamli Baukur, went to Vestnorden Travel Mart 2008. This was Sunna's first time at the travelmart that this time was held in Reykjavík. For Heimir though it was more of a reunion as he was now attending his 11th Vestnorden since his first in 1996. North Sailing thanks all…
DetailsTwo trips are scheduled every day throughout September. At 10:00 and 13:30. So far September has been rather difficult with some tours without a sighting. Other tours have though been successful and a total of 6 species have been spotted recently: Bottlenosed whales, Minke whales, humpback whales, Blue whales, porpoises and dolhins.
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