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Whale Watchin Iceland 16th of May
The sea was a little rough when we started in the morning, but this didn' t stop our guests to show up, fortunately you could say. We sailed close to the shore until Hvalfjörður and almost Akranes until we turned to Faxaflói to let us be surprised by whatever could happen...
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Whale Watchin Iceland 15th of May
Awesome trip :) We went out of Reykjavik harbour into pretty nice conditions, the sea was calm and it was pretty cloudy. We visited Akurey, the puffin island and found an abundance of them both on the island and sitting around on the open sea. We sailed further and some harbour porpoises caught our attention...
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Whale Watchin Iceland 12th of May
Beautiful Sunday weather sunshine all above the bay and many whales ;) The summer has arrived even there is last snow covering the top of the mountains...
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Whale Watchin Iceland 11th of May
The weather was quite spectacular this morning. Pretty gray but the sea was absolutely smooth. It looked just like a mirror. We are always happy about calm sea because it makes it much easier to spot the whales and get a good look...
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Whale Watchin Iceland 10th of May
We set up our boat, our captain boiling fresh cafe and sailed into the drizzle rain. The sea was covered by a heavy cloud cover which is perfect for whale spotting cause of the bright reflection above the sea. We sailed north west, like always to the feeding grounds, but we had to search for a bit until we spotted our first minke whale..
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Whale Watchin Iceland 8th of May
Nice sunny day in Reykjavik and a calm sea in Faxafloi :) these are the best conditions to go out Whale Watching. We started our trip at Akurey, one of our Puffin Islands in front of the coast of Reykjavik...
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Whale Watchin Iceland 7th of May
We started our trip in rather mixed weather. Sunshine and rain took turns but the there was hardly any wind and the sea was calm. Our first stop was at the puffins and there were plenty of them about...
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Whale Watchin Iceland 5th of May
We sailed with beautiful weather, sunshine all over and this tour was one success. We spotted all together 3 minke whales, but differently then yesterday we had the minke whale incredibly close to our boat, several times surfacing only 10 meters away...
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Whale Watching Iceland 8:55
We started our day with rain showers which means spring time in Iceland ;) The sea remained silent by the harbour but once we sailed further there was some movement, but just fine to have a beautiful morning sail into the bay were we spotted withe beaked dolphins which came close to our boat ~ but they didn't stay for to long time and we saw harbour porpoises all the time in this tour close to our boat, we saw there body's pretty well once they came at the distance that close which is not often happening and we spotted 4 minke whales, but further out. The number is good ~ but we had to wait for some time to see them surfacing again, they spent lots of time under the water, but a great tour cause we saw whales all the time
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Whale Watching Iceland 3th May 12:55
We started our tour to puffin island were we saw many of this beautiful birds gathering above and some flying out to catch fish ~ afterwards we sailed towards the same area were fond the minke whales this morning, it took us some while but we spotted two minke whales, one very close to our boat which was great. There we also saw harbour porpoises and this time we got a really good picture of them, once they came incredible close as well. On the way back it started up raining and bit windy as well, but we hang out inside our coffeehouse and had a good time. Nice tour ;)
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Whale watching Iceland 3th May 8:55
The weather to day was fine which means reasonable nice, when we left the harbor we had rain and cold wind calming later once we hit the feeding grounds. We had many kids on this tour which game with an lively atmosphere and everyone made the captains course ~ best directions to find the whales ;) We spotted 3 minke whales and several harbour porpoises and one time a mink whale surfaced only 20 meters away from our boat which was fantastic, especially for our small guests ;) We visited puffin island and it was packed, amassing to see many puffins back that early of the season, come and see your self ~ there so many of them it is amassing !
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Whale Watching Iceland May 2nd
Unfortunately we have to cancel the tour at 13.55 (it was re-scheduled from 12.55) today due to bad weather conditions.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 1st
Tour at 08.55 Also today the icy northern wind was blowing in Reykjavik and especially in Faxafloi Bay, our Whale Watching area. Today we stared our Puffin Watching :) so we stopped at our Puffin Island "Akurey" where we saw a lot of...
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Whale Watching Iceland April 30th
08:55 Tour - So we went out into the icy northern winds to search for whales all over Faxaflói. Unfortunately, this wasnt crowned by success to start with, the animals visible were Gannets, Northern Fulmars and some Puffins. On the way back though, we came across a big pod of dolphins. Loads of animals, really active, wonderful to watch. Some of those white-beaked dolphins were so close to the boat, that you....
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Whale Watching Iceland April 29th 08:55
Icy cold wind in Reykjavik today but the sun is shining. We soon spotted some Harbor Porpoises who only surfaced twice and left us immediately so we kept on sailing. We saw a lot of Gannets hunting, that is mostly a good sign that there are whales around as well and right we were :) All of a sudden a Minke Whale appeared and surfaced a couple of times before this animal decided to stay under water for some time. This animal was obviously not alone because it did not take long to find another one. Only about 20m next to our boat we heard the Minke Whale breathing :) incredible noise. Everyone was very happy to see and hear the Minke Whales. On this trip we saw about 3-4 different Minke Whales and some a pod of Harbor Porpoise showed up again, swimming along with the boat. One of the highlight of this trip was the appearance of two Minke Whales of 15m in front of our vessel. We are looking forward to going out again :)
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Whale Watching Iceland April 29th 12:55
The wind had calm down a bit on our second trip for today. We sailed to the area in which we found the Minke Whales and Harbour Porpoises this morning but it turned out to be a bit more difficult than earlier. One Harbour Porpoise joined us, surfacing quite often in front of our boat before he decided to leave us. We encountered 2 Minke Whales who were rather shy and most likely busy feeding so they stayed under water for a long time. We kept on sailing and found one Minke Whale who was in a better mood and surfaced a few times before we had to go back to Reykjavik.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 27th 08:55
later to day we expecting big winds sweeping our bay and so we packed and boiled fresh captains cafe and hasted into the feeding groud ~ we were lucky with the weather still and just had some waves swinging us up and down which was as we call it kinda adventures, but when we changed our distance having the wind in our back the sea was much more calm and also the sky brightened up, which was incredibly beautiful !! When the surface is in a light colour it is easy to sport the black back of the whale for example and this gave us hope since we been searching for some while this morning. Actually I was wondering now writing this diary, yes we saw a whale, but were was it ;) when .. right, we found the minke whale from yesterdays tour which is hanging out close to ashore, the distance to our boat remained prox 40 to 50 meter and it wasn't for a long time, but several perfect moments when it surfaced. This was the whale and the only one in this tour and we saw many brirds again , mostly Gannets plunging into the ocean hunting for fish, this birds are spectacular high speed divers. The sea took turns just as we were ready to anger back home, good timing ~
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Whale Watching Iceland April 26th 12:55
The afternoon we got ready for the tour and headed towards the same areas were we found the whales this morning and just when we sailed a bit we spotted a group of harbour porpoises and also had a sight of the minke whale which is hanging out much closer to the harbour, but this individual seamed once again very engaged there under the water and we sailed further were found 2 minke whales feeding close to on another and not moving as fast like this morning. We stayed with them for a long time and then headed back, also weather started to change a bit into the windy thing thing ;) Very nice tour, so we have been lucky to day.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 26th 08:55
Our morning tour wend really well, since the weather was nice to sail out and enjoy the time out there. We were incredibly lucky in this tour, cause not sailing very far we spotted our first minke whale which we spent some time with and then we decided to go further out were we spotted a small group of withe beaked dolphin, we had them just for a small while near our boat, cause they seamed to be occupied some else place and didn't stay with us long, but we had a good moment once they came close to the boat and we saw them pretty well. Then we sailed a bit west and there we spotted 3 more minke whales, they all were feeding and staying for long under the water, longer as we wished;) But still, once they surfaced we've gotten a nice sight on them. We saw puffins in this tour, not many but here and there one or two on there homecoming way. The sea was filled with birds, we saw Guillemots, Black backed Gulls, Fulmars, Cormorants, Puffins, Gannets and many Eider Ducks ~ a fantastic tour.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 25th 12:55
We went close to land and took a nice trip along the coast to Hvalfjörður and Akranes because of the bumpy sea. Than we continued out to the open sea to Faxafloi and got some hail to greet us on the official first day of summer. Fortunately, the sun came out later, but no whales. We kept on searching and searching, but the wildlife was hiding away for today. We got some hope, when we saw Nothern Fulmars hunting, but no manmals came up for taking a breath of the crisp air. So complementary tickets for everybody else it is. Still a very nice trip out to the open sea with a good view of the capital area, Akrafjall and Reykjanes peninsula.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 25th 08:55
Summertime ;) Today we are celebrating the first day of summer here in Iceland and yes the sun is shining but the wind is blowing...The sea was a bit rough but the landscapes which are surrounding our bay were very beautiful to look at, especially Esja, the local moutain of Reykjavik, was white...covered by snow. We sailed from Faxafloi Bay into the Whalesfjord but unfortunately we did not see any whales on this trip and that is why our guests got an extra ticket for free to join us again.Summertime ;) Today we are celebrating the first day of summer here in Iceland and yes the sun is shining but the wind is blowing...The sea was a bit rough but the landscapes which are surrounding our bay were very beautiful to look at, especially Esja, the local moutain of Reykjavik, was white...covered by snow. We sailed from Faxafloi Bay into the Whalesfjord but unfortunately we did not see any whales on this trip and that is why our guests got an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 24th 12:55
Who would like to built a snowman ;) That was possible this morning in Reykjavik... a lot of snow which was already gone at noon. We sailed out and our captain Jonas spotted a large group of Gannets hunting. They were throwing themselves from 30-40m into the water, catching fish...very impressive to see that. Having Gannets around is a good sign that there is lots of fish and that normally means that there are whales around as well. Right we were ;) soon we encountered a pod of Harbor Porpoises. They were sharing their food with the Gannets and all of a sudden we found a Minke Whale. It was amazing to see how all these animals were sharing their feeding ground. Our Minke Whale appeared a couple of times and some Harbor Porpoises joined us again while we were waiting for the Minke Whale to resurface. We spotted about 3-4 different Minke Whales but most of them were pretty busy feeding and preferred to stay under water for a while. Fortunately we saw them quite well and were able to observe their behavior. Great tour :) Tomorrow is our first official day of summer in Iceland so we really hope that there will be no snow.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 23rd 12:55
This tour we sailed a large area but we were not able to find our minke whales which we have seen so well this morning, we searched and looked and especially our brave guests made good sailors watching out for whales all the time. The weather changed into more wind, cold winds and so it was more difficult, but still we have seen many seabirds and all together it was a very cosy tour, gathering in our coffeehouse, sipping hot chocolate and looking out for whales, some where maybe ;) We gave all our brave sailors another ticket for free to joy us for a better whale watching tour !
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Whale Watching Iceland April 23rd 08:55
We had big waves from yesterdays storm, the sea haven't calmed as much, but still it was a lot of fun to sail above them, since the weather kept nice, a mix of rain showers, sunshine, drifting clouds and of course rainbows ~ we headed towards the feeding grounds and our first whale was a little single harbour porpoise appearing just in front of our boat, and then we spotted all together 3 minke whales and many small groups of porpoises. The minke whales came not as close cause they were feeding and the past days there wasn't as much fish here, but we got some nice moments and sigthings of this beautiful creatures. Lots of sea birds are back, and it is so great to see many gannets are back on sea ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland April 22nd 08:55
Due to a strom in the bay last night we had to cancel the tour this morning, but we have our hopes high, that the waves will calm down until noon.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 21st 12:55
Amazing weather :) Mount Esja covered by snow and the sun is shining in our bay. On this trip we saw the beautiful penisula of Snaefellsnes ending with the Snæfells-Glacier at the end of it. We soon encountered our Minke Whales from this morning again and also a lot of Harbor Porpoises. One time these two different Whale Species surfaced at the same time and it was incredible to see the size different. Perfect Whale Watching day :)
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Whale Watching Iceland April 21st 08:55
What a beautiful sunny day in Reykjavik :) The sea has calmed down and the sun was shining in Faxafloi Bay. It had snowed during the night therefore it was still a bit cold but everybody was well dressed and ready to see whales. We soon encountered a small pod of Harbor Porpoises who behaved a bit shyly, swimming away from us so we kept on sailing until we spotted a Minke Whale. The spout was very visible and this animal surfaced twice before it decided to stay under water for quite a long time. Fortunately this animal was not alone, we have seen about 6 different Minke Whales on this trip some of them far away and one individual just about 30m in front of our boat. While we were waiting for the Minke Whales to resurface, we enjoyed the company of our little friends the Harbor Porpoises who were surfacing constantly. Nice trip and we are looking forward to going out again )
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Whale Watching Iceland April 20th 12:55
The sea, in front of the coast of Reykjavik, was rather rough therefore we decided to go out from Hafnarfjörður, which is another city in the capital area. Our guests got on the bus driving to our Whale Watching Boat "Andrea". The weather was changing constantly...sunshine, snow, wind and rain so we experienced all of the four season on this tour. We were sailing and sailing, looking for whales but unfortunately they did not show up today. That is why our passengers got an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 19th 10:00
The weather in Reykjavík is very windy and the sea is rough so we only went on one tour at 10:00 today. You can read more about it at: Whalewatchingreykjavík.com The 08:55 tour tomorrow has been cancelled due to weather, but the 12:55 tour is still on:)
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Whale Watching Iceland April 18th 08:55
By now we have sunshine and we are sailing with the wind in the back which is much better then sailing against like this morning ;) It was a bit cold and we had do dress up warmly, always this cold winds, well. Well lets call it the north west north route to the perfect moment. We sailed west ~ 40 mins and there we spotted our first minke whale, since the surface is very dark to day covert by tinny north east waves it was perfect to just focus at the blow of the whales to locate them. The first minke was not all in the mood to show more of itselfs ~ we gave it some time, but then we headed west were was nothing and the north again further out, well two beautiful minke whales, cause they showed much of themselves, one surfacing very close to our boat, our tourist were so happy and let us know ~ searching all the time and then having one minke incredibly on the end of our tour, very exciting !
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Whale Watching Iceland April 18th 12:55
The second tour was not as perfect as our morning tour, the minke whales we have spotted strangely remained under the water and didn't want to show much of themselves, mmm ~ we really tried all we could, sailing as far as possible and always we were lucky to have spotted a new individual and a few other minks, but just a bit of all of them ;) By the end of our tour we heard of some withe beaked dolphins close by and when we arrived there we just saw a bit of a bit, one dolphin, one moment, one second. What happened? ~ But the weather stayed with us all the time, the sunshine made the cold wind a bit niceer to stay outside on the upper deck while we sailed out and also now back home. Last night we had some snow covering the surrounded mountains here in our bay ~ guess that's the winter way saying good bye, cause also to day we spotted one Puffin on its journey, flattering home ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland April 17th 12:55
So while we enjoyed our lunchy dinner time weather changed abit into rain and grey clouds and it was so cold out there, well a bit. The captain from our speeding yacht Rosin told us that he have seen the back of a Humpback whale and so we sailed trough the wavy movement and rainy clouds, little april snow flocks until we reached the final spot ~ 64* 10 N ; 22* 13 W and there we stopped, exactly there to find the big whale. We saw birds mostly Gannets hunting for there fish which was really exciting and also some of the clouds moved for some seconds and the color of the sea surface brighten which is perfect, also better to detect a whales black back closely or further out. So we were just hanging out and looking around, sipping hot drinks when a big whale surfaced incredibly close to our boat, talking 5 meters, gosch and the tempo of the whales appearance came as a big surprise, no it wasn't the Humpback whale we expected ~ but a beautiful minke whale and in fact we discover to have two of them hanging out all the time besides our boat. After staying for some while it became so cold and also the whales kept on surfacing less then before, so we packed our things and sailed trough the last snow flocks back home. It is so cosy to be inside the coffeehouse and meeting people from all around the world, sipping hot chocolate and sailing back home ~ So while we enjoyed our lunchy dinner time weather changed abit into rain and grey clouds and it was so cold out there, well a bit. The captain from our speeding yacht Rosin told us that he have seen the back of a Humpback whale and so we sailed trough the wavy movement and rainy clouds, little april snow flocks until we reached the final spot ~ 64* 10 N ; 22* 13 W and there we stopped, exactly there to find the big whale. We saw birds mostly Gannets hunting for there fish which was really exciting and also some of the clouds moved for some seconds and the color of the sea surface brighten which is perfect, also better to detect a whales black back closely or further out. So we were just hanging out and looking around, sipping hot drinks when a big whale surfaced incredibly close to our boat, talking 5 meters, gosch and the tempo of the whales appearance came as a big surprise, no it wasn't the Humpback whale we expected ~ but a beautiful minke whale and in fact we discover to have two of them hanging out all the time besides our boat. After staying for some while it became so cold and also the whales kept on surfacing less then before, so we packed our things and sailed trough the last snow flocks back home. It is so cosy to be inside the coffeehouse and meeting people from all around the world, sipping hot chocolate and sailing back home ~
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Whale Watching Iceland April 17th 08:55
What a beautiful sunny day to sail out for the whales ~ the north wind came a bit cold but we saw two minke whales and one of them came at a only 5 meters distance close to our boat, which was thrilling. Both of the minke whales moved fast and this is when they are feeding ( hunting ;), it was incredibly how shortly in time they had gain distance, but it was good cause they kept surfacing all the time. In the between we spotted a small group of harbour porpoises, actually they were there all the time and we have gotten perfect pictures of them. Good tour and we saw 2 puffins, very cute ~ and lots of Gannets, they were hunting very close in front of our boat for fish, what a nice tour !
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Whale Watching Iceland April 16th 08:55
This Morning we sailed out for 2 Whale watching tours with our fast speeding boat Rósin. That is icelandic and stands for: The ROSE! Find out more about her on www.specialtours.is
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Whale Watching Iceland April 16th 12:55
WOW, what a great Whale Watching day :) Sunshine in the Capital Area and calm sea in Faxafloi Bay, these are the best conditions to go out Whale Watching.Our guests were very motivated to help us finding the whales today and it did not take long until we spotted our first Harbor Porpoise. This animal did behave a bit shyly so we kept on sailing and encountered a Minke Whale. We soon realized that our Minke Whale was not alone and found lot of his friends all around. It was amazing, everyone was pointing in all kinds of directions. Some of the Minke Whales just surfaced about 20m next to the boat and whenever they did that we heard the animal breathing. An incredible noise causing goosebumps every single time. All of a sudden the little Harbor Porpoises showed up again, appearing at the same time as the Minke Whale so we really saw the size difference (Harbor Porpoise 2m max. Minke Whale 10m max.) We spotted about 4- 6 different Minke Whales and a pod of Harbor Porpoises on this tour.We really hope that the weather and the whales will stay this way :)
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Whale Watching Iceland April 15th 08:55
Unfortunally we hat to cancel the tour due to the weather conditions in the bay.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 15th 12:55
The sun was shining and it was nice to see the Islands in Kollafjörður and Mount Esja which is still covered by snow. There was a bit of wind in our Whale Watching area but most of our guests were sitting outside on our topdeck to enjoy the view and to look out for whales. We sailed quite far and all around until we spotted some spouts but unfortunately we had never seen the animal. That is why our guests got an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 14th 12:55
Faxaflói bay was too windy for going out today so unfortunately we had to cancel our tours. The weather forecast looks better for tomorrow, so hopefully the winds will have calmed town and we´ll be able to go Whale watching then.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 13th 12:55
The weather calmed surprisingly and we were able to have a good tour weather wise and also we've seen many minke whales ~ first we thought it might be difficult, always an impression that coms with the cold of the north wind ;) But see there it didn't take us to long time and we spotted harbour porpoises and and besides them a minke whale, which swam incredibly fast, most likely extreme feeding time for this individual ;) Well, we lost this minke, but sailing a different area we detected two more minke whales and they were more relaxed, which gave us a good time on the end. We saw them surfacing pretty close and also there we had another small group of harbour porpoises. We stayed a bit longer by this minke whales as our time had to give, but it was so nice to watch those two minke whales, together with some sunshine which have gotten stronger on our sail back and made our day just beautifully perfect ~
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Whale Watching Iceland April 12th 12:55
To day we sailed with our boat Rosin ~ the speeding queen of our big various boats collection ;) We decided to sail from Grindavík cause for better weather conditions there, a beautiful small fishing town on the south coast of the Reykjanes peninsula. Life in Grindavík has to a large extent evolved around fishing since the time of its settlement and imagine your are sailing from a small town Icelandic harbour, your really get the feeling of being on sea in just a bit once you out. We passed the little lighthouse which is just located by the harbour and first it was a bit sticky into our faces, yes and cold ~ sailing against the wind, which soon changed when our captain took a small curve to the left where we saw many different seabirds, but mostly Gannet's ~ large white seabirds with yellow heads which are long, pointed wings and long bills, once they are hunting for fish it is incredibly to watch them, they are able to achieve speeds of 100 km/h as they strike the water, we haven't seen them that often lately, means the summer is just a few moments away. Whales, mmm no whales in this tour, but still a perfect tour somehow and we offered all our brave sailors a complementary ticket to come with us again for a "better" whale watching tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland April 8th 12:55
We sailed the same areas and see there we found tow beautiful minke whales, they where feeding and not as interested into our boat but it was really nice we had them for some while around the boat. One of the minks came really close for a moment, it was terrific. We also saw small groups of harbour porpoises traveling by and some swam incredibly close and we saw there grey colors and splashes they made. A beautiful day we had out on sea and now we are sailing back home happy to have seen so many whales to day ~
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Whale Watching Iceland April 8th 08:55
We sailed into a beautiful morning weather ~ the surface as smooth as a mirror and sunshine all around. Out there we spotted 3 minke whales at a good feeding ground, they first kept distance and then some of them came close to our boat which was great.We also saw harbour porpoises in this tour, everywhere we saw them, some doing splashes which was cute. We are looking forward to the next tour this afternoon. Nice start into a new week ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland April 6th 12:55
Amazing Whale Watching day :) it was a bit windy in the bay but our guests just put on our overalls and joined the guide on the top deck. Everyone was very excited to see whales and the first species for today was an Harbor Porpoises surfacing a couple of times next to our boat. We kept on sailing because we knew that something bigger was waiting for us to arrive. The captain saw a spout far away and also on this trip we had to sail further out to find the beautiful Humpback Whales. We got closer and were surrounded by Norther Fulmars, Seagulls and even some Gannets before our magnificent Humpback Whale appeared. The first few times he surfaced, went down for some deeper dives and showed his tail once. All of a sudden he got very active and started to slap with his tail :) Exciting, exciting, everyone was yelling WOW...the water was splashing around and it seemed that he could not get enough of it. Sometimes they would use that as a hunting method to knock out fish but we think this animal was just very happy to see us ;) it looked a bit like waving. After that he had to get a rest and stayed a bit longer under water. Meanwhile a little pod of Harbor Porpoises about 10 animals visited us again. They surfaced quite often and approached us. So cute, our little marine mammals but after a couple of minutes they had left us. Our last highlight was the Humpback Whale again, surfacing close to our boat and showing his tail, right before we had to back to Reykjavik. Perfect timing and incredible trip.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 4th 12:55
We headed out in beautiful weather today - sea was smooth as glass! In weather like this we can see Snæfellsglacier in the west and beautiful moutains and nature all around:) We met up with a pod of very lively White-Beaked Dolpins - they were jumping and playing around, swimming alongside the boat which they love to do, and showing all kinds of tricks. We also met few Harbour Porpoises on the way as well as couple of shy Minke Whales, they did not come too close this time, but was nice to see them, and there are more and more coming closer to us as the summer gets closer:o) A very nice Whale Watching day and attached is the picture Friðþjófur Helgason photographer got of the White-Beaked Dolphins, quite amazing!
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Whale Watching Iceland April 5th 08:55
Wonderful morning in Reykjavik not that cold and some sunshine, the summer is coming to Iceland :) This morning we encountered a lovely trio of White Beaked Dolphins travelling with a little one. They were very protective with the small one who always travelled between them. They surfaced a few times before we decided to leave them. We kept on sailing to find something else and that did not take long :) Soon, one Harbor Porpoise joined us but they are known to be rather shy and after surfacing twice he left us. All of a sudden we got great news from our other boat...they found a Humpback Whale, so we changed our direction and approached this wonderful animal. The spout was very visible and the animal was swimming calmly. We stayed with him for a while and got very excited when he finally showed his fluke. Unfortunately we were running out of time therefore we had to leave this amazing Humpback Whale. Wow, what a great Friday morning trip, 3 different species...I would say that was more than a success ;) and can not wait to sail out again.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 3rd 12:55
So today we had gorgeous weather ~ I am Caroline and i just guided my first tour and I was really thrilled to see a humpback whale. A tiny, beautiful one. It was wonderful to see the black and white fluke appearing and disappearing for about 15 minutes. Very nice of this young whale to greet me like this into this whale watching season. We saw some harbour porpoises, a lot of dolphins and a mink whale as well. But the humpback whale was steeling the show of all of them, even though the dolphins really tried in winning the cuteness-contest by jumping up and down and splashing close to the boat ~
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Whale Watching Iceland April 3rd 08:55
We still enjoy our first morning tours of this season, as we are not so many people this mornings are incredibly nice and personal adventures, especially to day we sailed above a mirror like surface and the sun is shining all day long ;) The first thing we spotted was a small group of harbour porpoises and they actually came unusually close to our boat, but of course after a few minits they left which is there common behavior. We sailed further, such a beautiful weather ~ sailing north west for some time, we spotted a group of withe beaked dolphins in this area, they stayed very close all the time, jumping and also we saw a mother and her calf which was very cute. We spotted a black back further away and this was a minke whale, but it never surfaced again and we run out of time and now we have to sail back towards Reykjavik here we see many dolphins swimming just close by. We are looking forward to some yummy lunch time back home, we are looking forward to our second tour to day ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland April 2nd 12:55
Sailing west we thought to find the withe beaked dolphins again from yesterdays tour and we were lucky, same adventure as jumping dolphins, all around the boat. Some stayed further our and some closer to our boat, we think there were about 50 to 60 dolphins we saw all the time there, we had to sail back home cause time was done and again we sailed very far to day. Actually wonderful weather conditions to sail out we had as well ~ soft rain and silent weather.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 1st 08:55
Monday morning ~ sailing north west, 16 miles which is far but we knew from yesterdays tour we had to sail further this days to find the whales. our first morning tour for this season, and of course our crew needed an extra strong cafe, freshly boiled by the captain himself and then we were ready for the still coldly morning. The weather remains calm and the ocean looked just so beautiful in its morning colours ~ many birds were gathering by the feeding grounds which helped us to locate the area were we found a group of withe beaked dolphins. First we spotted them further out trough there big splashes and it just took us or them few moments and the dolphins were surrounding our boat, which was really cool to see them jumping and following our boat for some time. We are now on our sail back home and will be late just like past days, but well we sometimes have to sail far to find what we are looking for. The weather still keeps silent which is just magical to sail on ~
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Whale Watching Iceland march 31st 12:55
Wonderful tour finally the big Easter whale have arrived ~ The first thing we noticed was the sunshine awaiting us when we sailed towards the feeding grounds, actually we were a bit worried first to not find anything, the wind by the harbour blowing into our neck but once we were out it calmed and we had a really calm sea. The first spot was harbour porpoises which we have not seen for some time, they came close to our boat, but also just for a moment ~ typical for this small whales, they are often frighten of boats, not this kinda tour we thought .. sailing further we spotted big splashes and our attention was taken by a big group of withe beaked dolphins which we saw everywhere, some of them doing there acrobatic performance, jumping and following our boat, not only following us it seamed cause we spotted this tremendous huge blow, 200 meter distance and it was Humpback whale we saw once we came closer, the dolphins surrounding our boat on a large area and in between the Humpback whale, the withe beaked dolphins kept on jumping closely and further away, the sun was shining and the Humpback surfacing several times showing its tail fluke all the time, swimming close to our boat and we saw the very long white colored flippers shining trough the surface ~ Our captain had to start our sail back home and we were just about to turn around when the humpback surfaced alongside, 10 meters distance to just show us its tail fluk one more time to say good bye ~
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Whale Watching Iceland march 30th 12:55
We sailed a further direction in to days tour, to make up yesterdays unlucky tour ~ so we sailed 18 mils, direction south west, very far, something we just do .. sometimes ;) Well and when we left the harbour we even had some sunshine and clouds were moving the cold winds in different direction which gave us a beautiful sail along the mountains surrounding the bay, last snow to see on the top, spring is just around the corner. We sailed and sailed and then we spotted a huge blow further away which belonged to a nice minke whale waiting, how wonderful is this. The minke whales are just arriving back in our bay and this one surfaced several times incredibly close to our boat, we saw its white band on one of the flippers shining trough the surface, but just a small moment, the dorsal fin was high and well to see, but suddenly it swam faster and we had to search for a longer time to find it, which was difficult and well the minke whale swam away, but we had a good time for about 30 min that the whale stayed with us, we are still lucky ;) Then we had to sail all the way back which took us more the one hour, gosh we were late, but we did find the big whale and that's all what we wished for ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland march 29th 12:55
We headed direction south searching for the big whale ~ we sailed a long way and searched many areas in our bay, there were many birds we saw in this tour which took our hopes to find the oceans cetaceans, but unfortunately we sailed the wrong areas ;( Everybody on our tour, our brave guests tried to help and looked out for the whales, but we just weren't lucky. The weather conditions weren't so perfectly as well, cold wind rising with driving rainy clouds which made us jump into our warm overalls and sipping free hot chocolate. When we just gave up we spotted a smaller group of withe beaked dolphins just in front of our boat, but as soon we saw them they swam away, what a whale watching day ;( Well, we stayed in this area waiting for the dolphins to surface again, but we could not locate them, most likely they were just on there way to a larger group some else place. We saw birds all the time close to our boat, such a Eider Ducks, Cormorants, Glaucous Gulls, Kittiwakes and Fulmars. We sailed back home, a bid sad, but this days can happen, so we handed all our guests a free ticket to sail out with us again for a better whale watching tour in coming days.
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Whale Watching Iceland March 28th 12:55
The weather changed for the better in today's tour, we had sunshine and a bit of rain, but warm temperatures just like spring. We sailed for some while and spotted some birds which gave us the idea that we mast have hit a good feeding ground and soon we spotted a small group of withe beaked dolphins. They seamed to be occupied on feeding but for some moments we've gotten them fairly close to our boat, but our attention was taken when we spotted two minke whales just 20 meters away, we stayed with them for some while and watched them surfacing several times, but soon they kept staying under the water and we had to sail back home , nice tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland March 27th 12:55
We searched a large area but to day we weren't able to find any whales, most likely cause of the Orcas we had seen in yesterdays tour, which can be dangers for other whales. The weather was kinda rainy, but still we made a good tour out of it. we handed all our brave guests a complementary ticket to come with us to a better whale watching tour in upcoming days and hope to see you soon ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland March 26th 12:55
Today‘s first rocking news from sea ~ right now we are with a big family gang of Orcas ( killer whales ) They hang out pretty close to shore, we didn't had to sail far when we spotted there large fins above the surface. The group of Orcas spread far and there are about 30 animals, some individuals incredible close to our boat which is giving us the change to see there white colored patches, light gray saddle colors and the snout.. We also looking at a mother and calf swimming alongside our boat ~ distance less then 20 meter away, so cute! One of the whales rolled around and we saw its belly and the underside of its tail fluke and another leaped out about free quarters of its body out the water leaving big splashes behind, freaking cool! The time is 14:35 and we are going to sail further ~ we think direction south, maybe we find the Humpbacks from last days again ... we sailed into a much calmer weather front, approaching sunshine and less clouds, the sea looked beautiful and further of the beaten track we spotted more Orcas from the same pack, they split to circulate as though this is normal for bigger groups. We had a fantastic moment, a small group of about 10 animals were traveling incredibly close to our boat, the animals swam side by side quite slow, underneath the sunshine gave a beautiful picture and some more of them swam behind and the other side of our boat, it was amassing and unfortunately we run out of time and had to start our sail away to anger back home ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland march 25th 12:55
This week started pretty well ~ Wonderful tour and the weather conditions are just amazing to sail out. Soon we spotted a blow and coming closer we had once again a Humpback whale which was feeding in the beginning, but than it changed into more entertaining behavior, showing its big tail fin and came closer and closer to our boat. Some of our guests were so lucky to almost touch it when the Humpi surfaced only les than 1 meter away, we were able to listen to the breathing sound, seeing the animal rolling above the surface and moving under the water incredibly close alongside our boat. We stayed with our big whale for a loge time and really got one of the best moments , but this tour had to offer more it seamed ~ we spotted a group of withe beaked dolphins further and when we sailed closer we saw as well there withe colored patches shining trough the surface, it was a small family group of feeding 15 to 20 animals, not as playfully to day, but we saw them fairly close. We were just to sail back home when our captain detected another big whale ~ a minke whale surfacing not far from our boat, we changed course towards the nice visitor and had a really good ending watching one of the first minke whale returning back home in our bay from there long winter journey ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland march 24nd 12:55
Incredibly week ~ The Humpbacks settling our bay and they are not about to leave ;) Now we have them since 2 weeks and it is just fantastic to have such magical tours almost every day. The weather was good, sunshine and no clouds, a bit cold but very nice people on our tour which gave our tour a warm atmosphere, lots of fun. We sailed a bit and then we spotted a blow further away, the usually thing ~ sailing towards and seeing the tail of a Humpback whale just going for a dive, showing us its beautiful tail several time to day. We stayed with this whale all the time and saw wonderful things, one time our big whale was breaching and then also head lunging, propelled itself out of the water, clearing the surface with about two third of its body. another perfect moment was when the humpi rolled on the surface, we saw the fins very well and it looked like an angel ;) We had a really good tour and the weather was perfect, when the wind calmed it became better and often we saw the whale surfacing only proxy 5 meters close to our boat, wow ! We are now sailing back home and many of us sipping there free hot drinks, some taking there first spring sunbathing and we are back home in just a bit ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland march 23nd 12:55
The Humpbacks are still there and we had another beautiful day on sea ~ we headed towards the same area we saw four of the Humpbacks yesterday, we had to sail against a strong wind which made it a bit difficult to hold away the cold, but once we came closer we had some sunshine rising between the clouds. Our captain saw a jumping whale further and then we knew we had the right course and another perfect tour to come with the Humpback whales. We saw one Humpback all the time keeping close to our boat and three others staying further out. We remained with the first Humpi, it came very close to the boat and we were able to see the top of the head and lower jaw unbelievable close, we listen to the breathing sound and we saw the side flippers shining trough the surface. There was another Humpi which was a bit smaller and this one sometimes raises its flippers from the water, showing its tail vertically above the surface, but then it was time to sail back home and were not able to check out the other Humpis further out, well we find them tomorrow then. What a wonderful tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland march 22nd 12:55
Wonderful days we have this week ~ also in todays tour we were able to find the Humpback whales and we had terrific moments. We heard from some fishing boot of the new location since they left yesterdays spot and we had to sail south west to find them again. The weather in our neck a bit colder then yesterday because of the wind, but the watersurface remained smooth. We sailed for about 20 minutes and once again our captain spotted the first Humpi, a blow of the cetacean which is an essential part of its breathing cycle, can always be seen well from further distance when the weather is clear like to day. Everyone very excited sprinting to the upper deck and then we spotted another Humpback just next to our boat logging just there, lying without forward movement on the surface of the wather which gave us the time to behold the side flippers shining trough the surface, wow ;) We sailed further and found two other Humpback whales, the one from yesterdays tour showing of ~ by dropping its head below the surface to suspend its tail above the water for quite a long time, it was amazing! Keeping this position several times, rolling around and showing the side flippers, we saw another Humpback whale twice breaching half way out the water which was just another fantastic moment. Wonderful tour, now we are on our way back home, again ~ passing our lighthouse, one turn right, on the left and we are back home ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland march 21st 12:55
Terrific tour, another good week full of surprises, Caribbean like weather conditions, sunshine all around, we didn't have to dress into warm overalls, just having a nice sunbath on the upper deck from the beginning to the end! ;) We sailed only about 15 minutes; sipping on our yummi hot chocolate when the captain called for us, the first Humpback whales only 50 meters to go, oh we had to hurry - we thought! .. the next thing we saw were two beautiful animals incredibly close to our boat, one was really in a playing mood rolling around, they stayed all the time close to us, keeping less distance then 5 meters, we were able to listen there breathing sound several times, sometimes they didn't move and kept just silent and calm which gave us the perfect moments to see there blowholes and also there large body, underneath the surface we saw their white side flippers shining trough and further out we spotted two more Humpis which we were on our way to check out the last part of our tour. We saw one Humpback whale spy hopping, sticking its upper body above the surface, not often we are able to see that. The other (YES, FOURTH) individual was a bit smaller but showing its fluke really well all the time. There are so many things to tell, many good moments, a really good tour and we are looking forward to tomorrow ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland March 20th 12:55
2 Humpback Whales today & few Harbour Porpoises along the way! We sailed out and did now know what we should expect today - sunny and warm outside and slightly windy. We sailed for some time and were thinking that maybe we would not find anything today - but then 2-3 Harbour Porpoises said hello on the way, we havent seen much of them lately so that was a pleasant surprise:) - And it filled us with hope again! Suddenly we saw a big blow in the distance - YAY! - can only mean one thing, Humpbacks are around, so we sailed towards the blows and met up with 2 lovely Humpback Whales! We could watch them for a while, their flukes are always so amazing to see! What a good ending to a nice day out on sea:)
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Whale Watching Iceland march 19th 12:55
Due to a strong wind in the bay we unfortunally have to cancel todays whale watching tour. We hope that all of you can enjoy the wonderfully blue sky from the land and maybe take a sunbath to recharge batteries. Until it is again "WELCOME ON BOARD THE ANDREA!" and let's start to the next whale watching adventure. Your Crew
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Whale Watching Iceland March 18th 12:55
Bit windy out today - but beautiful clear skies & sunny weather in Reykjavik
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Whale Watching Iceland March 17th 12:55
Day out with the White-Beaked Dolphins today:o)
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Whale Watching Iceland March 16th 12:55
We sailed out today and the weather beautiful as before - clear skies and the sun shining
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Whale Watching Iceland March 15th 12:55
Today we headed out in beautiful weather again - what a great week for weather & whale watching in Iceland!:)
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Whale Watching Iceland March 13th 12:55
The Humpback Whales are here to stay - or so it seems:)
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Whale Watching Iceland March 12th 12:55
Another fabulous day with couple of Humpback Whales rolling around in the pod of 100´s of White-Beaked Dolphins!
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Whale Watching Iceland March 11th 12:55
What an amaazing tour we had today! Sun was shining this morning and the sea smooth as glass! - We sailed out with our passengers, excited to see what the sea would offer us today!
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Whale Watching Iceland March 10th 12:55
Beautiful, to days weather wa the best, the ocean dark blue and simply calm, no waves or strong winds we had to slip trough. Weather more and more emanates into springtime and its wonderful to stay on the upper deck having first beams of sunshine warming our faces. We decided to sail further then yesterdays tour, about 14 miles which was a nice sail passing the snow covered mountains that enclose our bay, fantastic weather and many of us just hanged out on the upper deck sipping free hot drinks to enjoy one more warmly spring day. We sailed 30 min when we spotted a couple of withe beaked dolphins just a front our boat, about 5 meters distance and soon after, we detected a full range of several pots surrounding a large area, at some point we saw the ocean filled with this beautiful creatures to see everywhere, which makes us guess there mast have been more then 200 dolphins, at least ! Mind blocking , nearly everywhere we watched them either speeting towards our boat in large groups up to 20 individuals and just a few meters further some of them kept on jumping, not only that, placing them self in a long line next to our boat performing there "stunts", all of them jumping at the same moment. Really, it was like that ;) magical, nearly unreal. We stayed there for a long time and then really we had to sail back, almost one hour behind our timetable. Imagine, everybody happy enjoying the sunshine, smiling ~ when suddenly we saw this big black back of a minke whale, well our captain spotted it at the first place and we eminently stopped and waited for the big whale to surface, which happened just a few moments later very close to our boat, we saw the triangulate formed minke whales jaw resurfacing above the small waves and then the black back, incredibly close we listen to the whales buff, terrific. We are so late, such a wonderful day ~ we hasted back to the harbour, passing our little lighthouse and presto one turn right and one turn left ready to anger home ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland March 9th 12:55
We had cold wind which made it somewhat chilly, so we dressed up warmly and sailed close to ashore to make an escape and there the wind wasn't that strong which actually made our sail very smooth, surprisingly ;) We truly searched behind the last angle and wave, but to day we could not find any whale, nothing ;( We even sailed very far out to try on our luck, but no. We changed our course and the wind really wagged up front our beautiful boat which gave our tour some refresher and swing, also for a moment we had sunshine all over which was just like spring time. We haded all our guests a complementary ticket for free to come with us again another much better tour for free.
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Whale Watching Iceland March 7th 12:55
There is still a strong wind in the bay, the waves are to huge to sail across, so we decided also to cancel to days tour ~
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Whale Watching Iceland March 7th 12:55
A huge storm out on sea, blustering waves ~ we have to stay home to day and must cancel this tour ;(
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Whale Watching Iceland March 3rd 12:55
To day we have a strong wind in the bay, the waves are to huge to sail across, so we decided to cancel this tour ~
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Whale Watching Iceland March 2nd 12:55
The weather for to days tour was rainy with an cold winters aura that arrived after yesterdays gale, so quickly just before reaching the feeding grounds, we snuggled into our overalls that kept us warm and try for the sail out to the whale areas. The ocean to day were a bit "moving" to some of our guests ~ under waves made our boat swinging up and down which can be fun and also we had this cold wind blowing slightly, taking our warms away, so we offered free hot chocolate like we do on all our trips to keep our brave tourists warm, when searching for eventually first signs of a big whale out there, maybe. Sailing far, we were able to watch an enormous number groups of Eider Ducks traveling, some gathering by the surface which means there mast be lots of nourishment out there, perhaps trough the warm days we had last days and maybe soon more of the big whales will arrive here in Faxi bay, think so, soon. We sailed for some while, a bit longer then we like ~ but we were lucky and detected several groups of withe beaked dolphins which traveled rather fast, also remaining under the water for a long time and sometimes we behold there sight just underneath the surface very close to our boat, some individuals came incredibly close, keeping little space of distance ~ perfect moments.
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Whale Watching Iceland March 1st 12:55
This afternoon a strong gale will arrive close to the bay, so we decided to cancel this tour ~
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Whale Watching Iceland Frbruary 28th 12:55
Beautiful tour ~ we actually had to sail very far today to locate the lucky spot, searching for 30 minutes and then we saw withe beaked dolphins fairly close on the front of our boat. Some individuals of this group came really close and we saw them underneath the water surface moving towards us which gave us the moments to behold there withe colored patches. They moved quit fast and some of them were jumping just next to our boat, wonderful. When we arrived we saw many bids gathering to catch some fish between the feeding dolphins, a nice picture. The weather calmed after yesterdays little storm, but rather bigger under waves moved the surface,which gave our boat a swing of adventure.
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Whale Watching Iceland Frbruary 24th 12:55
Sunday, the last day of a rainy week ~ We sailed trough the midday cloudy genera, bright and dark gray colors which gave beautiful shades. This week we were incredibly lucky with the weather conditions. The temperatures are strangely, beautifully mild for this time of the year, we can feel the warmth from the sun and behold many colourful rainbows, sometimes only shining trough dark winter clouds, rain, mist and sunshine, like in todays tour and after searching for a long while, we weren't able to find whales but we saw many birds ~ Eider Ducks, Gannets, Shags, Cormorants, Gloucous Gulls, a beautiful picture of the sea we had to day. We handed our passengers a free ticked to sail with us again! ~
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Whale Watching Iceland Frbruary 23rd 12:55
We headed north east to not have the strong wind blowing to strongly, rolling from south east. The weather started up mild and warm, but just before we started to leave our home harbor the cold wind have arrived and we jumped into our warm overalls, sipping hot chocolate. It took about 20 minutes until we reached one of the main feeding grounds where we stopped the engine and just waited for something or someone to show up ;) We searched for a long time and also sailed different areas. Soon splashes took our attention and it turn out we had a group of withe beaked dolphins in front of the boat. They stayed with us for a long time ~ until we had to leave because of the timing. Good moments were we saw their colored patches and some individuals incredibly close to our boat.
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Whale Watching Iceland Frbruary 22nd 12:55
We sailed towards the same area were we spotted a group of withe beaked dolphins in yesterdays tour ~ we were lucky to locate them again, this time it seamed there were more of them, a bigger group of them hanging out close to our boat. We had fantastic moments watching them by a distance of 5 meters and less. They stayed with us all the time and when we decided to sail further out into the bay to find perhaps some other whales we spotted a few withe beaked dolphins again coming close to our boat. The weather conditions are mild and rainy, just like spring and also the ocean surface showed a bright color which made it easy for us to locate the dolphins. We saw many sea birds, mostly Gannets which are not as often seen lately ~ The sea kept calm which gave us a comfortable sail all along this tour and now we are entering our harbor with good memories of an excellent tour.
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Whale Watching Iceland Frbruary 21st 12:55
Sailing into the rain ~ the bay appeared ensnared set by a beautiful brume which looked beautiful by the calm ocean we had to day, to day we sailed with our boat Andrea which is kinda native. We didn't had to search for a long time when we spotted a group of withe beaked dolphins further and then approaching our boat incredibly close ~ staying close to our boat all the time, which gave us good moments to behold there colored patches on there body. They seamed like a big group of withe beaked dolphins cause we were able to see them all around the boat and further out. All together a good tour, now we are passing the little lighthouse and soon our home harbour ~
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Whale Watching Iceland February 17th 12:55
Unfortunally we had to cancel the tour due to bad weather conditions in the bay.
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Whale Watching Iceland February 16th 12:55
Very good tour ! First of all the weather conditions remained terrific and it didn't take long time when we spotted a large group of withe beaked dolphins further out. We saw splashes and some individuals jumping, some very close to our boat. The sea was as clear as a mirror and some withe beaked dolphins kept distance as well. All together it mast have been a big group of 100 animals. The most amassing thing was when some of them kept incredibly close to our boat and remained with us for a long time, surrounding our boat, in fact a family that stayed with us for a long time. The little one started jumping next to our boat. Really, an incredible tour !
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Whale Watching Iceland February 15th 12:55
We sailed a large area and we were very lucky with the weather conditions ~ sunshine and mild temperatures all over, what a fantastic tour we had enjoying warm weather like that. But we couldn't find any of the cetaceans in this tour. There were many seabirds like Fulmars, Kittiwakes, Eider Ducks, Shags, Cormorants. We searched and sailed very far and for a long time, but eventually we had to sail back to the harbor ~ we handed all our brave passengers another ticket for free to come with us again in fallowing days and hopefully we are more lucky tomorrow ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland February 14th 12:55
We had perfect weather conditions for the months of February ~ once again we were able to set some colour on our nose, sunshine all over the bay and calm sea. The snow covered mountains surrounding the bay which made our sail fantastic. We didn't had to search for a long time when we spotted a big group of withe beaked dolphins ~ maybe 60 to 80 all together, they remained close and some kept distance and making splashes. We sailed further out to look out for the big whale ~ but we couldn't find it and just before entering the harbour area we spotted a little group of harbour porpoises ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland February 10th 12:55
We sailed again from Hafnafoerdur and to day we decided to sail very far to find the hideout of the big whale ~ Never I have seen so beautiful waves, a rolling carpet and the green colours ending by the horizon, a line of endless haze. We sailed fast and within the wind towards Gardur and then further. There was no other boat to see far and wide, surrounded by mist that we weren't to see shore, a magical sail ! We didn't stop sailing until we reached the end of the bay, were we stopped and stayed for a long time, waiting for the big whale to come. Unbelievable news, also in this tour no whales, but we had so much fun sailing in hast, being drenched by upcoming slashes when sailing like the wind back home, yes finally back to our home harbor in Reykjavik ~
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Whale Watching Iceland February 9th 12:55
We sailed again from Hafnafoerdur and today into a really mild weather conditions, not as cold. Just when we started our tour we had a big rainbow painted from one side to the other and the sun dazzled from the other side, causing the sea and surrounded mountains to glisten very bright and the rainbow stayed all the time just like that, it was incredible to look at. We sailed for a long time but also in this tour we couldn't find the big whale and we handed all our passengers a complementary ticket to come with us again for another whale tour, hopefully seeing most of all soon back on our next days tours ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland February 8th 12:55
Since we ended our tour yesterday in Hafnaförður we started our tour from there today, sailing close to shore which gave us shelter and the wind blowing south west wasn't as strong in our neck. We sailed for a long time searching for whales, but there was nothing we couldn't spot out there and with time it became colder and we jumped into our warm overalls ~ slurping hot chocolate, snuggle up and there was this rainbow, all over sudden appearing in the middle of February, the sun shined so bright and the ocean just looked beautiful out there. We kept on sailing by this area but we weren't able to find the whales to day. But again we had a beautiful sail seeing many birds like Cormorants, Shags, Kittiwakes, Fulmars, Little Auks, Eider Ducks and also Gannets. The weather actually was really mild and made this a beautiful tour even we didn't find whales. Free tickets for everyone !
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Whale Watching Iceland February 7th 12:55
We started our tour from Keflavik and sailed along the coast towards Hafnafoerdur where we ended our tour and the weather was orderly acceptable ;) Well some sleeting and rain, soft winds ~ but after some while we were given a tad of sunshine tussling trough dark clouds, beautiful sail and there we searched for something out there, the big whale, but it wasn't there ~ all the way to Hafnaförður and just before we stooped off the harbor we spotted a small group of withe beaked dolphins, but as soon they appeared they disappeared, we got to see two of the individuals very close to our boat, but just for a single moment. We handed of course all our passengers another tour for free to come with us again in fallowing days, hopefully more luckiness this weekend ~
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Whale Watching Iceland February 3rd 12:55
Unfortunally we had to cancel the tour due to bad weatherconditions in the bay.
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Whale Watching Iceland February 2nd 12:55
Unfortunally we had to cancel the tour due to bad weatherconditions in the bay.
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Whale Watching Iceland February 1st 12:55
We did find the big whale (s), finally ! What a wonderful tour we had to day and all together with the sunny weather conditions we another "spring" day out on sea. To day we headed all the way to Sandgerði, we had to sail about 25 miles and on our fine speeding boat Rosin we did 24, 5 knots we hasted like the wind above the little waves, tickled sunshine on our nose and ball to the wall ~ towards the big whale. From the boat we were enjoying the few to the shore, beautiful sail and then eventually we reached the endless sea, far out and only a puff around the lighthouse and there hi was, the big whale. Surrounded by small fishing boats a Humpback whale surfacing in between, when we've gotten closer we were able to see the black back and also several time the fluke of the big whale showing before going for a dive, at some moments the Humpback came close, about 10 meters distance of from our boat. We had such a fantastic time and then we spotted one more Humpback further out which we sailed to and hang out a bit. Hopefully we have the same perfect weather conditions tomorrow and lets see if the big whales still out there.
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Whale Watching Iceland January 31st 12:55
The weather conditions let us have a beautiful sail out there ~ sunshine, warm temperatures and wild storms remained somewhere far away, leaving us in peace to day. We headed south, many miles to find some of the big whales which we heared from other fisher boats that they have arrived here in our bay. The sail out there was a dream hanging out by brilliant spring weather conditions here in January, unbelievable! Well, but mmm we didn't find the big whales in this tour and not any species and we tried so badly, but nothing. Thanks to the weather this tour still was terrific and also many seabirds during this tour, Razorbills, Guillemots, Fulmars, Eider Ducks, Gannets, Shags, Cormorants and Gloucous Gulls. Great tour, and tomorrow we gonna find this big whale, we will rock the ocean until we strike a bonanza to make a find ~
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Whale Watching Iceland January 26th 12:55
We had to overcome difficult weather conditions and it was adventures, a bit more than the past days, which made us changing the course towards the south and we stayed close to shore all the time. For a moment we thought to have spotted dolphins, and maybe there, cutting surface just gingerly and fast gone. We weren't able to find cetaceans in this tour, even though we tried all we could to detect maybe one, but no. We ended our tour in Hafnafoerdur, a different Harbour and went back to Reykjavik by bus. Also of course we handed all our brave guests a complementary ticket to come with us again on a day of their choice ~
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Whale Watching Iceland January 25th 12:55
We headed towards the feedings grounds, to day we sailed quite far, 15 mils, a large area we searched and also in this tour we wasn't able to find any cetaceans. The weather was beautiful to day ~ we were able to sail quiet, no winds and some sunshine between the clouds. We tried our best, but weren't able to surprise our brave tourists with any kinds of whales ;( But we saw incredibly many sea birds like Kittiwakes, Fulmars, Black backed gulls, Eider Ducks and Gannets gathering by different areas, which gave our tour a touch of the ocean ~ Everyone seamed to have a good time, even we didn't find the big whale and of course free tickets for our guests to come with us again in fallowing days. We are actually running out of tickets ~ lets hope for an miracle tomorrow ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland January 24th 12:55
Today we sailed from another harbour in Hafnaförður to evade todays big balm waves, well they weren't that big really and so we missed out an adventures sail across the ocean ~ sailing close to shore we tried to find the big whale but we werent able to detect any of the big whales. When we sailed further three white beaked dolphins stopped by for a small moment which were the highlight of our tour. Our guests enjoyed the sail back to the harbor and we handed everyone a free whale ticket to come with us again in fallowing days for a better whale watching adventure`~
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Whale Watching Iceland January 20th 12:55
Unfortunally we had to cancel the tour due to bad weatherconditions in the bay.
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Whale Watching Iceland January 19th 12:55
Unfortunally we had to cancel the tour due to bad weatherconditions in the bay.
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Whale Watching Iceland January 18th 12:55
Today we had no luck! The weather was windy and there were some waves, luckily we had almost no rain. Searching in every corner of the Faxaflói bay we unfortunatly didnt find any whale. But our passengers enjoyed anyway the ride with our high speed boat Rósin which was shooting over the waves. Some brave of us got wet all over. It was fun!
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Whale Watching Iceland January 17th 12:55
A rough day with a dolphin party. The west wind was quiet strong and the waves became higher in the afternoon. Rain was accompanying our ship during the whole journey. After a long and wet search we finally found a group of white beaked dolphins, 6-12 animals, playing around in the water, coming very close to the ship. There was even a baby dolphin jumping out of the water. When they headed away from us we lost their track and searched for some minutes until they surprisingly came up under our boat. They tricked us!
jan
Whale Watching Iceland January 13th 12:55
The weather changed and we had to sail trough an area by rather wild weather conditions, but once we were done and across this spot, sea calmed. We kept close to shore for some while and then we headed further into the bay, by then we spotted a group of withe beaked dolphins, first we still had to search well to find them again, but then we had fantastic moments with some of the individuals approaching our boat incredibly close, which gave us the opportunity to see their white patches and shape. We stayed for a long time with these wonderful cetaceans until they went feeding again ~ We didn't want to sail back home trough the wavy area again, and so we decided to end our tour in Hafnafördur, where a bus picked us back to our home harbour. All together a nice tour, rather adventures ;)
jan
Whale Watching Iceland January 12th 12:55
Before starting into a new venture our captains decided to sail a large area. Todays weather conditions matched perfectly with calm sea surface and warm temperatures. Actually its been long since we've been out that far away from Reykjavik or lets say shore~ but also within this tour we weren't able to detect the big whale again ;) We had observed a large area of seabirds like Gannets, Shags, Fulmars, Razorbills, a magical sail, really! And once again we handed our lovely guests another ticket to come with us again for free.
jan
Whale Watching Iceland January 11th 12:55
We were all excited from yesterdays tour, spotting the Humpback, first of this year ~ after preparing for a new day, we headed towards the same area to find the Humpback, but it kept hiding and so we kept on sailing a large area. Also the weather conditions were slightly different, we had to battle strong winds for some while. We sailed very close ashore along the Reykjanes peninsula, which was beautiful. By then weather calmed and we had the most beautiful sunset since days. Well, we searched for a long time and at some point we had to sail back to Reykjavik without seeing one cetacean ~ But since we had such a nice sail everyone was still happy and so we try tomorrow again to find the big whale out there ;) We handed free tickets to join us again and hope to see you soon back on our whale boat for another venture on sea.
jan
Whale Watching Iceland January 10th 12:55
The big whale is found ~ yes finally , we cant really believe it ;) When we started our tour we was really happy about the weather conditions, which were calm sea, no waves and most vital of all, none of the cold ice winds blowing of front into our face, no it was perfect to sail out. We past a district of hazy area mixed with rain, were we saw many birds gathering above the silent surface, like kittiwakes, razorbills and a bunch of shags, but no really signs of cetaceans, by then the captain of the other whale boat brought us news that there crew spotted withe beaked dolphins and so we took course towards another direction which were the best thing happen to us, cause just by sailing towards the dolphins we've spotted a huge blow, ohh we knew there was something huge out there, soon after a big black back and the stuppy dorsal fin ~ another blow and then a fluke tail, a huge Humpback ~ from our experience we can tell that this is a really big Humpi , we had wonderful moments watching our laddie fairly close to the boat, the closest were 5 meters , gosh it was thrilling, this big whale kinda was almost the same length of our boat, so close and we never really had to look for it were to surface next, we just listen to its incredibly lutes while it was breathing, its flukes emerged all times and also trougth the surface we spotted the white colored tail fins ~ the angel of the ocean ;) Wonderful tour, can*t wait to tomorrow to see the Humpback again, hopefully ~
jan
Whale Watching Iceland January 6th 12:55
To day we sailed from our home harbour Reykjavik and also we've been lucky with the change of the weather conditions ;) The ocean remained silent along this tour and we enjoyed a wonderful sail pretty close to shore and other areas, we saw many seabirds in this tour, which was nice and also gave us lots of hope. It didn't take long time when we spotted a small group of withe beaked dolphins close to our boat and for some while they came really close which gave us a fantastic moment to behold there withe colored patches on there body. We actually lost them at some point and weren't able to see them again, so we headed further to try and find more whales, but no, no more cetaceans in this tour. We gave all our passengers another free golden ticket to sail with us in coming days for a better whale watching tour ;)
jan
Whale Watching Iceland January 5th 12:55
We started our tour form Hafnarfjörður, a port town and municipality located on the south-west coast of Iceland, about 10 km south of Reykjavík. Weather conditions first appeared intense, rain, wind and hailstones ~ but soon after we crossed trough the veil of haze and winds, towards another area, further out, conditions changed quickly. Wind calmed and what was left by the first strong upwinds we then had in our back to sail withinn the waves, incredibly sail, the sound of waves bashing our boat, by the left side penisula we enjoyed a beautiful sunset of red colours wreathed in mist covering the shore and mountains. We kept searching along this area, one of the best known feeding grounds ~ but also to day we couldn't find the big whale. Well. Many sea birds were out there, Shags, Razorbills, Auks and Gannets. We ended our tour at our home harbour in Reykjavik and handed all of our guests a complementary ticket to come with us again to a better whale watching tour ;)
jan
Whale Watching Iceland January 3rd 12:55
Wind, lots wind in this tour and we call this a more adventures tour above the waves into the areas we know well for good spotting places, we had to first sail trough some windy area but soon when we passed, really good conditions to find whales. First we thought to be lucky to have spotted something out there, but we were tricked by our eyes and so we sailed on into different areas, but also this tour seamed unlucky and we couldn't find any cetaceans. Some of our brave passengers helped searching until the end, but no ;( Still a magical sail into the winters colours, snow surrounding the mountains in the bay and when we came home our lighthouse welcoming us ;) We were sipping on hot chocolate and enjoyed our sail back home. Of course, free tickets to come again for everyone and we hope to see you all soon again !
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 28th 12:55
Finally, better weather conditions let us out ~ Yesterdays wind were kinda unpleasant and eventually to day we were happily prepared for a new adventure. Our deck were like a slide, where even a captain scarce could stand, very icily. And our bay ~ like always on this winters days, just beautiful, there was frost to see every where, on the towns roofs as white as ocean foam by the harbor side, sea surface remained calmly covered by patchy fog and over night we had a spit of snow covering surrounding mountains in beautiful bright colours, well not only the mountains. We sailed various points of our compass ;) Tacked and tacked between areas we know as good spotting places, but no, we couldn't make a faint call for one single cetacean. While sailing the snowfall were increasing and the wind was blowing rather squally ~ swirling big snow flocks towards all directions, which in a way was lovely to behold, but also splashing into our eyes which made it difficult to peer and look around for whales, but still a beautiful sail trough the falling snow cubes ;) Well, they arriving somewhat late, aren't they ;) We also saw some birds along this tour, Eider ducks, Shags, Kittiwakes and Gannets. We handed every one a gratis ticket to visit us again for when the bells open for a more lucky sail. Fast and Ici we sailed back home, most of us gathering in our cosy coffeehouse, while warming on free hot chocolate, peering behind the ice sparkled windows to maybe still find the big whale. Frozen ropes for us and gratis whale tickets for our happy tourists to come back for a more successfully whale watching hunt ;)
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 23rd 12:55
One beautiful Christmas sail ;) we didn't really know if we were to sail into a new adventure to day, cause everyone seamed occupied on shopping then to come out to find the big whale ~ but then all suddenly everyone seamed to have changed there mind and our fine whale yacht was surprisingly packed by only a few seconds, well yes ~ so we boiled fresh captains cafe, get on moving, raising our whale flag for the last sailing day before we open our presents at home tomorrow ;) Our tourists brought a fantastic atmosphere, well temper is the better expression to say and so all of them joyed the upper deck from the very start our tour ~ and an attentive audience makes a quick find, some of our sharp bulging eyes hunters spotted something out there ~ once we "tiptoe" closer we detected a medium sized group of withe beaked dolphins. They gave us the pleasure to behold there beautiful colors at a distance less then 2 meters, just like yesterdays tour. We were lucky to hang out a bit with them and then decided to sail further to find a big ocean beast ~ perhaps , but since there wasn't the big whale out there we spurted back towards the group of withe beaked dolphins and had a real good time. Our sail back was into the evening mood, warm colors of the sunset all over the snowy mountains surrounding our bay and of course free hot chocolate for everyone ~ Merry Christmas and many hugs to all of you (())
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 22nd 12:55
When we set our fine whale vessel for to days tour we notice the strong wind by the harbor side and luckely when we sailed into the bay the wind have calmed and also the temperatures were fairly warm for this time of the year. We had this really nice sail above the waves and every one was able to stay outside to try and help to find the big whale, maybe ;) We sailed close to shore and also a different area as yesterdays tour ~ and we were lucky this time, cause not after long we spotted a fine group of withe beaked dolphins further out, after a little while they approached our boat and came incredibly close to our vessel. We were so excited about the good weather conditions that we decided to sail further out to find perhaps the big whale ;) But there was no bigger whale and so we sailed back to the group of withe beaked dolphins and this time they came so close to our boat, only 2 meters or less, we had fantastic moments and also they had a little baby dolphin traveling with there family, and sometimes jumping, it was incredibly cute :)
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 21st 12:55
Some people wouldn't call this the perfect sea conditions to sail out, but somehow further out on the bay the rather cold wind have calmed down and for some while we sailed above little waves and a warm breeze in our neck. We sailed towards the same area were we spotted yesterdays withe beaked dolphins, but to day seamed to be the unlucky day, cause there were no sign's of the dolphins or whales. We tried to sail other areas but no whale this time ;( We handed all our passengers another ticket for free to come with us again when ever they wish too ;)
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 20th 12:55
The weather have calmed after yesterdays Stormy day and we even had some sunshine rising trough the drifting clouds. We sailed towards the feeding grounds along the beautiful snow covered mountains, beautiful cove shore and the waves quieter then we thought, and the ocean gave us a good outlook cause of the bright colored clouds rolling by the which gave the surface a bright touch ~ fantastic conditions to detect whales. We didn't sail for a long them when some of our sighted a group of withe beaked dolphins very close to our boat. We were incredibly lucky to have them so close and also stying with us for a good while. We had a beautiful sail back home ~ looking forward to tomorrows tour ;)
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 16th 12:55
The weather calmed after yesterdays wild storm, beautiful sunshine all along this tour but quite frosty north east wind blowing our mind ;) So we started to sail close by the shore to escape the big waves and soon we reached the feeding grounds were we went on the qui vice to find our big hoggish whale again ~ but soon we spotted big splashes and a medium sized group of white beaked dolphins appeared just before our fine boat and we were able to behold there beautiful colors, several times they jumped and we saw the dark flippers and white colors ~ they came really close to the boat, keeping less than 5 meters distance, so we had a fantastic tour. Also the white baked dolphins stayed for a fairly long time with us and then we behold the magical sunset which gave the snow covered mountains warm rose colors ~ now we are passing our little yellow lighthouse close to our home harbor, everyone seems to warm up here in our cozy coffeehouse, and of course free hot drinks and good music to shake their leg to the melody ;)
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 15th 12:55
Due to a storm in the bay we unfortunally had to cancel the whale watching tour for today.
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 14th 12:55
Again chasing the secret whale out there, we decided that time to go by our speedy boat Rosin to find the missing minke whale from yesterdays tour ;) We headed quit fast, fast fast fast !! Incredibly fun to sail like the wind and then we reached the exact same place where we heard of the minke whale hanging out the same morning, seen by some people on shore, and again there was no whale ;( We searched up and down all corners the sea have to offer, but no whale far and wide, but once again beautiful scenery of the sunset and snowy mountains all around the bay. We had a fantastic sail back home and everyone seamed to enjoy it so much ;) Of course free ticket for every one !
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 13th 12:55
To day we had cold wind rolling from north and it was so cold, but once we sailed within the sunshine we warmed and also our warm overalls. We sailed direction south to try and find our luck, but unfortunately we were not able to detect any kind of creatures like usually and the we heard from another vessel that there is a minke whale, but unfortunately when we arrived there we weren't able to find this secret whale, it was gone by than ;( Since we sailed very far we also had a long way back home along the shore which was beautiful ~ we offered all our brave passengers another tour for free to come with us again when ever they feel like ;)
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 9th 12:55
Frosty, incredibly cold day ;O) Jumping into our warm overalls and sipping hot chocolate, we were ready and away into a new days adventure. Beautiful winterday and we didn't sail far, when pretty close to our lighthouse we spotted a group of white beaked dolphins, approaching our boat which gave us the possibility to see their beautiful white colors shining trough the surface, the stayed with us for about longer 15 min, fairly close by the star of our boat, only a few meters distance ~ almost able to touch them, so close they were;) After wards we sailed further, since we changed our course the cold wind stooped blowing into our faces which made it a bit more warmly together with the sunshine. A beautiful sail, also we spotted a group of harbor porpoises and several sea birds in this tour. We handed our passengers another tour for free, since we can't call this a perfect whale watching tour ~
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 8th 12:55
Due to a storm in the bay we unfortunally had to cancel the whale watching for today. Please excuse the inconvenience caused.
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 7th 12:55
Wild wavy weather conditions at the first look from the harbor when preparing our boat for a new day, but when we sailed further in time the wind calmed. The surface completely smooth. Far and wide was non of the other boats to see. We had the ocean just for ourselves ~ snow covered mountains, afternoon sunshine spreading in warm colors above the surface and hills all along the bay. We sailed a large area and soon spotted a group of harbor porpoises. Showing us their common behavior to dipsy doodle ;) Being in great hurry and all whats left for us to behold are splashes. We decided to sail a bit further, in hope to find yesterdays group of withe beaked dolphins again, but no ;( the big whale didn't drop in ;) The nightfall came and the sunshine was gone soon. Time to sail back home and time for free hot drinks and old Icelandic tales to tell by gathering together in our cozy homelike coffeehouse. We enjoyed a happy atmosphere and all of our guests got a complementary ticket to come with us for a better whale watching tour in coming days of their choice ~
des
Whale Watching Iceland December 6th 12:55
When we set the our boat for todays sail ~ we were so excited to sail into the beautiful weather. Blue sky and no frosty winds which gave the snow covered mountains a magical shine all around. We sailed our common areas and soon detected a small group of withe beaked dolphins, actually a small family this time. We were so lucky to observe a little dolphin calf traveling all the time close to the other individuals, attempting to catch up speed of its friends to not stay behind, just really cute movements ~ This group stayed with us all along this tour, keeping distance and close in long time intervals, most of the time keeping only about 5 meters away from our boat, so once again we were able to behold the beautiful withe patches of there body shining trough the glass clear frosty ocean surface ~ We actually running late, at this moment the sun has set already and evening clouds are rising from the north, soon a magical dark veil of mist will set the ocean to sleep, time to now enter our home harbor ;)
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 30th 12:55
We sailed towards the same area were we found yesterdays withe beaked dolphins ~ the afternoon sky looked beautiful and the wind were blowing only a sprinkling of soft ocean breeze, surrounded by a fantastic few of the snowbound mountains, all around. We didn't sail for a long time and luckily spotted yesterdays gang of withe beaked dolphins again ~ yes ;) All of a sudden appearing out of the blue, traveling towards our direction, right in front of us and soon they reached our boat, so fast and zappy while causing splashes by their movements, further out we saw one of the dolphins was jumping several times and then they came incredibly close, which gave us the possibility's to behold there colors patterns shining trough the glass blue frosty winters sea ~ mainly black, white and light grey patches along their body side and there white colored stripes are so perfectly visibly trough the surface, like today. But unluckily they just stayed for not a long time with our boat, somehow they had other plans, most likely their immense appetite made them hound some other places. We sailed and didn't find any other species, but the weather remained so beautiful and silent and especially the reddish warm colored sunset made this tour a dream ~
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 29th 12:55
Rainy conditions, but beautiful because the ocean and all surroundings along the bay where coverd in a veil of mist. Bright clouds gave the ocean surface a bright colour which makes it very easy to "detect" the big beasts out there. We didn't sail far when we spotted group of withe beaked dolphins a bit further away. Soon they surfaced incredibly close to our boat which gave us a nice prospect to observe their beautiful patches of colors and also their amazingly big size. The group was medium sized and some dolphins remained very close while others were further out. One individual kept on jumping out of the water several times, not far from our boat, so cute ;) Then the colors of the sky changed, darkened. Soon the night will raise; that happens pretty fast here during winter time. Short days ~ but our little lighthouse close to the harbor showing us the way ~ and still now, while we are sailing home it hasn't stopped raining. The temperatures are not as cold and there is a fresh breeze of sea around ~ nice sail.
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 25th 12:55
The weather today was so beautiful, clear sky, sunshine and there were no clouds, everything was quiet and the sea perfect to spot whales ~ We sailed many miles into the feeding grounds and there we found a group of white beaked dolphins appearing out of nowhere. First we only spotted one single individual jumping a few times and landing on its side on the water, very cute. When we got closer we detected more and more dolphins. A small group; traveling with our boat for a long time. Our sail back home became like a winter tale, the sky set into a soft mist of rose colors which came with a touch up red sunset ~ the snowy mountains along the bay and the rising moon above the hills were entangled by a magical brume of the night and our small yellow lighthouse blinking last waves to our home port.
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 24th 12:55
Wonderful day to start up to days tour, the wind has raised a bit and we had some drifting clouds covering the sky, but first days sunbeams shining trough ~ which came with soft rain an guess what, we had a November rainbow while we where sailing towards the feeding grounds. Everybody seamed so excited to find the "big whale" which is hiding far out and so we sailed far into the blue of the sea, soft waves made this tour kinda .. nice ;) First focus went to the birds which were gathering by the surface ~ unbelievably many birds like Fulmars, Razorbills the Eider Ducks ;) Guillemots, Glaucous Gulls and Gannets showed us the way and for a moment we thought to have seen a glimpse of a minke whale, we kept looking all around but, well, we never know what happend to the black shadow between the waves, never seen again. Than sun after that we spotted group of withe beaked dolphins, and they came very close to our boat, so close we were almost able to touch them by the front side. They remained with us for a long time and when we sailed further to find the big whale, they fallowed us ad on our way back we spotted some individuals of there group again, and again they came very close to our boat ~ which gave us a beautiful moment to observe their beautiful withe colors ;) Wonderful tour! On our way back to the harbor some of our fun passengers really enjoied the time outside on the upper deck. ;) It was so much fun to see everybody so happy and free in there holidays ~
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 23rd 12:55
What a wonderful winterday with some wind and some waves, but nothing to worry about. Some fog was hanging on Esja and the sun came out once, shining on some mountain slopes. Although we were searching hard for whales, it was difficult to spot them. We found a minke whale in some distance but when we arrived at the place the whale played a hiding game and didn't come often to the surface. The minke whale preferred to dive for long periods and finally disappeared without letting us know. This tour could have been better, but as we use to say: Whale watching is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you gonna get.
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 22nd 12:55
Today was a beautiful day for whale watching, not too cold, almost no wind and no waves, and sunshine most of the time. It didnt take much time to find the first toothed whales, a group of white beaked dolphins was crossing our way, coming towards us and greeting, swimming around our boat and jumping out of the water. It was a pod of 6-8 animals and we stayed with them for quiet some time. Then we went on searching for other animals in the Faxafloi bay but unfortunatly didnt find any bigger whales. But but on our way back we found another lively group of white beaked dolphins and they even had calves with them and were very excited about coming to our boat an swimming with us. A very good moment.
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 16th 12:55
Today was a beautiful winter day. It was snowing, there was little wind from the north and just small waves when we left the harbour. But after half an hour the wind got stronger (with ice corns) and the waves higher, which made it very difficult to spot the whales. In the end we found a single harbour porpoise which appeared very short and disappeared again, but unfortunately no other whale showed up. All our passengers were invited for another tour!
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 11th 12:55
Finaly the winds have calmed and we were able to sail again ~ Beautiful Sunday and we even had some sunshine tussle trough low drifting clouds, we headed far to find a big whale and our passengers seamed well excited, all we need for a beautiful Sunday out on sea. We actually had to search for a pretty long time, there were no whales, but lots of seabirds like Gulls, Manx Sheerwater, Razorbills, Cormorants and also lots of Kittiwakes, they are actually the only gull species that are exclusively cliff-nesting. The ocean looked still beautiful, dark blue and small waves, even though the temperatures were kinda frosty and when we've been sailing for some while, then suddenly out of the blue we saw a minke whale surfacing about 50 meters ahead our boat, but only one time! We saw the big grey black body appearing and a huge blow dissolving above the surface, magical. We thought then our whale just wend for a common deep and full of hope we waited for the animal to surface again, but the minke whale never showed itself again. Everyone was helping to sport this secret creature again, also cause the sea color glared in rather dark colors, which makes it more difficult to perceive the location of the whale, once it is surfacing ~ can be easily be missed and then lost ;( And then so it was, we lost our only whale of today’s tour, but maybe this speedy individual was just very occupied on feeding and for once seen one time ;p We kept searching for other whales and made a late return back home ~ but hot chocolate, boats made waffles perform a smile at almost everyone’s face, our boat kept the tune and so we sailed back, listen to Icelandic melodies and enjoying the amazingly prospect of the snow covered mountains surrounding our bay. Everyone has been invited to come with us for free to another ride above the sea ~
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 10th 12:55
We unfortunately had to cancel the whale watching tour today, 10.11.2012!
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 9th 12:55
Due to a storm in the bay we cancelled the tour today, 9th of november. If you have the possibility to join us another day we would be happy to welcome you in the harbour! Your Life of Whales - Team
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 8th 12:55
The harbor seemed so quiet today ~ when we were to set up to days tour, sipping fresh boiled captains cafe, there was only one tone to notice by this silence ~ the raving sea out there, again ;) It’s beautiful and kinda a becoming a homelike routine appetizer being waved out there in just a bit. Andrea, our lovely ship is perfectly fitting the waves and so we hit the road, muffled in our warm overall and free cafe for everyone, first round rocks free ~ Out there the wind wasn't that strong and we began to hit the feeding grounds of the whales and all what can be there, far ~ A group of gathering birds gave us hope and the weather soften so beautiful, but no whales ;( We searched for a long time and also sailed very far out, but nothing, not a single glimpse or hint of a sea monster or fish. The spirit of this tour changed into one big adventure, when most of our happy sea mooted tourists came out to the bow of the ship, enjoying the swing of nature ~ up and down, so much fun, and for a moment we forgot about the big missing whale and we handed all our guests another free ticked to come with us to find the big whale another day. The sight to the mountains was so magical ~ we had an endless view to Snæfellsnes and the highest mountains along the peninsula were wrapped into the white of the winter, rain made the smell and dark drifting clouds made the mystical moments. We always catching for the best moments in our tour and if it’s not for a big big whale surfacing next to us we always have the nature all around, that makes us "move" ;)
nóv
Whale Watching Iceland November 1st 12:55
A wonderful tour and this on a Sunday ~ all is so quiet now and the terribly monster storm of past days have moved over the sea and leaves us alone. The ocean looked so peacefully and even sunshine appeared trough some drifting clouds, men what a wonderful day. It seemed like everyone came out of there hide hole, especially our crew and we were ready for a new adventure to hand the big whale. We headed forwards the same feeding grounds and there we were to strike the bonanza, 2 big minke whales were hanging out close to our fine yacht Andrea ~ everyone waiting to get out for the whales and then we are so lucky to find all togteher 3 minke whales in this tour. Actually one minke whale was really strange, it was extremely wicked and smelt like a byre out of its big wide open jaw and the other minke whale hang out all the time under the water ~ and so we didn't see much of the animal, and the last minke whale was just normal and surfaced form time to time only 10 meters distance to our boat. But to our surprise we spotted a small group of white beaked dolphins, they were only two of them and they decided to travel for some time alongside our boat, white beaked dolphins are mostly found in here by the north and they are able to reach up to 2,7o meters in length, there colors are so beautiful and extremely characteristic, the flippers and flukes are black with the lower jaw and underside are white and since they came only 2 meters close to our boat ~ we were able to behold there beauty and had fantastic moments. The sunshine and the sea surface remained calm all along this tour and when time was up we had a wonderful sail back home, everyone hanging out some place on our big yacht, some on the upper deck reading newspaper, some visited our captains house sipping free captains cafe and some dancing to our nice sailing music by the first level and then some people hand out by our cozy coffeehouse on the " first floor" snoozing ;)
okt
Whale Watching Iceland October 29th 12:55
Unfortunately we did not see any whales on this trip today therefore we gave our guests an extra ticket for free to join us again.
okt
Whale Watching Iceland October 28th 12:55
The storm is over and the sea has calmed :) It is a good time to out Whale Watching! It was a bit cold but the sun was shining and everyone enjoyed being out on sea. Soon we encountered one Minke Whale who was quite active surfacing. His black back and the small dorsal fin were magnificent in the sunlight. This animal was busy feeding and kept on speeding up...It seemed that there was a lot of food in this area and a lot of birds joining the whales, all of a sudden some Harbor Porpoises felt invited too :) very tiny whales having lunch with the big ones. We kept on sailing a bit and found two other Minke Whales, one of them was so curious and interested in our boat that he surfaced only 5m away from our vessel. Incredible, goosebump feeling on board but this trip was far from being over...unexpectedly a little pod of White Beaked Dolphins joined the fun.....wonderful to see all these different species sharing their feeding ground. Very nice trip today :)
okt
Whale Watching Iceland October 26th 12:55
When we stood by the harbour welcoming our nice passengers we had to boil tee ~ awfully cold and then suddenly first snow flocks falling into our tee cup ;) Our captain pulled the flack and boiled fresh strong coffee and the we were ready for a new adventure, out there into the cold by the big whale with an open big greedy mouth .. waiting for us, we headed out with lots of happy people which were later dancing out there ~ Our first spot appeared easy , harbour porpoises all around and then when we took a look towards the mountains they were covered with snow, magical day. We headed further and meet this really big minke whale, this individual was so incredibly huge and every time when it surfaced next to our boat we were able to listen to the sound of the breathing and a big bad smell came out of its greedy fishy mouth. It was an awful smell, but we enjoyed our big whale big time and our misses guide enjoying this scenery all herself while ( once shoal see her new woolhad ;))) ) meanwhile we were occupied big time making hot dogs, baking waffle and actually having a little party down there in our cosy coffeehouse for those that were to cold out there watching the big whale. The big whale was really cool, cause it came all the time only 10 meters close to our fine boat and sometimes rolling around. And then, suddenly out of the blue there came withe beaked dolphins appearing all around the boat, it was amassing. They stayed together with the big hoggish whale close to our boat and then eventually we had to leave them behind ~ cause time was up ;( , but some of our tourists are still dancing to nice music here in our cosy coffeehouse . So we sailed above soft little east west wind waves towards home, passing our little yellow lighthouse and then we are almost home and our Katha will wait for us by the harbour ;)) We mast be quickly ~ cause soon the west wind will rise and big strong waves will rock the ocean, so we are not sailing tomorrow Saturday , staying back home and waiting for the Storm to go away rrr . We had a wonderful tour to day !! Dancing people, smelly whales, curious dolphins and very cute porpoises ;)
okt
Whale Watching Iceland October 25th 12:55
Brrrrrr...this is the Icelandic expression for ....man, it is cold today ;) The glacier in Snaefellsnes was whiter than white...a lot of snow there (beautyful view). Our Viking crew and guests were ready to go out Whale Watching and it did not take long to find a pod of White Beaked Dolphins surfacing quite often next to our boat and also right in front of us. We stayed with them for a while before we decided to find a big whale but it seemed that the dolphins did not agree on that so they joined us again and travel with us. We had to sail out a bit further to find a Minke Whale :) This animal was a baby not a big whale but very cute...he appeared a few times before he prefered to stay under water for sometime. All of a sudden we had a pod of Harbor Porpoises showing up, surfacing rather close to the boat and we were even able see their white belly. Three different species on this cold day, pretty successful...on the way back our guest joined our coffee house to warm up a bit and even our viking guide had very cold fingers ;)
okt
Whale Watching Iceland October 24th 12:55
Wonderful tour ~ once again ! What an incredibly week we have, today 6 minke whales and plenty of porpoises hanging out next to our boat. Also the weather conditions, oh yes ;) Wonderful weather, sunshine mixed up with a bit of fog rising above the mountains and then we didn't sail very far when we spotted our first whales, many big whales in this tour !! We had a minke whale love coupe, surfacing next to each other close to our boat and this is most likely cause we had a very sweet couple here on Andrea today to enjoy their honeymoon here in Iceland and the wahles. We had a real good tour and all together 6 minke whales really really close to our boat ~ all the time ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland October 23rd 12:55
We are just heading back to Reykjavik and can report another fine tour ~ We spotted 2 Minke whales and several Harbor porpoises and most of the time we spent just on one spot were we had fantastic moments watching our big whale at a close distance to our boat. Most of the timing keeping only 20 meters distance. We were able to see the black back and also the triangulate snout rising above the surface ~ also the sound of the animal breathing was fascinating to listen to, since the ocean kept silent, mirror like surface, very bright ~ so beautiful, the best weather to sail out ! Also the temperatures were excellent, fairly warm like past summer days ;) The Porpoises showed themselves also pretty close to us and we are so happy now enjoying the sail back home above the quiet sea ~
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Whale Watching Iceland October 22nd 12:55
Mirror smooth surface ~ beautiful ! The weather to day reminded us on past warm days, bright colours, no wind at all and a warm breeze above the ocean. We knew there are whales as well in this tour, sometimes one really can tell by the instinct and short look towards the sea. We sailed towards the same area were we spotted right away a blow of a huge, fully grown minke whale. The people that were with us on this tour brought lots of joy and good atmosphere, so we had fun all along this tour;) One little boy was very excited about the whales, dolphins and our boat, standing by the boa, by the under peak of our boat ~ dancing all the time when spotting a whale again, so cute ;) There was 2 minke whales and they remained all the time close to our boat, we were able to observe there black back and several times there triangulate snout rising first when they came up. Also we saw harbour porpoises, they surrounded our boat all along this tour and especially since the water were so silent we have gotten a fantastic few of them. And then.. we saw something jumping further out ~ withe beaked dolphins, soon they came close to our boat and they stayed with us all the time !!! It was absolutely breathtaking, cause they came so close to the boat, really really close. A wonderful day out on sea and yes, we saw lots of birds today, like gannets the most, plunging into the water hunting for fish, it was just great ~ now we are on our way back, gathering in our cosy coffeehouse looking out of the window with a big smile on our faces ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland October 22nd 08:55
We headed out beneath the morning clouded atmosphare, still it remained kind a dark blue all around the bay when sailing out and first sunbeams bruise itself trough the clouds, some very bright and some dark ~ just beautiful to start the day like that and actually we almost thought not to be lucky in this tour, but soon we discovered a blow further out and we had to wait and wait for the big morning whale to rise above the surface, gosch .. it took such a long time first and then finally our minke whale came up and then after that several times more ~ which gave us a good time to see it pretty well. Very soon after that we spotted 2 more minke whales and one time the beast came only 10 meters close to our boat, well this was something, yehhh , big creature, fully grown minke ! Then we saw harbour porpoises all around the boat and I mast say that was the most terrific sightings this morning, cause they moved so incredibly slow and birds were feeding all the time with them, right next to our boat ~ they were in no hurry to go anywhere ... yes yes, and the one dolphin we saw ~ just one dolphin rushing by our boat, we have no idea were it headed to and there was just this one individual out there, sweet !
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Whale Watching Iceland October 21st 12:55
We headed towards the feeding grounds, yes just like every day ;) But sometimes, some days are incredibly special, weather conditions are excellent and lots of whales out there, like to day ! The ocean looked so beautiful, like a mirror, some wind blowing from north, actually pretty cold, but thanks to the sunshine all along this tour we didn't had to froze, some happy thoughts, a hot chocolate .. and then not so long we had to sail ~ we detected a big blow, actually our captain did .. again, but soon as we arrived closer we discovered 3 more minke whales close to our boat, one individual surfaced only by 5 meters distance and one time spy hopping !! Wow !! We saw the animal heat sticking out the water and soon after that the big whale surfaced again, showing us it big open mouth which was quite spectacular to behold, together with the birds above the rising animal which were attempt to catch some of the whales nourishment. We took some nice fotos. We hang out by this area all the time and to day was a great whale watching day ~ we spotted up to 6 minke whales, some of them kept close to our boat and so we had the moments of observing there body's and movement fairly often, some more minke whales were further out, super ~ what a great tour we had to day ! And yes we saw harbour porpoises all the time next to our boat, the were so cute to day, making splashes and we saw many of them. Now the evening have arrived and we are almost home by the harbour, still out on sea ~ enjoying the nice silent weather, sail back home ~
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Whale Watching Iceland October 20th 12:55
To days tour was far more successfully then yesterday ;) Sunshine, no wind and almost mirror surface. Wonderful weather conditions to sail out and find whales and this time we didn't had to search for a long time. Our sharped eye captain spotted a blow right ahead our boat and when we finally reached the spot we detected a fine minke whale ~ this creature remained all the time with us, sometimes it took some distance and heading further out, but the good thing was, it never stayed for to long time under the water. We saw 2 more minke whales surfacing not far from our boat and one came close to our boat. All together a real fantastic tour and we had a good moment when we saw the big whale ;) having a sip of air, just about 10 meters close to our boat!!!! Harbour porpoises all the time along this tour as well !! We are so happy with this tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland October 19th 12:55
We had some fresh wind blowing our faces ~ when we finally spotted our first spices, we had to search for a really long time and then spotted a glimpse of a minke whale ahead of our boat. This individual actually came fairly close to our boat, but still it was difficult to have a good look at it. When we headed further we spotted a group of harbour porpoises which gave us a terrific time, only 10 meters close to the boat and then we saw withe beaked dolphins, we were really happy to have found them and all over sudden they just disappeared. Trough the weather conditions it was a bit hard to behold them and so we decided to hand all our passengers another ticket for free to come along with us again in fallowing days ~
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Whale Watching Iceland October 18th 12:55
Excellent weather conditions on this late October day. Sunshine all over the bay and the ocean looked just beautiful! We headed towards the feeding grounds, same directions as past days tours and were unbelievable lucky ~ our captain spotted the firs blow right ahead our boat, which took us some while to finally see the minke whale in full shape, but being patient .. just a little while ;) rewarded us, cause not only we saw this individual ~ all together in this tour we were lucky enough to have spotted 3 minke whales! One of them came really close and for some moment we were able to smell the beast, .. ahh yeh the bad breath of a minke, it stinks ~ what a fun to be out there to day and also saw the other 2 minke whales pretty close to our boat, about 20 meters the closest, count fantastic moments we take back home. On our way back we saw a small group of harbor porpoises and they also seamed good mooted ~ surfacing fairly close and actually remaining with us some time longer as usually for there behavior. Now we are passing our little yellow lighthouse ~ means we are back home, still the sun is shining all over, what a nice evening and we are just on time ;) Really great tour !
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Whale Watching Iceland October 17th 12:55
The sea was a bit moody but the sun was shining. We encountered a lot of birds in the bay, some of them were Gannets and all of a sudden a Minke Whale appeared but unfortunately this animal only surfaced twice and then decided to stay under water for quite some time....we kept on sailing, spotted more birds and everything looked promising but sadly we did not find more. We decided that this trip was not good enough and gave our guests an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale Watching Iceland October 16th 12:55
Today we saw 2 wonderful Minke Whales :) one of them did behave a bit shyly while the other one was quite active, surfacing constantly and sometime not that far away from our boat. We stayed with this animal for a while and observed his behavior while enjoying the sunshine in the bay. Once this animal surface in the sunshine "Perfect Picture". He was very visible and took all of his time to go down for a deep dive. A couple of times we saw the spout and at one point we were even able to smell this Minke Whale (famous to have a bad breath) lol :)
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Whale Watching Iceland October 15th 12:55
Amazing trip on a sunny day in Reykjavik! We had a lot of guests joining us today and the majority of them was on our top deck outside enjoying the sunshine :) Everyone looked at the surroundings and even the Snaelfells Glacier was visible...this wonderful view put a smile on our faces. Reaching our Whale Watching Area we encountered a group of Seagulls and it did not take long for a Minke Whale to surface but this animal was a bit shy and only surfaced twice. We kept on sailing and spotted a large group of Gannets hunting and the captain found a Minke Whale right there so we sailed closer to this point. This Minke Whale was very active, surfacing constantly and rolled over a few times...once we saw the flipper surfacing SO NICE :) he kept on approaching us, checking us out but after a while he got tired and left us. It was beautiful to see how all these animals were sharing there feeding ground....What a wonderful show in the Icelandic sunshine!
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Whale Watching Iceland October 14th 12:55
Lovely sunny weather :) ready to go out Whale Watching. We started our search for whales... which turned out to be a bit difficult today but we did not lose hope and found a Minke Whale. This animal was a bit tricky and just surfaced twice. We waited and waited for this animal to resurface before we decided to keep on sailing. That was a good idea and after some sailing time, we encountered another Minke Whale who behaved a bit like the previous one. No problem for us cos we were stubborn and convinced to find a Minke Whale who would be more active :) Good decision!!! We found one animal who surfaced quite often, giving us the chance to observe his behavior. This Minke Whale was very kind to us and when he went down for a deep dive, some Harbor Porpoises appeared :) pure joy! This little pod of Porpoises was very joyful and approached us a couple of times. Once we saw one animal swimming next to us and everyone was pointing in the water...EXCITING :) Successful and wonderful...sunny autumn trip today!
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Whale Watching Iceland October 13th 12:55
Trip was cancelled due to bad sea conditions, but for tomorrow we are confident it will be better ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland October 12th 12:55
Wonderful autumn day in Reykjavik... everyone was ready to see whales so we started our trip :) Today we had to sail out quite far until our captain spotted a Minke Whale..we stopped and were looking all around us to see this animal again. In front of us there was a big group of birds but the whale decided to stay under water and did not surfaced again (Minke Whales could hold their breath up to 20min...however, it is common for them to resurface after 3-5min) Anyway, we kept on sailing and sailing but it seemed to be a bit difficult to find anything else. Our guests were very patient and that sometimes pays off :) After a long period of sailing around we finally found another Minke Whale and this animal really behaved according to his diving pattern (surfacing 3-5 times before he went down for a deep dive) This animal was very kind to us and kept on surfacing :) Our passenger were very happy. On the way back to Reykjavik we encountered a little pod of Harbor Porpoises surfacing quite often and joining us for a while. The captain turned the boat a couple of times to keep track of them... Nice tour today :)
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Whale Watching Iceland October 10th 12:55
Rainy autumn day in Reykjavik and a bit stormy in the bay so we decided to sail out from Hafnarfjörður. We picked up our guest at our pier and drove them there. Our Whale Watching Boat was waiting in Hafnarfjörður and we were ready to go :) We were sailing and sailing...we did see some Gannets but this time they did not show us the way to the whales :( Unfortunately we did not see any whales on this trip and our guest got an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale Watching Iceland October 09th 12:55
We sailed out this afternoon to Faxafloi Bay, our whale watching area and the feeding ground of the whales. The first thing that we had spotted there was a large group of Gannets... were they maybe showing us the way to the whales ;) We trusted them and joined them for a while until all of a sudden a Minke Whale appeared. This animal surfaced a couple of times before he went down for a deep dive. Deep dives are normally lasting 3-5min so we just had to wait for this Minke Whale to resurface. In this waiting period some Harbor Porpoises visited us....they only joined us for some seconds, then they left us immediately. This is the typical behavior of the Harbor Porpoises (known to be rather shy animals) It was about time for the Minke Whale to appear again and there he was, only 15m in front of our boat and we even saw the spout very clearly. We stayed with this wonderful creature for some time until the whale decided to stay under water for a long time. We kept on sailing and unexpectedly 3 White Beaked Dolphins surfaced :) they were so fast and not curious about us that they left. We were running out of time and had to go back to Reykjavik. Nice trip :)
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Whale Watching Iceland October 6th 12:55
On the trip today we spotted a large group of Gannets hunting, throwing themselves from 30-40m into the water catching fish :) we thought that this was a good spot to stop and look for whales and all of a sudden a Minke Whale appeared :) This animal surfaced a few times and then decided to stay under water for awhile so we kept on sailing and found another Minke Whale who was behaving as the previous one. Unfortunately we were running a bit out of time and had to go back to Reykjavik.
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Whale Watching Iceland October 5th 12:55
What a wonderful sunny winter day in Reykjavik :) and almost a flat sea...these are already the best conditions to go out Whale Watching. We sailed to the feeding ground of the whales, Faxafloi Bay in which we had soon encountered our first Minke Whale for today. We stayed with this animal for awhile until the whale decided to stay under water for some time so we kept on sailing to find something else and this did not take long. We sailed for another 5min before we found another Minke Whale who kept on surfacing constantly. We were able to see the spout quite often and once in awhile this wonderful creature was approaching us. Twice it was rather close and we heard the noise that he was making ....goosebumps feeling :) Very nice trip today!
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Whale Watching Iceland October 3rd 12:55
Tour was cancelled due to bad sea conditions.
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Whale Watching Iceland October 2nd 12:55
Tour was cancelled due to bad sea conditions.
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Whale Watching Iceland October 1st 12:55
It is October and now we only sailing once a day at 12:55 and on our first trip for this month we encountered a Minke Whale who kept on surfacing a lot and we were able to study his diving pattern and behavior. Once in a while this animal appeared close to our boat. Nice trip today!
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Whale Watching Iceland September 29th 08:55
Sunny cold september day in Reykjavik :) We headed to Faxafloi, our whale watching area and the feeding ground of the whales. In this area we spotted a lot of Gannets hunting and stopped there. We started to look all around us and then a wonderful White beaked Dolphins appeared. Just one animal, quite uncommon to see only one dolphin but maybe his friends are not that far away ;) and right we were...we encountered more dolphins and some of them even approached us. They were checking us out and chasing us around but there were so many of them therefore it was not really difficult to keep track of them. One animal started to jump in the distances, a lot of splashing going on there. Beautiful sunny cold whale watching morning.
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Whale Watching Iceland September 29th 12:55
On this trip we did see two different species :) but first of all we found our big group of Gannets again. They were still hunting in the same area in which they were this morning and it did not take long to find a small group of Harbor Porpoises. They stayed with us only for a little while before they left. These little friends of ours prefered to come for a short visit today but as soon as they had left us, we found some White Beaked Dolphins. They checked us out and sometimes not that far away from the boat before they left us as well. They all seemed very busy this afternoon, most likely hunting ;) having lunch but it was nice of them to come for a visit :)
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No tours today, Friday September 27th at 8:55
Due to a strong wind - we have cancelled the 8:55 tour. Please call our ticket office for furtrher info . Tel + 354 562 2300
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Whale Watching Iceland September 26th 08:55
On our first trip today we sailed quite far out to find our wonderful Whales. Firstly we found a lot of Gannets hunting and that spot seemed to be good to stop and wait a bit. We were hoping that sooner or later a whale would appear there. Meanwhile we watched the Gannets throwing themselves from 30-40m into the water...very impressive :) and finally a Minke Whale surfaced. Twice we saw the spout very clearly followed by the animal. This Minke Whale was quite active changing directions....he was swimming towards us but then all of a sudden he had changed direction and kept on swimming away from us. One time he was only about 20m away from our boat and after that he went down for a deep dive. Unexpectedly we saw another spout further away and tried to find this animal on the way back to Reykjavik but unfortunately he did not appear again. Finally the sun is showing herself and we hope to that our next trip is going to be sunny and full of whales ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 26th 12:55
Wonderful trip today :) We spotted the group of Gannets from this morning again and stayed with them. It did not take long to find a Minke Whale sharing his feeding ground with Gannets and Northern Fulmars. This animal was quite active appearing constantly and kept on changing directions but we were able to keep track of him easily and sometimes this animal was only about 15m away from our boat...beautiful. Twice we heard the noise of the spout, an incredible noise giving you goose bumps :) All of a sudden a little pod of Harbor Porpoises showed up, joining us for a little while before they left...we stayed with the Minke Whale and observed this animal quite well. On the way back to Reykjavik we encountered the group of Harbor Porpoise again...this time approaching us, checking us out. What a nice ending of a beautiful trip!
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Whale Watching Iceland September 25th 12:55
we sailed into a grey cloud field and left the blue sky behind ~ but the weather remained unconditional beautiful, no winds and still calm sea surface and also the bright colours all around, especially of the ocean which always makes it much more easier to detect whales ~ so when we arrived I saw some of our tourists gathering on the upper deck for a nice sunbathing, some made them self lazy on the floor and one moment when I walked up the stairs the first thing I saw was the old men smoking its pipe ~ once again he stayed on our boat , he loves the ocean so much and then we offered him again another free trip , makes us happy to see our tourists happy. Actually he got with him a whole collection of pipes and some of our guests joined him smoking some old men pipe and watching the ocean ;)) First we spotted a group of withe beaked dolphins and they remained with us for some while and then far out we saw it ~ the big whale surfacing and its big black back ~ the whale was surrounded by greedy birds attempt to catch some of the whales nurture and when we've gotten closer to the whale we spotted another big minke whale further out, means we arrived by a feeding ground were lots of nourishment is present. One of the Mink's came really close to our boat and we were able to see the enormous big hoggish south of the animal raising above the surface and then the large slender body was to behold ~ fantastic moments in this tour . The big whale stayed all the time with us and we were able to observe it pretty well ~ after some while it remained all the time close to our boat by a distance of only 5 meters and a small group of Harbour porpoises we spotted on our way back ~ which made our tour just perfect, well yes and the Gannet's ~ beautiful birds and today we saw lots of them making there spectacular dives into the water from the air, plunging from high in the air, we loved it ~ really nice tour and even the sunshine was gone by the afternoon we enjoyed the silents of the ocean ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 25th 08:55
A few of haze set above the surface, covering the sight to the mountains around the fjord which made it a beautiful morning. When I arrived by the harbor our captain raised already the flag and fresh boats coffee was boiling ~ coffee flavour all over the boat, but not only that ~ the old men from yesterdays afternoon tour came back and the first thing he did was lightening its pipe and a huge smile all over its face when we started to sail towards the feeding ground. The weather remained changing with low drifting clouds and the patchy fog which were suffused by rays of sunshine , very bright color and so magical !! The big whale wasn't far ~ it only took us some little while until we spotted a medium sized minke whale surfacing about 40 meters distance to our boat. This individual remained for to long time under the water, sometimes showing itself and then again ~ to occupied on feeding this whale ;) We headed further where we saw some harbor porpoises here and there next to our boat ~ those little whale are very cute, especially once they come that close we are able to see there little robust body, small rounded head ~ one of the world smallest cetaceans!! Then we've gotten news from another boat of a big whale and just when we were about to leave our spot ~ a big huge minke whale showed up, really big creature. This individual were far more lively ~ surfacing several times and always close to our boat !! The old men smoking its pipe, sunshine, a veil of light brume, the ocean ~ as smooth as a mirror, the captain sipping its strong cafe, the old yellow lighthouse we are passing right now and in front a pot of jumping harbor porpoises, right now ~ and th e big morning whale, magical tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 24th 12:55
now when we've gotten boost by delicious lunch ( we have the very very best boss of Iceland !! ;) .. we headed into a new adventure, the weather is so incredibly nice to day ~ warm winds and calm sea conditions made our day just perfect for whale spotting ~ well, to day we should call it dolphin spotting then. Really nice sightings also in this tour, when we detected our group of with beaked dolphins again, we also saw them in our last tour . We had to search a bit until we found them, but then once we spotted them ~ all was fantastic, they came close to our boat and surrounded us all the left time we've had. When we sailed back to Reykjavik we've thought to see a glimpse of a minke whale surfacing not far from our boat ~ so we waited for some time, hoping the big whale might surface again, but most likely it was to occupied on feeding, remaining under the water. We had a rather funny atmosphere by our visitors to day ~ one men enjoyed the dolphins that much, smoking his old pipe and the spicy aromatic smell was all over the ocean;) Never had seen this before on our whale tours ~ now the first day of this week have come to end ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 24th 08:55
Monday morning, ready for a new whale week ;) Weather remained beautiful, not as cold as last week ~ which gave us a normal feeling joying the autumn here in Faxi bay. The ocean remained calm, very comfortable to sail out. We didn't sail for a along time, when we spotted a glimpse of a grey back and splashes further out, and soon we discovered a group of withe beaked dolphins surrounding our boat. They stayed with us for a long time, actually all the time in this tour ~ we were able to observe there robust body and white light colored beak!! Unbelievably close to our boat and there was a calf traveling with the mother as well, further we saw some individuals of the dolphins group jumping over and over again. All together a wonderful tour and now we have first sunshine arriving ~ looking forward to the second tour today :))
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Whale Watching Iceland September 23th 12:55
On the second trip today we spotted a lot of Gannets and they were hunting (that is always a good sign that there could be whales as well) it did not take long and some Harbor Porpoises came to us and said hi. It was only a short visit but then we found some White Beaked Dolphins :) Three of them got very close and they surfaced right in front of the boat... all of them at the same time and we saw theirs eyes so at this point it turned into human watching for them...so cool :)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 23th 08:55
This morning we went out to Faxafloi Bay, the feeding ground of the whales. Where we first encountered little Harbor Porpoises but they just appeared a couple of times before they left us so we kept on sailing and found some White Beaked Dolphins who seemed to be rather busy feeding. They stayed with us for a while and we saw them clearly, even the white stripe that they have on their body. We kept on looking for more and all of a sudden a Minke Whale surfaced not far away from our boat. We observed this beautiful animal for some time before we had to back to Reykjavik.
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Whale Watching Iceland September 20th 12:55
ohh the weather is just so unbelievably beautiful out there ~ now, when the afternoon have arrived the temperatures have increased and we see lots of our fine guests hanging out here on the upper deck sunbathing, enjoying the scenery and surroundings of Faxi bay. We have been unbelievably lucky to day ~ both tours wend successfully and we spotted a lots of different species, just now in this tour we've seen a minke whale, no , actually ..two minke whales and harbour porpoises surfacing underneath the sunshine , so beautiful. The porpoises just wend for a small moment of time ~ but the minke whales remained all the time surfacing around our boat. Alt though they kept great distance, being occupied on feeding we were really happy to see one of the creatures rising only 20 meters close to our boat and we were able to observe the " beast ;) " pretty well, the slender body, really powerful moment ! We saw the head of the whale and the blowhole and narrow pointed snout several times on the end of our tour. Well, being patient be rewarded ~ now we are heading back to the harbour , back home and some of our guest are nipple some sweets , sipping cafe and hot chocolate ~ but most of all, all of them are so thankfully and cheerfully , there is a nice atmosphere here ;) Right now we are passing the yellow lighthouse which is showing us the way home ~ a sunshine day .
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Whale Watching Iceland September 20th 08:55
This morning we still had sunshine all over the bay ~ although the temperatures keep dropping and we feel the power of mister winter arriving soon , well soon now ~ but our cosy boat kept us warmly , especially the big area by the coffeehouse and the lower part were right now some of our happily good mooted tourist sipping on our home made hot chocolate , listening to musik and some gathering on our upper deck listen to the sound of the ocean ~ there is a big smile all over the faces , yes we had a good morning tour, we've spotted a big, really big group of withe beaked dolphins. Actually, first we had to search for some time and the tour started up promising, when we spotted a big whale ahead our vessel, a beautiful minke whale surfacing several times at a distance of 30 meters ~ showing us its big greedy splitting maul, no ;) But we saw the pointed triangulate snout raising out of the water and the huge back of this animal , the " big whale " and by the same time and area we saw a group of harbour porpoises, underneath the reflecting rays of sunshine the color of there back were shining black and a twinkle with the every movemend of our yacht above the ocean ;) Beautiful , but the little creatures didn't came that close this time and then we sailed a bit here and there ~ searching for the lost minke whale, which most likely bail into the deep blue ~ a bit sad for only a moment , cause then a big morning surprise did happen. We detected a big group of withe beaked dolphins in front , nee actually all around the vessel , they surrounded the hole bay , boats , all and were to behold everywhere, some keeping a further distance and some incretebly close to our boat, talking of les then 2 meters ;) Some were jumping over and over again and some bow riding ~ which is there favourite activity , the group appeared on a rally big number, spread all over the bay. It seamed like they were all over and at least up to hundreds cetaceans ~ a beautiful morning , beautiful people and nature , wow ;) Incredibly tour ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 19th 12:55
this tour wend a tini bit different then our morning drive ;) We headed towards the same feeding grounds and over that bit of a time we missed to be out there ~ the ocean surface changed , small dancing waves and soft breezes of wind rising which gave the surface a more of a dark color ~ can be heavy to find the whale, to detect them. But soon we spotted a fine minke whale surfacing in front of our boat, we had to be very patient with that creature, big whale ;) Also our whale stayed for a long time under the water and then suddenly it surfaced only 10 meters close to our boat ~ our moment ! We were able to observe our whale fairly good. The pointed snout was to see and the dark grey colors on its back, really fantastic moment and then we had to sail back, time was us. Our sweet cheerfully tourists were sunbathing underneath the autumn sunshine ~ and some hanging out in our cosy coffeehouse feasting our yummy waffle with cream and fresh islandic blueberries .. mmm and home made captains cafe ~ homelike cosy tour ;) See you all again tomorrow out on sea ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 19th 08:55
wonderful weather conditions , lots of whales ~ a wonderful morning tour ! We have been so lucky with this tour and everyone incredibly happy ;) We started this morning kinda exciting cause first of all the weather conditions were really promising for to day ~ to enjoy one of the beautiful warmly autumn days. The ocean surface kept silent and there were no waves at all mirror like and we didn't had to sail far , well a bit ~ but really soon we spotted our first cetacean species , to day we've spotted altogether three different kinds !!! The fist whale was a big whale ;) a minke whale , and soon we figure there was another minke whale close by this feeding ground. Both of the minke whales kept a bit of a distance to our boat ~ but cause we remained patient after some while we had a great sighting ~ watching one of the minke whales incredibly close to our boat , yes !! Super , and the tour wend on being successful when we detected a small group of harbor porpoises only about 10 meters close to our boat , we saw there small rounded head and the grey colors of the world second smallest cetaceans , this time they came pretty close , wow . And the sunshine reflecting so beautiful above the water surface , but we are not finished here ~ we were just about to sail back home when a rather large group of withe beaked dolphins surprised us, they were to see far away making splashes and coming really close to the boat ~ really close ! We were almost able to touch them , oh what a nice tour ;) Now , after good lunch and pause we are heading out again , already .. contentedly happy ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 18th 12:55
at 12:55 We sailed far out to find some marine mammals. We encountered a little group of White Beaked Dolphins who was probably so busy hunting that they only surfaced twice and then left us immediately :( we kept on searching and found a Minke Whale who appeared a couple of times before he went down for a deeper dive and while we were waiting for this animal to resurface, we spotted a second Minke Whale a bit further away. The next time both of them surface at the same time one of them only 10m away from the boat :) We stayed a while with this animal before we had to go back to Reykjavik.
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Whale Watching Iceland September 18th 08:55
at 8:55 Sunshine in Reykjavik and the sea has calmed down :) perfect conditions to go out Whale Watching... In Faxaflloi bay we had to sail around for a while until we found a Minke Whale who appeared a couple of times before he left us, swimming into the sunshine. But we did not have to wait long until we found this animal again surfacing next to our boat :) nice and sunny trip!
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Whale Watching Iceland September 17th 12:55
at 12:55 On the second trip for today we spotted two Harbor Porpoise surfacing twice and unfortunately they left us immediately...sometimes they are rather shy. We sailed a little bit further out and found our Minke Whale from this morning again but this time he was not alone. We watched two different individuals and one of them was only 20m away from us. We stayed with them, studying their behaviour :)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 17th 08:55
at 8:55 The sea was a bit rough today but the sun was shining :) we countered a Minke Whale, sharing his feeding ground with Gannets and Northern Fulmars. This animal surfaced a couple of times but he was probably so busy feeding that he left us. We kept on sailing a bit and found a nice little group of White Beaked Dolphins 5-7 animals...travelling with a little one :) White Beaked Dolphins are very robust animals and prefer to live in cold waters. They do not immigrate south to give birth so sometimes we are lucky to see smaller ones being part of their group. Once in a while they approached us and we saw them clearly swimming in the water, surfacing in front of us. Very nice to observe their behaviour. On the way back we found the Minke Whale again appearing quite often before we had to go back to Reykjavik.
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Whale Watching Iceland September 16th 12:55
tour at 12:55 The second tour and last tour of this week we had great hope. We sailed to a different area from this morning and hoped now the luck must be with us in the feeding places of the whales. The weather conditions kept changing all the time and we actually had some sunshine in this tour, the cold wind left and it was much warmer, everyone kept on helping to search for the "big whale" ~ but there was no whale and we had to sail back to Reykjavik ;( Of course all of our brave passengers have gotten another complimentary ticket to come with us another time. Actually strong winds were blowing all week and it was sometimes difficult to sail out and find whales. Now we are hoping for a more sunshine week and lots of big whales ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 16th 08:55
tour at 8:55 Oooh, the weather became so cold over night and when we arrived this morning we had to jump into our warm overalls ~ a few sips of hot morning coffee and the we headed out into the morning haze. The color of the ocean remained dark blue which made it difficult to detect the whales, but in this tour, we have been searching all around the bay. In the end we handed our brave passengers another ticket for free to come along with us again for a better whale watching tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 15th 12:55
tour at 12:55 Well, now we had sunshine raising trough the low drifting clouds and we had to sail incredibly far and a for a long time to find the big whale and there it was , our big minke whale from yesterday , we recognized it by its smell and had a fantastic time with the creature. Several times it came only 10 meters close to the boat and we saw the big black back ~ this minke whale is extremely big, fully grown, actually one of the biggest minke whales I have ever seen! Everyone on our tour was happy and we also the weather remained all the time just beautiful ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 15th 08:55
tour at 8:55 This morning when we arrived by the harbor the weather still was silent and calm, the wind had left the bay ~ but it was really cold and to our surprise when we sailed all around the bay and there was no whales at all to find. ;( We searched everywhere, but this tour was a bit unlucky ;( We decided to hand all of our passenger another ticket for free to come along with us again in fallowing days ~ we hope to see all of our nice guests soon to show them a real big whale ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 14th 08:55
One of the best tours of this summer !!! Incredible tour and we are completely speechless ~ I don't know how to describe such beautiful moments we've witness this beautiful morning . A Minke Whale , so kingly big , I believe majestic is the perfect word to describe this unforgettably beauty ;) Everything came so well together , the magical morning haze covering the mirror surface , as smooth as glass ~ We sailed out into morning freshness , an dafter past " windy days ~ well stormy days now all becomes so silent , small drizzle of rain showers , gray colours and cold temperatures letting us tremble all over ~ this shoal pass soon when sunshine there will be a rainbow again " Imagine you sail trough the tight morning brume and then a beautiful Island arises in front of you .. , a bit blurred and then closer there we saw the lighthouse shining towards us and then we headed out into a morning adventure , sailing above the quit ocean , all so silent and beautiful. By looking at the ocean our instinct told us there is a big whale out there to day , something outstanding will happen , and so .. only after sailing for a little while we spotted a beautiful fully grown Minke whale , a whale with character ! It was our friend from one months ago , visiting us again , the same individual ~ This Minke Whale came very close to our boat , that close we were able to touch it !! Several time it was spy hopping , incredibly . The animal raised its triangulate head vertically from the water until the eyes were exposed and sometimes we saw the withe co-loured flippers shining trough the water surface . We saw the triangular shape of its head and also the blowhole , well , all of the whales body was to see pretty well , but mostly the head of this beauty !! The spy hopping lasted for all the time we were out there , , every time for about 15 to 30 seconds our cute whale was sticking its head out the water and truly .. it was looking at us .. you shoal have seen this !!!! This type of behavior , is common to many types of whales , but never seen it that characteristic !! Spy hopping is thought to have the purpose of scanning the surface for the whales to orienting themselves , but in this case our minke whale was just an really curious one ;)) This whale really made us so happy , there no other words to describe this tour . Thank you , what a wonderful morning tour , wonderful moments ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 12th 12:55
Kl. 12:55 On our second trip we encountered a big group of Gannets ( one of the largest sea birds in Iceland), birds are always a good orientation for us so we stopped there and hoped that sooner or later a whale would show up. The Gannets were hunting, throwing themselves from 30-40m into the water. Finally a Minke Whale appeared and it was amazing to see how the whale and the birds were sharing their feeding ground. By sailing around we found another Minke Whale who was pretty active, surfacing constantly only 10m from our vessel. One time he rolled over so we could even see the flipper and a bit of of the fluke...soooo nice, wondeful trip!!!
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Whale Watching Iceland September 12th 08:55
Kl. 8:55 The sea condition was great this morning and we sailed out to meet the wondeful whales. It did not take long and we found one Minke Whale who surfaced a couple of times and then went down for a deep dive. While we were waiting for this animal to resurface we saw some splashes in the distance :) one White Beaked Dolphin was jumping around ...unfortunately he was heading further out so we decided to stay with the Minke Whale who appeared again but all of a sudden the splashing started again and this time the Dolphin was swimming to us. It was so much fun to see this animal jumping and jumping...it seemed that he did not want to stop ;) this animal was obiously not alone (dolphins are group animales) and a whole group followed him. They approached our boat and started to play around. Some of them swam under the boat and were swimming very close to the surface of the water so close that we could see the whole animal and because of the white stripe on their body it was easy to keep track of them and to predict where they would surface again. We observed them a a long time before we had to go back to Reykjavik. On the way back we tried to find the Minke Whale again but unfortunately he was not there anymore.
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Whale Watching Iceland September 9th 08:55
What a fantastic start for a whale watching day! Right behind the harbour appeared a group of white beaked dolphins with many small animals. They were around 30 and had lots of fun with jumping and swimming around our boat. It was a pleasure to watch them. Afterwards we tried to find another whale and had to sail far out into the bay to spot finally a minke whale.
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Whale Watching Iceland September 9th 12:55
12 55 The last tour of this windy week ~ yes, when we sailed out it was quite some fun to sail high and down above the oceans waves. We haven't been so lucky with this tour and only were able to " detect " a glimpse of a single dolphin ;) Actually we searched for a long time and when we saw the dolphin ahead our boat we were so happy to finally have made a find ~ everyone became so excited and then the group of dolphins turn out to be only one single dolphin, all the others animals of the withe beaked dolphin groups disappeared by then ;( The tourists on this tour took it with a great humor and we had lots of fun on our way back to Reykjavik. We handed our passengers another ticket for free to come again with us when ever they like to ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 8th 08:55
08:55 A sunny day with quiet strong and fresh wind. After searching for more than half an hour we finally found a group of white beaked dolphins which were jumping and playing around in the water. They came very close to our ship and had a small calve with them. A beautiful moment so see white beaked dolphins so close.
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Whale Watching Iceland September 8th 12:55
Now the ocean calmed after this rather turbulent morning tour ~ big waves , up and down, so, this tour turnout out far more better by the weather conditions and we even had some sunshine . We sailed like always towards the feeding grounds and searched for some while , actually a long time and then we detected something black , a small glimpse and the second time when this creature came up we saw a really big whale ~ a minke whale , the same big whale we saw yesterday ~ we are able to recognize this individual by its behavior , surfacing only twice and a real bad smell that coms with the animal ;) This time our big friend came unbelievably close to the boat , we were able to see the withe colours of the underneath belly and how it rolled around under the water and then one time only 5 meters close to our boat , which made everyone up lout yelling for happiness, this was the moment ~ whale watching is all about the best moment ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 7th 12:55
12 55 incredibly lucky ! This tour turn out on of the best of past days , finally the whales are back in the bay ~ we are so happy ;) Our fist minke whale showed up , only after a short while searching and this one was a fully grown minke whale , once it came up to the surface , very close to our boat , only 5 meters and it swam alongside our boat which gave us a good moment to observe the animals pointed snout and black back , enormous moment ! We've seen 2 more minke whales feeding by this area , so all together we have spotted 3 minke whales and call this a perfect whale watching tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 6th 12:55
12 55 This tour went successfuly ~ cause we did find the big whale , yes we did ;) We sailed along the coast and towards an different area as earlier to day ~ we sailed trough all kinds of weather conditions, out here by the ocean the weather is changing constantly and this is so beautiful and a typical happening here in Iceland. The waves were really big, but not in an uncomfortable way ~ they came rolling like a huge carpet we are sailing on, up and down, like a waft above the ocean. Then, we almost have given up, cause there not many whales out there past days when it suddenly started raining, soft drizzle on our faces and when behold the few in front of our boat we saw the most beautiful rainbow raising above our boat, only our boat and then out of the blue ~ came a huge big whale surfacing towards our boat ! Incredibly moment and the big whale was a minke whale , fully grown animal showing itself several times and after shortly after that we spotted one more minke whale which appeared a bit smaller in its sizes , but came closer to our boat , only 20 meters distance . All of this happened so fast, 2 minke whales and one rainbow , well ;) , but we are really happy ~ cause we found the big whale ;))
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Whale Watching Iceland September 6th 08:55
8 55 We started our tour from the Hafnafoerdur harbour and the ocean conditions came out quite wild ~ waves took our boat for a fantastic swing up and down and when we took course towards Reykjavik the weather conditions calmed all of a sudden we had a almost mirror like sea surface and the scenery of the surroundings were incredibly beautiful . We have not found any whale in this tour and for that we handed our nice tourists ~ which were all the time helping to find the big whale ;) another ticket for free to come with us again in coming days for a better whale watching tour ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 5th 12:55
12 55 The second tour we sailed from another harbour, by the town Hafnafördur, a small town close to Reykjavik, we actually run greatly late on our last tour and we settled to turn into this harbour, also to stay close to the area were we've just been this morning ~ hoping to finally find the big whale there, yesterday we heard of a big whale hanging close to this area and we, we wanted to find this big whale, of course ;) We sailed all the way back ~ almost the end of the peninsula and we were not able to find any whale, actually we searched for a very long time and most of our brave tourists wend back to our homely warm coffeehouse, all of them gave up and actually I gave up to, when a women came up to me and asked "how do I find the whale?" and soon after she asked she found the big whale .. "there , there, I saw something , a huge back, over there ! " I thought she saw a big wave or something else, but when I looked exactly were she pointed a big creature raised above the foggy surface ~ large sleek body and a rather falcate fin, different from other whales we usually see, the colours were dark black and grey, the body long, kinda slender, we are almost certain this was a Sei whale, the big whale we heard of, which is hanging out in this area . . We only were able to see the big whale for a moment, it raised so powerful and fast, about 30 meters close to our boat that the mind picture we've gotten of this beauty have not left our memory's since, unbelievably .. wow ;) Every one came up, helping to find the big whale again ~ but we never saw the gigant again, gone and vanished into the deep blue ~ mystery ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 5th 08:55
8 55 This day began so beautiful when we arrived by the harbour, it still rained and it was raining all night, and then when we prepared our beloved fine boat, raising the flag and bringing fresh brewed cafe to the captains house ~ we were able to listen to the rain falling on the top of the boats roof while sipping our morning cafe, and then our first guests came into the warmed boat and soon we were ready to sail into the unknown, wide open sea. Yesterdays furious waves that made us stay home have calmed and with the falling rain and haze the ocean seemed lively and silent at the very same moment ;) Then when we left the harbour area our captain took a sharp turn to the right and we kept sailing close to ashore, passing the lighthouse grottuviti, and then the course took us along the Reykjanesbæ peninsula were we passed Gerðistangaviti next to the little country church by the ocean side, and when we arrived in Keflavik we were able to look all the way to Garður, the end of the peninsula were one of the most popular lighthouses blinks ~ Garður is a small commune with an population of only 1500 inhabitants, a beautiful town and then we finally spotted a group of the small whales, harbour porpoises and we didn't believe what we saw, this little creatures jumped and whirled making splashes, for a long time they swam close to our boat, incredibly moments, the porpoises were only a few meters ( less then 10 meters ) close to our boat, an quite unusually behavior of this kind of whale species, they were acting so lively and curious around the boat and when those little whales disappeared a huge colourful rainbow raised above the end of the peninsula, but then time called to go and we rellay had to sail back home, psst .. we handed all our passengers a free hot chocolate and strong home made captains cafe and of course a free whale watching ticket for another better tour with us ~ cause we haven't seen the big whale ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 3rd 08:55
the raining morning , freshening rain showers poring down on us and well .. we are real sailors , jumping into our warm clothes and ready for a very zappy adventure . We sailed far , just like past days and our first spot was a group of withe beaked dolphins which stayed with us for a fairly long time . We were able to see quit a lot of there colours even although the waves were a bit lively to day , beautiful out there ;) We didn't find the really big whale in this tour and for that we handed our passengers another ticket for free to come with us again this week or when ever they wish . This tour was kind of nice and the people really fun ~ fantastic atmosphere all along this tour and the weather kept changing , sometimes we sailed against the wind which made it difficult for us to look forward and then when we changed the course the weather was better to take , bit more mild and there was a veil of haze which gave the hole thing a good ocean spirit ~
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Whale Watching Iceland September 3rd 12:55
Our second tour to day ~ well, once again we had no chance to find the whales out there. But just when we left the harbour we saw a group of harbour porpoises not far from our boat ;) We got a good moment, when even though only a small moment ~ of those really need animals. The harbour porpoise is to be the most widespread and most commonly seen of all the porpoises around the world, it really bow rides or come close to the boats, its a rather shy behaving whale. We were able to see some slow forward rolling movements and the small conical head. We actually were surprised how well we could see them cause still the ocean remained a bit lively all along this tour, but in a nice atmosphere and everyone enjoyed the sailing although we have not spotted any more whales in this tour we were enjoying the scenery of the late summer atmosphere out there, hopefully soon we have again the big whales visiting our bay ~ we handed our brave searching guests another free ticket for a more fun whale watching tour in coming days, and there will be whales ~ they are just further out to find better nourishment and tomorrow they will be back home, youll see ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland September 2nd 12:55
2.9. 12 55 Finlay we were able to sail again ~ after past days storms we were ready for the sea and we could feel the under waves, which gave us an really spark on the move, a swing above the surface. Wonderful feeling, some of our guests were standing by the front of our boat enjoying the wonderful sailing out into the feeding grounds. We found a minke whale at the very beginning of our tour and had a fantastic time observing the animal when it surfaced twice next to our boat ~ our minke whale remained for a long time under the water and just showed itself several times more ~ which made us decide to sail a bit further were we found another minke whale , we saw the animal a few times alongside our boat and then it disappeared into the deepth of the ocean ;) The end of our tour we
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Whale Watching Iceland August 31st 12:55
31.8. 12 55 We sailed quite far and weather conditions changed even worse then on our morning tour , when we finally reached the whale area we thought to have seen a minke whale and also one of our crew members have seen a blow further out . The same happen several times and we were never really able to find a whale close to our boat or seeing a good prospect of it . We sailed back home and handed our brave passengers, that helped all along this tour to find the whale, another free ticket to come with us on a better day again . It wasn't only the weather conditions, actually they remained quite stable, but regarding the full moon the oceans stream taking the fish and nourishment further out and the whales changing there directions and distances in travelling further for several days ~ this might be one explanation for not having seen much whales around this day .
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Whale watching Iceland August 30th 08:55
Our first tour this morning wend quit unlucky ;( We started to sail out in good hope and actually we've spotted twice a minke whale and then it never came up again ~ we waited for a pretty long time and then sailed further out where we heart of a group of white beaked dolphins hanging out close to our boat and when we finally arrived at the spot they were gone . We kept on searching all the way home but our luck was not mend to be in this tour . Of course we handed all of our passenger another ticket to come along with us for free in fallowing days ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 29th 16:55
We are now sailing back home and in our back the sunset , so beautiful ! The atmosphere to late hour out here is breathtaking and many of our tourists enjoying the outside deck ~ it have gotten a bit more cold then on other days , but therefore we have our warm overalls which we are offering here on our fine boat for everyone ;) To be honest , we had to search for almost 2 hours to find the big whale , we sailed along the mountains close to the fjord and the few was just beautiful . Actually we didn't believe much finding a whale after sailing for 2 hours ~ but suddenly out of the blue a big blow was to see , our captain spotted this great creature which turn out to be a cute minke whale . The animal came several times close to our boat but then the rolling night waves took the creature and it was never seen again ~ but we saw the big whale , we find it ! Now the full moon is showing in its full power , beautiful .. beautiful . time to say good night to the big whales and the mystical ocean ~ looks like every bit of nature around the bay already wend to sleep , dark blue colours and ... yes lots of rainbows to day , just forgot to mention ;) ... good night ***
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Whale watching Iceland August 29th 12:55
Our second tour was successful , still beautiful weather and sea surface was calm ~ differently then yesterdays tour ;) We sailed above the mirror like ocean and then not far from the area we spotted a beautiful minke whale , medium sized animal which surfaced pretty close to our boat all the time . We spent lots of time there and once the whale came only 10 meters close , beautiful moment ! We saw harbour porpoises as well , because the surface was incredibly calm we had a great time observing them ~ they are so small and cute animals . When we sailed further out a breeze of the cold west wind blowed towards us which was so cold .. rrr , but a good sip on our hot chocolate made us dream of warm places ;) Nice tour !
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Whale watching Iceland August 28th 08:55
Rather turbulent this tour ~ over night a strong wind rolling from north overtook our bay , not even that the wind took my morning cafe of my hand !! Yes ;) and then my beloved hat , taken by the raging sea ~ bravely we started this tour sailing towards the feeding grounds , but since the wind blow with great cockiness we decided to sail close to ashore which wasn't so bad , cause yesterdays big whale we detected just by this area . We sailed around the islands from time to time we were washed of by splashy waves , showering us into the day ~ all so called the morning showering , waves for waves shake ;) When finally arriving by the mega whale spot we stooped our big boat Andrea to investigate the neighbourhood , our front side informer detected only waves and came running to the back completely sodden and washed by a big zappy wave and when we send the second front men , he didn't even made it back .. we then decided to sail back to the harbour quickly and gave some of our passengers a new ticket for another whale tour , refund money and a bonus bus tour through the beautiful Reykjavik city , guided by our super sailor Katrina , the people were so thankful and happy with all , most of all ~ we have had some great adventure and a fun tour to remember (()) p.s. the second front men got saved by a submarine ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 27th 08:55
Monday morning ~ a new week ahead of us and this tour was very succesful ! We spotted all together 3 minke whales and a group of white beaked dolphins very close to our vessel , all of them. The spot we found the whales this morning was a different area , close to Hvalfjordur . The weather appered beautiful and this gave us even more of a fantastic spottings further out . One of the minke whale surfaced only 10 meters distance and also the white beaked dolphins surfaced pretty close to our vessel ~ which is usual behavier for this species. A really nice tour to start this week. French: Une nouvelle semaine a commencé et tout est si nouveau, mais vide. le soleil a brillé quand nous sommes arrivés yum port et qui était très encourageant ~Les montagnes qui entourent la baie de lumière dans des couleurs différentes, «le monde nous appartient», nous avons vu 3 grandes baleines et des dauphins. le groupe français était très gentil et nous a aidés à trouver les baleines. Le groupe a un style de paris maison et m'a lu traemen de la ville de l'amour . merci pour cette belle visite ~ de la maternelle autre ~ et le drame et l'humour de tout cela et les belles histoires, des souvenirs.
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Whale watching Iceland August 27th 16:55
Last tour and incredibly fun guests on this tour from all around the world ~ all together we've spotted lots of whales and the first minke whale we saw very close to land , just like in our last tour . This creature was kind of small and not fully grown and when we sailed further we spotted 3 more minke whales , one real big and underneath the most beautiful evening sun the minke whale surfaced only 5 meters distance close to our boat . Then we sailed back home to the harbour ~ ready to say good night to the ocean and big whales ~
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Whale watching Iceland August 27th 12:55
Really nice tour ~ different then then the others , this one was exciting and quit " moving " , cause this time the whales hang out fairly close to ashore and we didn't hat to sail far out to find them . We sailed further and there we found our first minke whale which we gave some time to be with us ;) But then we heart of many other whales close to land and so we skew the boat around , sailed back to the harbour area and there we've spotted 4 more minke whales ~ all of them came very close to our boat , well almost. One minke whale only kept 10 meters distance and it was perfect sighting . We are really happy with this tour and also our nice tourists ~
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Whale Watching Iceland August 26th at 12:55
The sun was still shining and we welcomed a lot of nice guests who were ready to see some whales. We sailed out and it did not take long to find our first Minke Whale. This animal was pretty active and kept on surfacing...in the same area we found another one so we were watching two Minke Whales at the same time. We stayed with them for some time before we decided to look for something else but after the Minke Whales we did not find anything else.On the way back we enjoyed the beautiful panorama and the sunshine :)
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Whale Watching Iceland August 26th at 08:55
What a wonderful sunny day in Reykjavik :) on the way to our Whale Watching Area we encountered a group of White Beaked Dolphins and they welcomed us by jumping around GREAT!!! After that they kept on surfacing constantly rather close to the boat and they had 2 little calves in their group...one time the little one just surfaced about 5m in front of our boat. Always nice to have Dolphins around :) We kept on sailing a bit before we saw a Minke Whale who appeared often and sometimes even next to the boat. On the way back we met a little group of Harbor Porpoises so we observe 3 different species today :) very successful :)
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Whale Watching Iceland August 25th at 12:55
Also our second trip was unforgettable :) We started the trip with a Minke Whale surfacing quite often joining the hunting Gannets who were still there and after that we encountered a group of White beaked Dolphins, some of them were jumping and did not want to stop as we observe these wonderful animals we saw that this was a big group (hard to say how many animals) having even two calves travelling with them. We stayed with them for some time and once in a while they started to jump again and our guest on board got very excited :) also the little calf was pretty active approaching us, jumping and right before we had to leave this amazing group, the little one was splashing water with the tail (looked like waving) ;) Incredible...today was baptized as the "International Jumping Day" so keep on jumping, you beautiful marine mammals.
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Whale Watching Iceland August 25th at 08:55
What an amazing trip :) we sailed out to Faxaflói Bay, our whale watching area where we saw a lot of Gannets flying around (largest sea bird in Iceland) we watched them hunting, throwing themselves from 30m to 40m into the water to catch their prey. All of a sudden one Harbor Porpoise showed up, surfaced twice and left us immediately. After that we found one Minke Whale who surfaced a couple of times and then stayed under water for some time. We kept on sailing in this area and encountered another Minke Whale who behaved similar to the previous one but suddenly one Minke Whale started to breach (jump) AMAZING and he did not want to stop...kept on jumping about 4 times before he was a bit exhausted. After that he surfaced quite often :) We say Thank You Very Much Minke Whale you were wonderful :)
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Whale Watching Iceland August 25th at 16:55
On the last trip for today we soon encountered a Minke Whale who surfaced quite often and most of the times we saw the blow which could get up to 3m. On the way back we found one tiny Harbor Porpoise all by himself swimming rather slowly so everyone enjoyed seeing him.
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Whale Watching Iceland August 24th at 16:55
This time we did not have to sail far out ...we found our first Minke Whale not that far away from the Islands which are in Kollafjörður in front of the coast of Reykjavik. They kept on surfacing and sometimes closer to our boat only about 10m away. We were watching about 4-6 different animals :) very nice tour!
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Whale Watching Iceland August 24th at 12:55
On this trip we saw 2-3 Minke Whales who appeared once in a while. They seemed to be quite busy feeding and prefered to stay under water but everyone was able to see these animals clearly :) One Minke Whale surfaced right in front of our boat while we were on the way back to Reykjavik...what a surprise not only for us, also for the whale.
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Whale Watching Iceland August 24th at 08:55
We found a Minke Whale who surfaced once in a while but obviously prefered to stay under water. We left this animal and kept on sailing...all of a sudden we encountered a little pod of Harbor Porpoises appearing next to our boat but they left us immediately (common behaivour) A bit further out we saw another Minke Whale, also this animal was behaving like the previous one...while waiting for this animal to resurface we spotted a group of White beaked Dolphins in the distant. The dolphins were amazing, surfacing constantly close to our boat, we saw them even clearly in the water swimming so close to the surface of the water. One of them started to jump about 5 times in a row only about 30m away from our boat :) Wonderful Trip!!!
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Whale Watching Iceland August 23rd at 16:55
This time we did not have to go out far just a bit further than Engey (one of the Islands in Kollafjörður, right in front of the coast of Reykjavik) where we found our first Minke Whale. This animal kept on surfacing and on surfacing. Sometimes quite close to the boat so we were listening to the noise he was making...amazing to hear this animal breathing. This animal was not alone around him about 3-4 different Minke Whales but further away from our boat. On the way back we stopped at Puffin Island where we saw about 3-5 Puffins ... it is pretty obvious that the majority of them has left the country already.
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Whale Watching Iceland August 23rd at 12:55
On the second trip today we found two Minke Whales who surfaced sometimes and then prefered to stay under water for quite a bit but we were very patient and saw them surfacing again.
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Whale watching Iceland August 23th 08:55
On our first trip today we found one Minke Whale who surfaced a couple of times and then decided to stay under water for quite some time so we kept on sailing and encountered another Minke Whale who behaved similiar to our previous one. After that we saw two Minke Whales who surfaced constantly and one of them was pretty active half jumping at one point :) the last minutes he surfaced next to our boat and we could hear him breathing :)
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Whale watching Iceland August 22th 12:55
By now the clouds have liftet and we still have best conditions out in the bay. Once again we had 2 minke whales and several porpoises. Also in this tour a great gannet visited us; flying close to our heads. What a magnificent bird. Now the second minke we observed is a juvenile animal and becomes more and more attacted to our ship. Great to see the whale "shipwatching". After a long time by the whale we sailed a bit further to see, weather there is more to see. in bright sunshine we sailed back to the capital of Iceland.
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Whale watching Iceland August 22th 08:55
We headed out in the calmest sea condition possible. Luckily we found some puffins right by the islands before sailing out to faxaflói. Soon we found our first minke whale. This animal was feeding a lot and diving for long periods. As we decided to turn the ship to continue searching for further whales a group of harbour porpoises appeared. About 6 to 8 porpoises played around the ship and speeded up and startet jumping! A bit further we found another big minke whale. Now we had the chance to observe this large animal in a close distance.
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Whale watching Iceland August 22th 16:55
In the eveningtour we had once again best weather! As soon as we arrived in the feeding grounds of the whales we discovered a minke whale. But it did not take long and a second one showed up! Since the animals kept close distance to each other nd one was about 6 to 7 meters while the other was about 9 to 10 meters we are sure to have a minke mother and calf around. Nice to observe the curiosoty of the juvenile whale. They accompanied us almost the whole tour. NICE! On the way back we also spotted some harbour porpoises. The nicest birds on the tour were great gannets but also we had a few puffins, guillmots, fulmar, kittiwake and arctic turn. A colourful sunset in the way to the harbour completed a wonderful adventure in the bay!
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Whale watching Iceland August 21th 08:55
We did see some Puffins yesterday and decided to keep on sailing to Puffin Island, to show our guest these lovely colourful birds.We soon encountered a Minke Whale who surface a couple of times but kept on swimming away from us so we left this animal alone and found another Minke Whale who appeared more often. All of a sudden a little group of White Beaked Dolphins showed up, being very busy hunting so they were not that curious today. On the way back we found 2 Minke Whales surfacing at the same time and one animal approached us and we saw that he had a white spot on his lower back, he was only 5m away. While we were watching the Minke Whales some Harbor Porpoises surfaced all around us at least 10 of them ...2 of them were swimming together while the other once were just by themselves. What a nice trip :)
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Whale watching Iceland August 21th 12:55
On this trip we saw 3-4 different Minke Whale but most of them were quite busy feeding and prefered to stayed under water for quite some time. We found one Minke Whale who was surfacing more often and another one who kept on swimming away from the boat... We saw those animal clearly and at one point some Harbor Porpoises joined us while we were waiting for the Minke Whales to resurface. Very nice to watch these small ones :)
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Whale watching Iceland August 20th 16:55
We sailed out to our Whale Watching Area where we encountered one Minke Whale, we stayed a bit with this Minke Whale until we kept on sailing to find another Whale Species. What we found was another Minke Whale who did not want to stop surfacing and also close to our boat :) it was amazing to just listen to this animal...to hear how he was breathing :) wonderful trip!!!
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Whale watching Iceland August 20th 12:55
On this trip we found two Minke Whales, one of them closer to our boat while the other one was further away and still a lot of Harbor Porpoises around :) these little ones were quite active today and not as shy as they normally are.
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Whale watching Iceland August 20th 08:55
We started this trip at Engey, our Puffin Island for today where we stopped for the last time this summer :( The majority of the puffins has already left Iceland so now we have to wait until the next summer and we say takk fyrir sumarið (thanks for the summer) ;) In Faxafloí we encountered a lot of Harbor Porpoises and found one Minke Whale who kept on surfacing constantly. Very nice to watch this animal and everytime when the Minke Whale went down for a deep dive we were looking at all these Harbor Porpoises around us. All of a sudden a little group of White beaked Dolphins showed up as well and they were chasing us a bit around, appearing in front of our boat and then in the back ;) Very nice trip...good weather and a lot of Whales and Dolphins.
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Whale watching Iceland August 19th 08:55
Wonderful morning tour ~ we had it all , withe beaked dolphins , a big whale ;) , and harbour porpoises ~ all creatures very close to our vessel ! The ocean looked beautiful dark coloured and a soft breeze of wind , morning rains drops and the sunshine ;) Last summer days here in Iceland. First we visit the puffin island and there we have seen many birds , first of all the Puffins and we were surprised , cause still there were plenty of Puffins , enough to have a great time to observe them , also we've seen a few shags , gulls and Eider ducks gathering by the Island and the lighthouse showing us the way out , we didn't sail far ~ when we spotted a group of withe beaked dolphins which approached our boat fairly close , only few meters distance and we saw there bright colours shining trough the water surface , fantastic ! Further we've spotted our first big whale , a minke whale and then , this time it wend so fast , this beauty came really close to our boat . Many moments when the Minke whale approached our boat and we were able to see the triangulate formed snout raising above the surface first , and the black huge back and and and wonderful , the withe beaked dolphins remained all the time near by and we've seen harbour porpoises , a small group and they came very close ! Harbour porpoises are the worlds smallest cetaceans with a small robust body and we were able to see it so well ;)) People on this tour were really joyful and a warm , funny atmosphere , listen to music and sipping on hot chocolate , very nice tour ! Une visite très agréable, nous avons vu les différents ligands whale et les gens étaient tellement chaud ici, comme plaisantait beaucoup, vu des dauphins et des baleines très près de notre bateau. elle était très belle là-bas juste là. Maintenant il est temps de courir à nouveau bientôt et la Saine et de manquer l'océan pendant un certain temps;) Danke an alle netten gäste in dieser tour , es machte so viel spass ! Wir sahen viele walarten und alles zusammen eine so schöne tour . Bis bald liebe gäste ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 19th 12:55
really nice tour ~ we didn't had to sail far out into the bay this time , cause just when we reached , well passed the lighthouse we spotted two minke whales , one of them gave us really a fantastic time . The minke whale surfaced only 5 to 10 meters distance to our boat , it approached us from all sides of the boat . We were able to see the animal so beautifully , the whale moved incredibly slow and every time when it came up to the surface we had something to look and joy ;) Wow this tour was really nice and actually this day and yesterdays tours as well , we are incredibly lucky those days ~ by the end of our tour visited the bird island and there we've seen still a few puffins ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 19th 16:55
Once again we have come to the end of this week ~ incredible how quickly the weeks past and we have one of the best tours of this season . Now when we look back , the beginning of this week we joined a group of about 150 Long finned pilot whales , resting close to our boat and we were able to listen to a whistle sound of many whales communicating , unforgettable and just yesterday , one of the very best ~ a minke whale , a only one like whale of spacial attention , spy hopping all the time and " eye contact " yes ;) Our guests and also our crew members keep yesterdays tour close to there memory's , moments that cant be forgotten . Well and how wend the last tour of this week , just nice . This time the minke whale that we spotted close to ashore on our last tour , wasn't to find by that spot anymore and we had to sail very far , but we loved it ! The evening colours of the ocean and mountains , the constant changing dark blue evening colours , last sunbeams raising trough slow drifting clouds , lat the shadows of beautiful lights thrown on the mountains and then we spotted a group of withe beaked dolphins close to our boat and if we wouldn't find the big minke whale ( yes we found the big whale ;) and sailed away , they still would remain with our boat , the dolphins stayed all the time close to our boat and then our minke whale raised only 5 meters close to our boat and .. several times . All the time this big minke whale surfaced pretty close and gave us a wonderful time and then we said good night to the whale ~
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Whale watching Iceland August 18th 08:55
One of the best tours ever !!! Incredible tour and we are completely speechless ~ I don't know how to describe such beautiful moments we've witness this beautiful morning . A Minke Whale , so kingly big , I believe majestic is the perfect word to describe this unforgettably beauty ;) Everything came so well together , the magical morning haze covering the mirror surface , as smooth as glass ~ We sailed out into morning freshness , first stop by the puffin island ~ Imagine you sail trough the tight morning brume and then a beautiful Island arises in front of you .. , a bit blurred and then closer there we saw the lighthouse and a few Puffins , they even came close to our boat and we've gotten a perfect prospect on our little friends . By looking at the ocean our instinct told us we didn't had to sail far , and so .. only after sailing for a little while we spotted a beautiful fully grown Minke whale , a whale with character . Never I have experienced this , only with Humpbacks , but this Minke Whale came very close to our boat , that close we were able to touch it !! Several time it was spy hopping , incredibly . The animal raised its triangulate head vertically from the water until the eyes were exposed and sometimes we saw the withe coloured flippers shining trough the water surface . We saw the triangular shape of its head and also the blowhole , well , all of the whales body was to see pretty , but mostly the head of this beauty !! The spy hopping lasted for all the time we were out there , , every time for about 15 to 30 seconds our cute whale was sticking its head out the water and truly .. it was looking at us .. you shoal have seen this !!!! This type of behaviour , is common to many types of whales , but never seen it that characteristic !! Spy hopping is thought to have the purpose of scanning the surface for the whales to orienting themselves , but in this case our minke whale was just an really curious one ;)) Wow , we need moments like that ~ never forget this moments we've had out there this morning . Everyone of our crew saying that never they have seen a whale behaving like that , and some of our crew members are on sea since 40 years ! It love to go on , but some moments are that magical ~ it is impossible to behold them in words , they remain just within our memories ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 17th 16:55
This tour wend just as nice like our second tour to day ~ we had to sail pretty far out to find the big whale and we found it ;) A big beauty that remained all the time close to our boat . We saw it surfacing a lot and the nice minke whale kept distance of 40 meters or less , all the time . We've gotten a perfect picture of it when it surfaced with its black back once very close alongside our boat , nice creature . Then the sun wend slowly down and the ocean darkened , soft wind raised and we told our big whale good night ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 17th 12:55
Second tour , minke whales and white beaked dolphins ;) We headed very far to find the whales in this tour . The weather really changed nice and so we had some of our guests having a great time on the upper deck , just a wonderful atmosphere ;) But we had to be patient and search for some good while until finding a group of white beaked dolphins which came pretty close to our boat and stick around with us for quit a while , further we spotted our first minke whale , when we came finally closer , this creature remained under the water and then something incredible happened ~ we spotted another minke whale even further and when we started to sail there , the white beaked dolphins traveled next to our boat with us , fantastic tour and great weather !
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Whale watching Iceland August 17th 08:55
we had a really nice tour ~ weather remained smooth and sunshine made the bay look just beautiful . We headed out towards the same area like yesterday , but this time we found lots of feeding minke whales , not far away from our boat . We had them surfacing all around and one minke whale came really close , most of the time only 10 meter distance , we saw all the black body and even a bit of the withe belly shining trough the mirror smooth surface . There were harbour porpoises as well , a medium sized group and usually they are more elusive and don't like to come close , but also this species cam incredibly close to our boat and we can call this a happy tour . Guess what ~ we still saw some puffins by the island , the season to stop there is finished since the 2 days ago , but we had such a good tour by the whales and left time ~ which made us decide to have a small stop by the island and there we saw many birds , also eider ducks , well yes and quit many puffins for this season ;) Now we are back to the harbour , our crew had some great pause and we cant wait to sail out there again ~
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Whale watching Iceland August 16th 16:55
Unfortunately this trip started like the last trip but all of a sudden we encountered 3 little Harbor Porpoises approaching our boat and we could see them clearly in the water. They stayed only for a short time and left...after that we did not find anything else and decided that this trip was not good enough and gave our guest an extra ticket for free so they can join us again.
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Whale watching Iceland August 16th 08:55
This morning it was very foggy, so foggy that it was hard to see Engey our Puffin Island but we were able to find some Puffins . As we sailed to Faxafloi the weather got better and we found one nice Minke Whale who surfaced constantly and sometimes not so far away from our boat. We stayed with animal for a while until we decided to look for another Whale Species and encountered two little Harbor Porpoises. They just surfaced a couple of times and left us immediately. We kept on sailing between the fog clouds which were still in the bay and the sun started to shine ..very mystic.
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Whale watching Iceland August 16th 12:55
On the second trip we were looking and looking, searching, sailing, searching and sailing but unfortunately we did not find anything and therefore we gave our guest an extra ticket for free so they can come and join us again.
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Whale watching Iceland August 15th 12:55
On the second trip for today we encountered a Minke Whale who was surfacing very slowly taking all of his time to appear which was wonderful for us see. Our passengers had enough time to take a good picture. While we were observing the Minke Whale, some Harbor Porpoise appeared in the distance. We stayed with the Minke Whale for some time until we kept on sailing to find something else. It did not take long to find the next Minke Whale and on the way back we stopped at Engey our Puffin Island where we saw a larger group of Harbor Porpoises, 3 of them surfaced while we were watching the Puffins...how nice to have whale watching and bird watching at the same time and same spot :)
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Whale watching Iceland August 15th 08:55
We soon found some Harbor Porpoises who just surfaced twice and then left us immediately. They are known to be shy animals, so we kept on sailing and encountered one Minke Whale who was surfacing constantly and sometimes closer to the boat once so close that we heard this animal and were listening to his breathing. All of a sudden we spotted splashes in the far distance and saw that those were White beaked Dolphins, a group of 5-6 animal and even a little calf in the group. The calf got very curious and approached our vessel and the other onces followed to protect the little one. They surfaced quite often next to the boat. Wonderful trip...3 different Whale Species and this trip ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland August 14th at 16:55
Last tour today ~ this time we made a minke whale journey , nice . the evening sun shined above the silent ocean and still mirror smooth surface and so bright that we were able to behold the whales pretty fast . Our first spot wend for a group of harbour porpoises and they actually kept close to the boat and we saw all of there little importance ;P They are just cute ;) We sailed further and there we found a nice beautiful minke whale surfacing out there ~ all alone , we sailed closer .........
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Whale Watching Iceland August 14th at 12:55
What a wonderful tour ~ magnificent , unforgettable , we are so happy . Long ~finned pilot whales are back and were resting really close by our boat . The " Pilots " are back here in our Bay ~ Yay !! ;) Cause just about one week ago this group were seen by the southwest Iceland and ran into difficulties , a group more then 200 Long ~finned pilot whales, and also only about two weeks ago we've spotted them by Akraness , but far from our boat , there they gathered close to shore , incredible close , so they needed help of volunteers who steered them back towards the open sea , the same ..........
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Whale watching Iceland August 14th 08:55
The morning weather condition really looked perfectly and we sailed out towards the whale area ~ full speed ahead to find the big whale . Morning sunshine cam trough the low drifting clouds and performed beautiful bright colours by the mountainsides which gave our passengers a good moment to take the perfect picture . We didn't had to sail very far when we spotted our first minke whale ~ the first and only one that gave us a good time ! The animal cam really close several times and we saw it fairly good . We stayed around the beauty for some while and then time was to sail back to the harbour area and the Puffins ;) A very relaxing tour , nice weather and a friendly minke whale that stayed with us for some while ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 13th 12:55
Our second tour was great ~ we did not have to sail far out and find immediately our big whale ;) A huge , big, fully grown Minke whale was to see , near to the harbour . We really didn't had to sail far out in this tour . The mInke whale came very close to our boat and we could see it incredibly well , also hear how it was breathes when it surfaced over and over again close to our boat . First it kept some distance , but soon after some while the animal came incredibly close . It was just wonderful ~ because even the weather cam so well now at the afternoon , smooth as a mirror appeared the surface , soon the rain stopped and only very light mist on the horizon was to see. We stayed with our big whale ~ watching determines a whole hour and then we sailed a little around the islands and to the puffins, we have not seen many puffins ~ which is normal because the season is almost over now. Wonderful tour, super weather ~ this week is supposed to be really good weather again , the perfect sunshine week ;))
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Whale Watching Iceland August 13th at 8:55
Once again a new week have started and we are ready for the big catch ;) First when we left the harbour there wasn't much rain and the weather seamed so beautiful , still is ;) But later out on the bay we had lots of rain showering over us , we guess newly fresh for this week , awakening us . But finally the wind .............
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Whale watching Iceland August 13th 16:55
The evening tour wend perfectly too ~ we had so many visitors , more then the lunch tour and headed straight out into the feeding grounds of the whales . the atmosphere on this trip , on the boat was just terrific ! Very good mooted visitors from all around and we had so much fun , unforgettable trip . Sometimes everything coms together just right and even on our way back we talked and laughing and laughing until crying ;) And yes we found the big whale ~ a sized minke whale that came after some while close to our boat showing us its beautiful black back and it was incredibly nice ~ the ocean surface remained in bright colours and mirror smooth all day which is perfect to detect whales and see them pretty well . I think we strayed with this beautiful animal for a long time and also for one moment we thought to spotted another minke whale further out . A group of harbour porpoises and many sea birds came along the way ~ and on the end we stopped by the puffin island . Now we have only 2 more days to go and the puffin season will be finished .. ohhh . fantastic trip , thank you to the nice happy people ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 12th 08:55
Unfortunately we did not see any whales on this trip and gave our guest an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale watching Iceland August 11th 16:55
Unfortunately on our last trip we did not see any whales so we gave our guest an extra ticket for free.
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Whale watching Iceland August 11th 12:55
We sailed to Lundey our Puffin Island on this second trip where we saw quite a lot of Puffins, some of them were even flying around us. In our Whale Watching Area we saw some Gannets hunting and all of a sudden at their hunting spot, a Minke Whale surfaced we stayed with this animal and observed him for some time before we went back to Reykjavik.
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Whale watching Iceland August 11th 08:55
This morning we sailed from Reykjavik again and started our trip at Engey to visit the Puffins. It did not take long to find the first Minke Whale today and we saw this animal surfacing a couple of times before he decided to stay under water for a while so we kept on sailing to find another one or another whale species. We sailed for some time until we encountered another Minke Whale and all of a sudden we saw a nice little group of White beaked Dolphins in front us, about 4-5 animals. They seemed to be rather busy feeding and kept on swimming away from us. Once one animal came a bit closer...lovely to see :)
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Whale watching Iceland August 10th 08:55
This morning we sailed from Hafnarfjörður. The sea condition from Reykjavik was bad so we decided to sail from Hafnarfjörður. We picked our guest up from the old harbour in Reykjavik and drove them with a bus to Hafnarfjörður where our whale watching boat Andrea was already waiting for us. Unfortunately we did not see any whales on this trip and gave our passengers an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale watching Iceland August 10th 16:55
Trip was cancelled due to bad sea condition.
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Whale watching Iceland August 10th 12:55
We started our second trip in Hafnarfjörður and sailed to Reykjavik. We encountered soon two Harbor Porpoises who stayed with us for a couple of minutes and then left immediately. After that we did unfortunately not find more whales therefore we gave our guest an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale watching Iceland August 9th 08:55
To day we sailed from another harbour in Hafnarfjörður , It is the third most populous city in Iceland and from there it takes much shorter time out to the whales and this time we were incredible lucky ;))) We found the big whale again ;) Weather still remained kind of drizzly ~ but nice to sail under this kind of weather conditions as well and especially when we spot a whale , its so beautiful . We even saw rainbows and this several times . We spotted 2 minke whales in this tour and one Minke whale surfaced pretty close , really really close to our boat ! It was unbelievable , the people were yelling of so much joy ! Now we are sailing into the harbour , back .. mast finsihed writing the whale story ... we tell you later more of the next tour ~ Fantastic tour ! Ce matin nous sommes alles a hafnafjordur , le village de viking de reykjavik. Ensuite nous sommes montes sur le bateau et nous avons vu une grosse baleine. La baleine de Minke, un mammifere magnifique et fascinant. On l a vu plusieurs fois puis elle a disparu dans l ocean . les francais etaient etres sympathique et l equipage plein d humour . Ce fut une belle matinee fraiche et vivifiante. la mer est comme le fleuve and il ya des mondes , rivers , pont . ~ aussi des sirenes . deaux mondes la . aller a la vague , maintenant et toujours ~
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Whale watching Iceland August 9th 12:55
Our second tour wend along the Reykjanes peninsula ~ we sailed alongside the ashore and saw many things there , things that never go away or change , perhaps only the seasons will give new colours that change our few ;) We've sailed the area last winter and all there was beautiful snowy , but now there were rainbows , first rainbows to see the end of this summer ( is coming ) , and the lighthouses around this area ;) We sailed far ~ all the way to the end , along the past . We saw the lighthouse by the town Keflavik , which is called Hólmsbergsviti, It was built in 1956 , incredibly ~ and still so beautiful, painted with blue and withe colours and the orange coloured lighthouse , named Stafnesviti which was built in 1925 , far older , think of all those years this lighthouse guiding tired sailors back home to there waiting family's ;) On our tour the rain completely stopped , and also the morning haze dissolved completely , now we had a fantastic few and almost were able to see the lighthouse of Garðskagaviti ( Built 1944 , Position 64°04.903', 22°41.359 ;) ) , the famous lighthouse on the top of the cove , and there .. is a beautiful endless white sanded beach , a magical place , there hardly people to meet , there you find the spirit of tainted dreams ~ no one really knows why , but people there tell , that over the past years , strangers came to amble along for only one moment when life for them became to severe to bear , they left it all behind to this beach , all the heavy burden beautiful life brings them and therefore this place is surrounded with permanent silents that never fully elapses , even the most raging storm can't take away the magical quiet up there ~ the lighthouse gives a strongly preserved home feeling for everyone that will come along the shore for one breeze moment and .. sometimes, there are big whales to see far behind the lagoon ;) Well yes .. oh no ~ we didn't find the big whale on this tour and therefore we tell you about the beautiful lighthouses and the ocean , as much eye catcher and magnificent to marvel as the fascinating sight on a great whale , it all belongs together out there on sea ~ exact the same percentage of salt in our blood , our sweat , our tears ~ we are tied to the ocean ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 8th 12:55
Weather conditions changed more into a much more wavy tour and we don't think we are able to sail out on our last tour to day . We sailed quit far and for some moment it seamed like the weather have calmed and we really enjoyed the tour a lot ~ the light and soft rain coming with the haze gave our tour a totally different feeling then on other days when we have sunshine all around . Typical Icelandic weather ~ or sailors weather , no adventures weather ;) Again no whales in this tour and we decided to hand our passengers another tour for free to come again with us ;) Now this is our last tour for to day and we are now sailing back torwards the harbour , having warm tee ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 8th 08:55
The weather changed over night ~ huge grey clouds all over the bay and with them the " puke " waves ;) As we call it sometimes in our tours . We started our tour visiting the puffins and then sailing further out . A dense haze emerged all around the bay and this came out really mystical to sail with no land to behold ;) People really loved it and enjoyed more the wavy sailing tour then anything . People were standing by the "Titanic" top of our boat ~ enjoying the splashes of the sea . We didn't find any whales in this tour and handed our passenger another ticket fro free to come along with us in fallowing days . We cant write so much , its so unbelievable wavy out here and now we are on our way back sailing trough the splashes of the ocean .. in our faces ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 7th 16:55
This trip started with a jumping Minke Whale :) he jumped twice and after that we kept on surfacing and surfacing. He barely went down for deeper dives. Incredible to see this wonderful animal. One time he surface twice very quick in a row and that looked more like a dolphin´s behavior ;) so much fun to observe this animal. Sometimes he surface rather close to the boat only about 5m away...what a wonderful trip.
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Whale Watching Iceland August 7th 12:55
On our second trip for today we found a small group of White beaked Dolphins 4-5 animals. They only surfaced twice and all of a sudden they were gone...this behavior is rather uncommon for dolphins because normally they are curious and would approach the boat. After that we encountered a Minke Whale who also just surfaced twice and then prefered to stay under water therefore we kept on sailing to find another whale. It took a while but on the way back to Reykjavik we saw another Minke Whale who appeared quite often and everyone was happy to see this animal.
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Whale watching Iceland August 7th 08:55
We encountered soon a Minke Whale who behaved a bit shyly and prefered to stay under water for a while so we decided to keep on sailing to find another Minke Whale or another Whale Species. It did take a while to find the next Minke Whale but this one was not as shy and surfaced quite often and all of a sudden 2 Harbor Porpoises were showing up in front of our boat. They approached the boat and there were just about 2m in between us and the Porpoises :) Very nice trip!
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Whale Watching Iceland August 6th at 12:55
On our second trip for today we sailed to Lundey our Puffin Island where the Puffins were flying all around us :) We found our Minke Whales from this morning again, one was a bit smaller and was quick with the surfacing but the other one took all his time to surface and once in a while we also saw the blow which could reach up to 3m. We observed these two for a bit until we kept on sailing further out where we found 2 other Minke Whales. One of them was swimming quite fast, probably hunting while the other one was behaving calmly. Calm or fast does not matter as long as we see these lovely marine mammals :)
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Whale Watching Iceland August 6th at 8:55
Today we joined our little bird friends "The Puffins" at Akurey where most of them were just sitting on the sea. It did not take long to find a Minke Whale :) we stayed a bit with this animal and one time when he surfaced we saw the blow which could reach up to 3m...amazing! In faxafloi we have about 4 different whale species, apart from unexpected guest ;) therefore we decided to leave the Minke Whale and kept on searching and found another one before we saw splashes further away. A lovely group of White Beaked Dolphins and some of them were jumping. As we have gotten closer we saw that they were travelling with two calfs and they were protecting them well, having them swimming between them. Nice to see them taking care of each other :)
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Whale watching Iceland August 6th 16:55
We started our last trip for today in Faxafloi where we found a Minke Whale. We saw this animal surfacing twice before we kept on sailing into an area in which we had found a lot of Gannets, throwing themselves into the water from 30-40m (thats how they hunt). Amazing to see them hunting and seeing them, is always a good sign that there are whales around as well. Right in their hunting area we found 3-4 Minke Whales, one small one ;) they were surfacing constantly and sometimes close to the boat about 10m away from us. It was amazing to see how the birds and the whales were sharing their feeding ground :) On the way back to Reykjavik we stopped at Akurey where we unfortunately only saw about 5 Puffins :( I guess that most of them were our having dinner.
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Whale Watching Iceland August 5th at 16:55
This tour really wend endless and beautiful ~ last tour of this week and we can tell many whale tales beginning on Monday when we sailed all the way to Akraness town to see the Long finned pilot whales and there were many of them , approx 200 gathering together by a fjord and later we behold them further out again ~ only 5 meters close to our boat . The other past tours of this week were incredibly, cause most ..................
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Whale Watching Iceland August 5th 12:55
We had also in this tour a really nice time ~ just when we headed out the harbour we spotted a small group of harbour porpoises surfacing pretty close ~ also the puffin island were packed again , we saw many of the cute birds , differently as this morning when the island were a bit empty . The surface appeared very bright in colours and like a mirror ~ absolutely beautiful , silent weather conditions . When we sailed out we count find something right away , but pretty soon we spotted our first minke whale and actually another one further out . The animal remained very occupied feeding and we were not able to see very much of the whale , but then all over sudden withe beaked dolphins came along our way and stayed with us for a long time , jumping as well . Some fallowed us for some while when it was time to sail back to the harbour . Really nice tour !
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Whale watching Iceland August 5th 08:55
Last day of this wonderful week ~ Sunday morning and we headed out towards the feeding grounds . First we had to search for some while and the pretty soon we found our morning luck . A beautiful minke whale surfaced several times and then came pretty close to our boat , we were able able to observe this beauty all the time because it didn't kept much distance . Only sometimes our whale stayed to long time under the water , feeding on its breakfast ;) The people on the boat were in fantastic mood and we had to laugh so much , it was an incredibly fun tour and we have seen about 5 minke whales . Now we are back towards the harbour ~ heading back home for yummy lunch ;) Aujourd hui nous avons vu beaucoup de baleines, des marsouins communs et les passagers etaient tres drole . Nous nous sommes bien amuses . Le soleil etait au rendez vous et une legere brise nous a emmerveille. C. ne veut plus marcher au bord de la seine avec G, ce matin elle s est reveille, et elle l a oublie. Ce fut de bons moments, mais maintenant il est temps de s amuser avec d autres cabillauds dans l ocean .
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Whale watching Iceland August 4th 16:55
Last tour ~ oh we really like to sail home now , into our bed ;) A wonderful tour we had and all the tours to day , many whales we've seen and our evening tour wend luckily well , guess why ? .. ;P oh well , we found the big whale again ~ actually this time we just made it on time . Just about that we found the last minke whale of the day ;) We sailed very far and really there was no whale to see . Sunshine dazzled into our eyes , soft winds and waves to burst and time run behind , but then all over sudden we found the whale , it surfaced right next to our boat and we were able to kip the whales in our company for quit some while . A big Minke whale all along out there fighting the waves . But since we sailed very far out we had to go back soon and leave this beauty behind . But , we are really happy , cause .. we found the big whale ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 4th 12:55
We headed towards the same feeding ground just like this morning and once again we can call this a lucky tour ~ we first spotted withe beaked dolphins and then pretty soon we detected a Minke whale and 5 more . We weren't able to count how many Minke whales were visible in this tour , really nice ! We had excellent moments and several minke whales approached our boat unbelievable close , showing us there black back and also underneath the withe colours of the belly ~ again ;)) Splashes of the whale when it rolled around and on our way back we saw many minke whales all around ~ wonderful , we hope for a really good tour now on our last tour for to day .. now we are on our way to puffin island , very excited , everybody enjoying the outside having waffle and home made , real strong captains cafe on the upper deck . Fantastic tour !
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Whale watching Iceland August 4th 8:55
Beautiful colours of nature ~ a mass of low clouds , some in dark and some very bright which gave the ocean a beautiful reflection . Even do we had some more wind this morning , it really then during our tour calmed and also the surface , some under waves made the sailing into a new day more exciting . Some of our guests stood outside by the bow of the boat to play "titanic" ;) This morning we sailed out with a medium sized group of people and so the atmosphere were even more personal and nature more to behold , the silents of nature . After leaving the puffin island were we still can see many birds ~ we headed out towards the feeding grounds and were lucky pretty soon ~ when we spotted a clique ;) of Withe beaked Dolphins . Like always they came really close to our boat and we had a great time , especially when they cam only 2 to 3 meters close to the boat . We left them and sailed further to find us a bigger whales and we didn't find only one ~ we found about 8 Minke whales this morning , most likely we reached a good feeding area . There was one minke whale surfacing incredibly close to our boat and while doing , quit often it rolled around and showed us its withe coloured belly , later after the tour people asked me " what was this withe whale ;) " Minke whales are above gray black , but underneath they show a beautiful withe colour and since this animal remained all the time close to our boat , rolling around and also often coming up with its south first , we've gotten the perfect picture , well the perfect moment to take home with us . We have seen many Gannet's on this tour , really spectacular to watch them hunting there fish , plunging from height into the sea to pursuing their prey . Nice tour , really ~ very close to nature .
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Whale watching Iceland August 3rd 16:55
Last tour for to day and the scenery really hit it ~ we sailed very far out and then coloured oft the moving clouds changed constantly all around the bay . One side appeared more dark and the other side blue sky and very brighten . We saw again the withe beaked dolphins , but this time they seamed really occupied on doing something else and we only gotten a small moment of them . But we kept on sailing very far and once again ~ the surroundings came out so incredibly beautiful with the constant changing light of the sunshine glowing trough the dark clouds . The ocean became a bit wavy as well and it was quit some fun to sail above it . And we did found our big whale ;) Actually all together we spotted 3 minke whales , we had to search for a long time to find them and it really was exciting when we first saw the black back appearing ~ and we were so lucky , cause the whale came fairly close , only 20 meters and less and it remained for all the left time we had with us close to our boat ! After we had a really nice sail back home and before we enter the harbour we had a visit by the puffin island and saw surprisingly many birds this time . We are very happy cause we found the big whale again ;)
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Whale watching Iceland August 3rd 12:55
Weather changed a bit ~ more chilly and bleak , still we had a calm sea surface and bright in colours ~ good to find whales , but it was just a bit more cold and we are so spoiled from the past days sunshine . We headed quit far again and spotted a group of withe beaked dolphins which stayed with us for a good while , like always ;) Dolphins always come close to the boat and its a lot of fun ~ every time when they are around ! Past days we saw them quit often in our tours . Again we had to search for some while to find the whale and then , yes we found a nice minke whale surfacing further , but fairly soon the animal came unbelievable close to the boat. It stayed with us all the time and soon we spotted several more minke whales , all together we had about 3 minke whales close to our boat . Very nice tour and also the weather came in a way mystical ~ its fun ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland August 3d 08:55
A beautiful morning ~ the ocean surface laid just silent , first morning rays of sun were tussle trough a few drifting clouds . Our first stop were puffin island and the after that we headed out , very hopeful and we had to sail and search for quit some while . Actually this seamed strange ~ the weather was just so good and typical to find whales , cause once the sea surface is coloured very bright it makes a fantastic few to detect the whales . Really gotten worried and then all over sudden we spotted a black back very far and when we came closer we discovered about 4 Minke whales . All of them came pretty close , especially one ~ we were able to see the black back and the sound of the animal breathing ~ magical , cause all was so silent out there . Maybe to day ~ the whales were just overslept and for that we found them a bit late , we awaken them ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland August 2nd 16:55
our last tour to day wend really nice ~ we stopped first by the puffin island and then we sailed out to find the big whale , like always ;) Especially the last tours are so nice and amusing , always . Actually we've gotten a bit worried cause we didn't find a whale for quit some while and almost thought this evening we are not to find the big whale ;/ But all over sudden a big whale , only one big whale showed up very far from our boat and we've gotten closer to the animal and for some long time this big whale kept some distance and it was difficult to observe this animal well ~ but then after some while it gotten trust because all the time we remained quiet at this spot ~ waiting for our minke whale every time to surface and then it came unbelievable close to our boat , even 5 meters close , nice ! Now we are sailing home , really happy , cause guess what ~ we found the big whale ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland August 2nd 12:55
We headed towards the same feeding grounds and this tour was so nice ~ we found so many minke whales all around the bay . Some of them further out and some fantastic close . Several times they came incredible close to the boat and the hole tour was fulfilled with action all time around . First we spotted one minke whale just when we sailed out the harbour area and we decided to leave this beauty alone and sail further out for a good adventure to find . Which we did ! Always something new came up in our way ~ always a new minke whale we sailed to and on the very end we spotted a group of Withe beaked dolphins ~ a wonderful medium sized group which remained with us for a long time , but this time it was us that left them ~ cause further out we saw something surfacing and a new whale again .. all the tour was so exciting . But one thing really touched our heart , incredible cute ..a little seal all over sudden appeared in front of our boat ~ to peer around it stick its head out of the water and looked towards our boat ~ the seal was sooooo cute ... really !!! Unbelievable cute ~ the method it looked around , a bit confused it seamed and frighten ~ little seal all by itself between harbour porpoises and a huge boat ;) Incredible ~ never seen this before . We had so good weather conditions , no waves and great people here on this tour . Now we are back by the harbour ~ Happy for this good tour .
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Whale Watching Iceland August 2nd 08:55
Wonderful tour ~ we headed out , still we have so much sunshine all along the bay and soon after only sailing a little while we found a big minke whale surfacing not far from our boat . We almost missed this beautiful creature ~ it came up approximate 40 meters distance and then after some while very close . The animal was extremely big and we were able to observe it so very well ~ seeing the big snout and also the black back of the animal quit often . Then we spotted some white beaked dolphins and they also remained with us for a long time , just like yesterday ~ they came really close to the boat , talking about 2 meters and less ! Further out we spotted 2 minke whales and when we had enough time with the dolphins we sailed closer to the minke whales we have spotted further earlier on ~ and also them gave us a really good time to show us there body . Really nice tour ! Cette matinee est geniale , nous avons vu des petits rorquals, des dauphins a nez blancs, des marsouins communs .Nous avons pris un petit dejeuner francais, et nous nous sommes bien amuse avec l equipage, et les passagers francais . Une matinee merveilleuse, exotique et inoubliable . Quel Odysee intense . C. pense a paris et a une marche au bord de la seine avec G. un jour prochain. Tout est arrive au bon moment, comme aujourd hui, une journee ensoleillee .
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Whale Watching Iceland August 1st 16:55
we headed towards the feeding grounds once again to find the big whale before we would go home ~ we sailed very far . There was no land in sight anymore , when suddenly we saw really big splashes , they were enormous and when we got closer we found this really big group of withe beaked dolphins pretty close to our boat . They made our evening tour really unforgettably , some of them came that close again like this morning ~ we almost were able to touch them ;) We stayed with the dolphins for a really long time and then we sailed further to find the real big whale , like always ;) We sailed and sailed and underneath the sunshine , there suddenly arises a big whale ~ a really big whale . The minke whale was really cool , cause it rolled around in the water which gave us the moment to see again the withe coloured belly of this animal . Really it was incredibly close and several times the big whale surfaced along side our boat ~ a real big whale . We sailed home very happy because once again , we found the big whale ~
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Whale Watching Iceland August 1st 12:55
A graceful tour ;) Yes , why ~ The people on this tour just rocked the bay with trendy wear ;) There are so many different mentality visiting from all around the world here on our boat ~ joyn us to find the big whale ;) This time we headed out straight to the whale aria and made the round to the puffins on the end of our tour . Weather conditions still remained very beautiful ~ a summer day , the 1 . August . Gosh , time is running and we are in the middle of summer ~ and in only 2 weeks the puffin season will stop already ~ this summer wend rally fast and it was one of the best . But lets talk about this wonderful tour with the graceful women from Jerusalem here on our boat . Never meet such beautiful Lady's and the way the move and talk and dress up for the ocean ~ really fashionable and grace of elegance like our boat is sailing trough down town Paris ;) We spotted our first Minke whale after searching for about 15 min and then pretty soon we found 6 more Mink Whales all around our boat , surfacing fairly close to us . One creature came really close , only 5 meters or less and we were able to behold the withe coloured whales under jaw and also the triangulate snout coming up first while the big whale ~ very greedy approached our boat . Magnificent , how the whale moved so fast and with such an power emerging all the time and quit often above the surface to have a sip of air or maybe to show of ;) We also saw a group of harbour porpoises ~ they came out of the blue and all over sudden were in front of our boat , and this time they moved very slow , which is not very common for this kind of species , so we were able to see all there little cute body shining trough from underneath the surface . Now we are by the puffin island and all of our guests are joy so much the outside and surroundings here on Faxi bay , the nice weather and the birds . In this tour we had seen many birds , like Gannets and Guillemots , Fulmars , Puffins ~ the usually group of birds which I haven't seen for a long time in that quantum's out on sea . Now we are leaving the Island Akurey and we are on our way back home to Reykjavik harbour , ready to pause ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland August 1th 08:55
The sunshine day ~ we arrived by the harbour this morning and a beautiful day awaited us , sunshine all over the bay and the few was unbelievably , the surroundings all around this bay .. our captain boiled fresh cafe and then after a little yummy breakfast we welcomed our first guests which to day were coming from Germany . The boat fully backed we headed out ~ first we stopped by the puffin island were we've seen many of those beautiful cute birds gathering above the island ;) And then we finally headed out , sailing towards the whale feeding grounds and we didn't sail for long when a minke whale showed up close to to our boat and then we saw one more whale and one more and .. we were surrounded by many minke whales , some of them surfaced pretty close to our boat ~ one whale was the big whale ;) and this magnificent creature appeared only 5 meters close to our boat , the sound of the animal breathing was incredibly ! Further we detected a group of withe beaked dolphins and they cam unbelievably close to our boat ~ that close that they whirl splutter up to our faces ~ REALLY ;))) The people that were watching them from our titanic spot were almost able to touch them and quit often the jumped our the water . For one moment we thought they are preforming a tour for us ~ remaining very close ahead of our boat and doing all kinds of stunts ~ we are really happy with this tour and now on our way back to Reykjavik harbour , everyone sipping on some nice drink having a sunbathing and exchanging nice photographs of this outstanding tour ~ Great tour , great atmosphere of joyful people ;)))
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Whale Watching Iceland July 31st 16:55
Well this tour was the endless sailing into the wide ocean ~ far out we sailed to find the big whale ~ We sailed about 1 hour and searched everywhere . The people on the boat were really excited and so wonderful mooted . When suddenly one stranger yelled " the big whale .. over there ! " . The big beast emerged above the surface showing us its big triangulate snout and then the minke whale rolled around ~ showing us its side flippers and its big greedy mouth . We stayed with the big whale and 2 white beaked dolphins that hanged out there for some good while and the we sailed all the way back to Reykjavik , very happy ~ cause we found the big whale ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland July 31st 12:55
Now we are back on sea and we sailed strait towards the whales ~ when after sailing for about 30 min we spotted a group of harbour porpoises close to our boat and they remained a bit longer time as usually for this species . We were able to see there little black back and also the gray stripes along there body . After sailing further we spotted a minke whale ~ but most likely it was the mister hiding minke whale from our morning tour , cause we just saw it one time surfacing and never again and so we sailed and sailed and then... a small group of white beaked dolphins showed up right ahead our fine boat ;) Some of them jumped out the water ~ its was so incredible nice to watch them . We hat a really good time and they stayed with us for quit some while . After we finally found our luck we headed back towards Reykjavik ~ with a small stop by the puffin island ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland July 31st 08:55
The weather was much softer to day ~ not as much rain and sunshine awaiting us in the morning when we arrive by the harbour . We started our tour with a small visit by the puffin island and then we headed out towards the whale feeding grounds ;) We actually found a minke whale at the very beginning on our tour but this individual decided to stay under the water all the time ~ and luckily enough we found a new minke whale when we sailed further out . This nice creature remained with us and surfaced quit often several times at a distance of 20 meters close to our boat . The tour was nice and the we sailed underneath the sunshine back home to have some yummy lunch ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland July 30th 16:55
Last tour for to day and now we really had to search for some while ~ the "pilots" are gone and so we searched all around for new whales in the bay ;) The weather changed incredibly nice , sunshine and only a few rainy clouds . This tour started up so good ~ when we spotted a minke whale close by the harbour area and when we came closer it disappeared ;( Same for a small group of harbour porpoises which we spotted and they didn't show much of themselves , well and we almost gave up hope cause time wend pretty much behind our back and then all over suddenly a beauty surfaced ahead our boat ~ a nice medium sized minke whale , which surfaced several times about 30 meters distance to our boat . Our tour was saved ~ we found the big whale ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland July 30th 12:55
Second tour this beautiful day ~ very excited about our first tour where we've seen Long finned pilot whales ( grind whales ) we made haste back to the same area this morning were they hanged out close to ashore by akranes a small town by the west coast . The ocean looked absolutely beautiful and appealing to have a nice rest of the day out there ~ relaxing and recovering of past weeks thunderous storms . We sailed for about 12 miles and then reached the little foerd were we spotted them before to day , very close to a little withe sand beach and area with farm houses close to the town . When we arrived we didn't found them anymore there and so we meet a fishermen sailing on a little withe fishing boat ~ he looked really surprised when we sailed towards him :) We asked him about the big group of long finned pilot whales and the old nice fishermen put hes fishing stick ;) aside and showed as were he have last time saw them . We sailed alongside the town Akranes and there as well we saw many people looking by the cliffs for the pilot whales and then we passed the lighthouse and when we sailed further we finally found the long finned pilot whales again. This time they surrounded our boat and came 10 meters close to the boat ~ unforgettable moments ;) Sometimes everything seams so right in time ~ we stayed some while with them and watched them pretty well . The long finned pilot whales sometimes moved very fast making splashes . A big group of them and ... it was so nice ;) Now we are sailing towards the puffin island to see our little clowns of the ocean
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Whale Watching Iceland July 30th 8:55
New week ~ new whales . We have a big group of Long finned pilot whales ( Grindwals ) in the bay !!! Never I saw this and we are really happy with this tour . We knew they are located by Akranes and for that we had to sail very far , all the way to Akranes town ~ a small town , is a port town and municipality located on the west coast of Iceland . About 6500 inhabitants , close to the Hvalfjörður Tunnel . The animals were to see from far and above the surface ~ very close to ashore . There were a few small boats surrounding the group , people mast bee really excited in that town for the next days ;) We got pretty well close to the long finned pilot whales , we estimate about 100 to 200 animals . Very close together ~ magnificent picture ! Long finned pilot whales belongs to the suborder of toothed whales , the super family of Delphinidea. All together this family has 31 species and is the most numerous of all whal family's . We saw the animals really well and close from our boat which gave us the time to see there high and rounded dorsal fin .. nice ! Now we are in Reykjavik and we sail out again more about it later ;))
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Whale Watching Iceland July 28th 08:55
Sunshine and a flat sea are already the best conditions to go out whale watching, now we just had to find the whales. It did not take long to find the first Minke Whale for today. We stayed a bit with him and were able to observe his behaivour. After a little while we kept on sailing to find another one and we encountered our second Minke Whale. He was larger than the last one and also closer to our boat. On the way to Puffin Island we saw a little pod of White beaked Dolphins about 4-6 animals. They were swimming quite fast but calmed down after a while and approached the boat so we saw them a bit closer. At Akurey, we only saw a few Puffins, some of them were sitting on the Island but also today the majority was out hunting.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 28th 16:55
On the last trip today we had to sail out pretty far to find a group of White beaked Dolphins. They were speeding up a bit and it was hard to keep track of them but we encountered them again and one of them was jumping very far away from our boat. Unfortunately they were not showing themselves a lot and at the end we decided that this trip was not good enough and gave our guests the possibility to join us again with a free ticket.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 28th 12:55
The sunshine was amazing today and the sea just splendid. We stopped at Puffin Island where we met some of our little bird friends. We did see about 2-3 different Minke Whales and had some time to observe them. They were surfacing quite often but were a bit further away and kept on swimming away. One of them decided to approach us a bit and we saw this wonderful animal closer.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 27th 12:55
On this trip we stopped first at Puffin Island to visit our little bird friends who we would also call "Clowns of the Sea" because of their colourful beak. After that we sail out to see the Whales and that did not take long :) we saw also on this trip about 2-3 Minke Whales and sometimes close to the boat. One animal was behaving very calmly and kept on surfacing constantly before going down for deeper dives. Very nice sunny and whalely ;) trip!!!
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Whale Watching Iceland July 27th 08:55
Wonderful sunny weather in Reykjavik and motivated whale watchers on board of our boat "Andrea". In Faxafloi we encountered one Minke Whale who appeared a couple of times and then decided to stay under water but that was not a problem for us, we kept on sailing and found the next Minke Whale :) We spotted about 3-4 different animals and sometimes they just surfaced in the sunshine which was a great picture for our guests.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 27th 16:55
What a sunny day it was :) on the last trip for today we saw 2 Minke Whales and they surfaced constantly. One time in the sunlight with the capital area in the background...what a great picture ;) At Akurey, our Puffin Island we did meet some Puffins but the majority of them was out on the open sea, hunting and having dinner.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 26th 16:55
On our last trip today we saw one Minke Whale who behaved a bit shyly. This animal surfaced a few times and then he prefered to stay under water. On the way back to Reykjavik we stopped at Puffin Island where most of them were out on the open sea hunting. The Puffins who stayed on the Island were quite active flying in front of our boat :)
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Whale Watching Iceland July 26th 12:55
Also on our second trip today we saw a lot of Puffins. Always nice to see these colourful birds and especially so many of them. In Faxafloi we were not that lucky :( we sailed for a long time and kept on searching and searching and finally at the end, we encountered a big group of White beaked Dolphins. They were very active and fast. Sometimes they were closer to our boat and we saw them swimming in the water so we could see the whole animal. Our search was so long that we had a delay of 1 1/2h...it was worth it ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland July 26th 08:55
This morning we welcomed a lot of people from different countries and we guided in three different languages: English, German and French...so everyone was able to get understand :) We stopped at Akurey our Puffins Island where we saw soooooooooooo many Puffins and I m not exaggerating when I say that I have not seen so many Puffins for quite a while. They were everywhere around us AMAZING!!! After that wonderful stop we sail out to find whales and we sailed out far but we did not find any whales therefore we gave our guests an extra ticket to join us again.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 25th 12:55
On our second trip we sailed to Akurey, the other Puffin Island in Kollafjörður, here we saw a lot of Puffins, flying all around us. We saw their wonderful and colourful beak clearly and we could have almost touched them, flying so close next to our boat. In our whale watching area we found our Minke Whale from this morning again and he was still behaving calmly, surfacing 3 to 5 times before he dived. The sea was calm but it was still windy and even rainy :( everyone was so happy to see the Minke Whale and did not mind the rain at all.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 25th 08:55
This morning it was quite windy and cold but with our overalls on board nobody had to be cold. We started our trip at Lundey where most of the Puffins were probably having breakfast so we just saw a few. In Faxafloi we soon encountered one Minke Whales who surfaced three times and after that he prefered to stay under water for some time therefore we kept on searching and found another Minke Whale who appeared more often and once in a while close to our boat. We stayed with this animal and observed his behaivour. He was surfacing very slowly and constantly which was very nice for us. Everyone was very happy to see this amazing whale and did not want to go back to Reykjavik :)
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Whale Watching Iceland July 24th 08:55
This morning the sea was a bit rough and we started our trip at Lundey, our Puffin Island. As we had sailed further, the weather got worse therefore we decided to sail back to Reykjavik to avoid seasickness and to make sure that our guests don´t feel sick. At the end we gave everyone an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 24th 16:55
The sea had calmed down a bit so we decided to sail out. At Lundey we saw our little Puffins...not so many of them there :( I guess most of them had dinner on the open sea. After our stop there, we kept on sailing to meet our wonderful whales :) we encountered 2 Harbor Porpoises who surfaced quite often but these animals are very small and with the waves being a bit higher then usually it was difficult to see them well enough. Unfortunately we could not find any other whales apart from these lovely Harbor Porpoise. Therefore we said that this trip was not good enough and gave our guest an extra ticket for free to join us again.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 23d 08:55
This morning it was a bit windy and the sea a bit moody. We stopped at Puffin Island where we saw some Puffins but it seemed that most of them went out to have breakfast ;) We kept on sailing until we reached our whale watching area in which we started to look for whales. Unfortunately we were searching and looking all around but we did not find whales today. At the end of our trip we gave our guests an extra ticket for free so they can join us again.
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Whale Watching Iceland July 22nd 08:55
Still the weather conditions seamed pretty gray after the storm last night ~ but the sea was really calm to sail out , some rain drops refreshend us as well and not long after we left the puffin island , we reached the whale area were we found a big group of withe beaked dolphins , really nice ! The group was rather large and we had a good time observing them from all sides of our boat ~ the colours of the animal , withe lines and once they came only 3 meters close to the boat . All over sudden a minke whale torn up in front of our boat and this beautiful animal was fully grown ~ we had a fantastic time , cause this whale remained all the time with us and also fairly close to the boat ~
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Whale Watching Iceland July 22d 16:55
Last tour of this week and I remember 2 weeks ago writing about a fantastic whale week we had ~ now .. well yes we had good moments , really good once ~ an especially lots of withe beaked dolphins were around this week . Like to day in our last tour , now we are just on our way back home ~ but we've seen a small group of withe beaked dolphins appearing at the front of our boat , 5 meters distance ~ but then they disappeared and we watched all around the boat , even far ~ no , they were gone, and we had to sail home with no whale in our back to tell you now about . We searched for a long time and within this tour we had lots of rain showers , real rain showers , actually my favourite ~ but since yesterday we do have some under waves and thees kind of waves make any men sleepy and exhausted at the end of the day ;) But still the waves seam incredibly beautiful ~ it almost felt like our boat were rolling above a magical wide carpet stretching endless ~ also ease mist appeared, especially on our last tour , all around the bay ~ magical xxx . We are now on our way home ~ before we sail into the harbour we stop for a little while by the puffin island and say good night ** and , now while our soaked to the skin passengers snooze in our cosy coffeehouse , sipping on hot chocolate , we go around to hand them another free ticket to come with us again to a better whale watching tour , to find the big whale ;))
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Whale Watching Iceland July 22d 12:55
Again this week we have to write about an unlucky tour ;( Weather actually changed towards typical Icelandic weather , rain , winds ~ but the bright colour of the sea surface brought our hope ~ because then they are really good visibly . First we thought and actually were to certain to detect a big whale at the further distance , surfacing 2 times , also our passengers were able to see it , but then we never spotted it again . We searched all along this tour for whales and were not able to find whales ;( We gave our nice passengers another ticket for free to come out with us for a better whale watching tour in fallowing days ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 21st 08:55
We had some wind raising this morning , but still the ocean remained very calmly all along this tour . We headed towards the area were we found many whales earlier this week and really gotten lucky . Two Minke whales surfaced pretty close to our boat and also stayed all the time with us ! The atmosphere and surroundings as well seam really beautiful ~ even we expect a big storm later to day . Really nice tour and especially the people on our boat seam incredibly happy , we had great talks and even danced in the coffeehouse on our way back to Reykjavik ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland July 20th 16:55
we've seen a wonderful group of withe beaked dolphins ~ actually 2 times in this tour . The second time they really came close to our boat and made jumps ;) A little calf jumping out of the water over and over , it was terrific ! The dolphins remained with us for about 30 min or more and then we sailed very slow towards home ~ the surroundings were unbelievably beautiful with the evening sun and temperatures came pretty warm and nice to have a nice sunbathing on our fine boat . Just before sailing into the harbour we stopped by the puffin island and say good night to our little clowns of the ocean ~
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 20th 12:55
This tour wend rather unlucky ~ but people really hit the fun ;) Very nice atmosphere on the boat . First we spotted one minke whale and actually we've gotten a real good picture of the animal surfacing about 40 meters distance ahead of our boat and then it all over sudden disappeared . Same thing afterwards when we arrived at a area were we thought to find some whales ~ we detected some glimpse of a minke whale we thought and then it never was shown to us again . We gave our brave passenger complimentary ticket to come with us again to another whale watching tour when ever they wish , but .. not tomorrow we guess ...a big storm is raising here and this is the biggest storm since 1901 in the months of Juli ~ so big waves tomorrow morning ;) Some people really love rain and storms , like me ... :)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 20th 08:55
The weather this morning was rainy and also grey clouds made it the typical Icelandic weather to sail out . We first stopped by puffin island and then headed out to the whales ~ which we had to sail very far out to day . It didn't take for a long time and we detected a minke whale to our left side of the boat and some time after that another minke whales . Both were surfacing around our boat and one time on of the creatures came only 3 meters close ~ behind the boat , giving some of our guests a surprising moment ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 18th 16:55
Also on the last trip we found all 3 of those Whale Species again. Starting with the Harbor Porpoises and also the Minke Whales were not so far away anymore and we observed them for some time until we spotted our nice little group of White beaked Dolphins who started to chase us from one side to another. They love to play with the boat and swam from the right to the left side and from the left to the right, Our passengers had a lot of fun to follow them, They surface just about 2 m from the boat and everyone was very happy to see them that close. We could even see their eyes so for them it was human watching ;) Great trip!
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 18th 12:55
We went out for the second time today and tried to find all of those 3 different Whale Species which we had encountered at our previous trip and that did not take long :) The Harbor Porpoises were the first ones we found ...they were escorting our trip a bit and once in a while they surface close to the boat. The group of white beaked dolphins was not so far away and we found them easily and while we were watching them all of sudden one Minke Whale surfaced :) 2 species right in front of the boat. The dolphins were very active and we stayed with the Minke Whale to see him for some time before we checked out this wonderful group of Dolphins again. The Dolphins approached the boat and we saw all of them swimming in the water and surfacing next to our boat.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 18th 08:55
Very nice weather in Reykjavik today and the sea was very flat. These are already the best conditions to go out Whale Watching :) We started our trip at our Puffin Island Akurey where we saw these lovely little birds who we also call Clowns of the Sea ;) It did not take long to find some Harbor Porpoises (smallest toothed whale 1,3 -2 m of size) we keep on sailing to find something bigger and that took a while. On the search of a Minke Whale, we did encounter just one White beaked Dolphin surfacing closely to our boat. It was kind of strange to see this animal all by himself because dolphins are normally group animals and when we see them, we would find them in pods. At the end of the trip we finally found 2 Minke Whale and stayed with these wonderful animals. Once both of them appeared at the same time and sometimes also very close next to the boat. 3 out of our 4 different Whale Species spotted today...What a great success and nice trip!
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 17th 12:55
This tour wend really well~ like always we first visit the puffin island were we've seen many birds gathering and also flying close to our boat . Afterwards we headed towards the feeding ground of the whales were we found a minke whale and actually many more minke whales . We couldn't really wait to reach the area to get closer to them and then , when we has just arrived the animal took our course and then surfaced only 10 meters away from the boat . Really nice and welcoming ;) We believe it was just the same minke whale from our morning tour cause soon after that it rolled itself above the surface and we were able to see the whales white belly ~ all of the animals tummy was seen ~ about 20 meters distance and really good visibly for us . All together we've seen again up to 6 minke whales in this tour . The white beaked dolphins we haven't seen again , but therefore we had a wonderful time with our characteristic minke whale . This creature really rocks ~ behaving differently then the other minks we've seen around to day. Now we are on the sail back home and our guests are HAPPY ~
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 17th 08:55
Beautiful morning ~ again sunshine all along the bay , warm temperatures and when we sailed out we spotted withe beaked dolphins further . Differently then yesterday ~ they decided to not spent much time with us and so we sailed further to find a real big whale and indeed id didn't take us long to sail when we detected splashes , still far but very good to recognise . When we arrived closer we sight a beautiful minke whale ~ fully grown creature , big whale ! ;) We always keep some distance to the whale to respect there space and after some while most of the time they come close to the boat unless they are occupied on feeding , our minke came incredibly close , only 5 meters next to our boat all over suddenly the beautiful large animal surfaced and we were able to behold the hole body glittering underneath the sunshine . A beautiful moment we take now back home , but of course we had several moments this morning and further and also close we spotted 5 more minke whales . now we are sailing home ~ we are ready for a big hamburger lunch and the were going to sail out again into a new adventure ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 17th 16:55
Our last tour and again we spotted several whales at the same feeding rounds were we found them this week . One minke whale floundered all the time around our boat showing us its black back , the triangulate big ~ wide opened mouth . The mouth really was smelly and we were able to smell the bad breath an a distance of 40 meters . When this whale drowned we decided to sail further out to find another big whale that maybe wasn't that smelly. We sailed maybe 10 min when a big blow appeared ahead the ocean surface and we saw a whale surfacing , one more minke whale . We remained with this animal for a long time and it came pretty close to us ~ 5 meter ;) Then quickly, we had to sail home before the dust would raise above the ocean and all become to mystical out there ~
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 16th 08:55
Monday morning , a new week have come and with it terrific weather conditions ~ sunshine everywhere . Early by morning we were able to just wear a shirt , incredibly warm temperatures . We first visit puffin island and the headed out towards the feeding ground and we didn't sail for long ~ when we've spotted our first creature , a big minke whale surfacing not far. We really had great portion of luck with us cause this animal approached our boat right away and sometimes we were able to see it fairly close , well .. most of the time the animal only surfaced 10 meters distance alongside and ahead our boat. There we spotted more minke whales , all together 4 minke whales surfacing at a close area to our boat . One time we were able to smell the minks breath uchhh ;) Nice tour !
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 16th 16:55
Also in this tour we gotten lucky and again many withe beaked dolphins were present again ~ we gave the puffins a small visit and were able to sail the short way towards the island cause of the high tide , which is always a tingling event sailing above only 2, 5 meters ocean ground for a short moment of seconds ;) We headed then very far out and this time we sailed quit far , really far ~ the weather conditions remained just beautiful , sunshine and warm temperatures . Soon we spotted some splashes further away and discovered .. again we've spotted a group of dolphins . They approached us really closely and the also we were able to see the little dolphin calf's travelling together with there family . Really nice . Its not every day we see dolphins and so we enjoyed this tours to day even more . Now we are getting ready for a see angling tour around the fjord ~ this will be another kind of fun out on sea ;) Nice day ~
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 16th 12:55
Our second tour for this week ~ we sailed first for a small visit towards the puffin island and on our way we've spotted a small group of harbour porpoises , just by the island ;)) We haven't seen as many puffins , but most likely they have been out hunting for fish . We really were surprised in this tour , cause after only a little while sailing we've spotted a big group of withe beaked dolphins . There was so many of them surrounding our boat and then we also were able to detect a little calf close by its family. Some of our guests saw the dolphins really close ~ they almost were able to touch it . We remained for a long time with the withe beaked dolphins and then we heard about a minke whale hanging out close to ashore and we were lucky enough to find it . The minke whales was good visible for us and several times surfacing only in a 20 meters distance . But then we run out of time and started our sail back to land . Our guests enjoyed the sun bathing at the top deck ~ really nice weather , really nice tour ~
júl
Whale Watching Iceland June 15th 16:55
We spotted two Harbor Porpoises appearing all of a sudden in front of our boat again. We stopped and started to observe them but they left after a while and then unexpected one Minke Whale surfaced a couple of times and decided to stay under water. We kept on sailing and searching. Unfortunately we did not see anything else and were not sure if everyone had see the Minke Whale so at the end we decided that the trip was not good enough and gave our guest an extra ticket for free to join us again.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 15th 12:55
Also on this trip we sailed out far to find our marine mammals. We encountered a little group of Harbor Porpoises and they surfaced close in front of our boat so close that we could see them swimming in the water next to the boat but then they left us and we spotted 2 Minke Whale who appeared constantly next and in front or our vessel. Very nice trip :)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 15th 08:55
This morning we found 2 Minke Whales...we had to sail very far out to find them but we saw them surfacing quite often and on the way back we stopped at Puffin Island.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 14th 08:55
Our first trip was cancelled due to bad sea conditions
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 14th 12:55
The sea was a bit moody but the weather was nice. We sailed far out to find whales and were searching and searching but unfortunately we did not find any whales :( therefore we gave our guests an extra ticket for free to join us again. On the way back we stopped at Akurey-our Puffin Island and visited these cute colourful birds.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 13th 12:55
We tried to find our 2 Humpback Whales from this morning again and sailed far out. On the way we did see 1 Minke Whale who surfaced twice and then decided to stay under water so unfortunately not everyone was able to see this animal. Also our Humpback Whales were gone therefore we gave our passengers an extra ticket for free so they could join us again.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 13th 08:55
What a nice trip :) We had to sail far and it took a while until we found something. Our guests were very patient and that was rewarded by the surfacing of 2 Humpback Whales. They were swimming very close to one another and surfaced at the same time. It was wonderful to see these two amazing creatures. It was perfect timing when the Humpback Whales went down for a deep dive, suddenly a Minke Whale appeared and we had two different whale species in front of us. We stayed a little bit with the Minke until the Humpback Whale resurfaced and this time he approached us. This animal was soooo close that we could see his mouth which is totally covered with bumps and the long white flipper in the water. It was incredible to observe how this animal seemed to just glide in the water. Total success :)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 12th 16:55
Last round ~ will we be lucky this time ? We sailed a quit extraordinary route this time ~ arriving from another edge to catch the whales new hideout . We find them ;) The coast looked now more inviting cause the wind calmed and with it the white cup waves appease . Our boat skimmed above the waves and with us rare dressed up guests joined us to help and find the big whale ~ Now broadly equipped we were ready for the last passage of to day . Our captain sailed along the island coastline sipping on its last days black night cafe while we marvelled the beautiful surroundings there . Then finally we reached the wide sea , the colours of clouds and sea changed into blue grey and we searched and searched for the whales ... ;/ No whale , yes its true , we found no whale in this tour ;( But this didn't seam to upset our nice passengers ~ they enjoyed the good atmosphere on our boat and also old story's of the ocean were told in the round ~ We find the big whale another day ;P Good night ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 12th 12:55
Quickly we loaded our boat with new people and our empty stomach ~ some yummy pasta bake , quick quick ;) And the out of sea towards a new adventure . Optimistic to find whales now in this tour ~ we've sailed very far out . First stopping by the puffin island and the quick ~ ~ ~ But ;( Again , now whales . This times even worse then our first tour . We haven't seen one single whale surfacing . Searching all around and then .. no , not again . But , such days are happening , not often , very rarely ~ but unlucky whale days exist ;/ Again , everybody is welcome to another free tour in coming days to join us . Now we are sailing the last time out this day and ... maybe a miracle will happen , lets see ...
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 12th 08:55
Unlucky days happen and to day we don't know were the whales remained ~ seams like they all were hiding under the water . When we sailed our we spotted one minke whale , but we only gotten the moment to see it one more time and several other minke whales we've seen in this tour acted like the same way . They came up to the surface and then disappeared into the deeps of the ocean , never seen again . This tour we stayed for a long time out on see ~ we even missed out our lunch , because we so much wished to find the whales . The most disappointing moment appeared when we were just on our way back to Reykjavik and one big minke whale all over sudden surfaced only 10 meters close to our boat and we never seen it again ;((( This was incredibly unfair ~ finally were hopeful to have come across a whale , so happy and then this creature disappeared and never surfaced again ;(( We were bitterly disappointed and sailed back home ~ sad ;(( Of course we gave all of our brave passengers a complimentary ticket to come with us again for a better whale watching tour some day of there choice ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 11th 08:55
Nice weather conditions made a wonderful sail out ~ the few stretched endless and we were bale to see all the mountains surrounding the bay . We also didn't had to sail far when we spotted our first minke whale surfacing far ahead our boat . It took us some while ~ and waiting time for the animal to approach our boat more closely , but on the end it finally did come close 10 meters distance only . Behind our boat we detected another minke whale and also further we've spotted 2 more minke whales and there blow was visible to us . Harbour porpoises made our tour perfect then , cause they came really close to our boat and some of our guests loved it incredibly much. There weren't so many puffins to day ~ lets see by the afternoon , they will be back home by then ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 11th 16:55
Our last tour for to day and the sun is still out there shining with us ~ the whales acted rather strange to day , of course we had some really good moments ~but we always had to wait for a very long time , being patient with the whales to surface and also we are a bit spoiled from last weeks whales . Now we are on our way to lunday , puffin Island . This island we never visit much but since we've been lucky in this tour and spotted a fine Minke Whale fairly fast we have some good time to sail there and check on the lunday birds . When we sailed out we headed towards another direction as to days tours and just when I took my binoculars to pick of the bunch I saw a little Minke Whale all by itself surfacing to snap some fresh air and the black back of the whale was to see sparkling underneath the rays of sunshine . The captain took a big turn ~ and we sailed quite close to the little Minke Whale . The little whale turn out much bigger then and we had a good time seeing it surfacing several times ~ keeping a distance at about 30 meters to our boat . Nice time we ;) Now I mast hurry , cause we just arriving by the island and we are so excited to watch the little clown of the ocean !!!
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 11th 12:55
Very nice tour ~ Minke Whale 2 meters close to our boat !!! Our well formed whale team spotted all the whales in in this tour . Incredibly tour , wonderful atmosphere on the boat , happy mooted guests . Man!!! Super ;) We headed towards the same area were we found this morning the whales and also we were a bit worried to find whales ~ cause the yesterdays tour wend not so well , but when we sight a a pair of lover which had some fun , certainly ~ Swimming close to each other all the time and after a while they came pretty close to our boat , but incredibly close . One of them only 2 meters , the sound of the animal breathing made us all scram out of joy and adrenaline. Fantastic moments and also we've spotted one more Minke Whale further which came after some while fairly close as well . Unforgettably tour !!!
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 10th 08:55
On this morning trip we spotted some blows but unfortunately the whales did not really show themselves :( Our passengers were very patient and that paid off at the end :) we did encounter a nice little group of White Beaked Dolphins and stayed with them for a while until we had to go back to Reykjavik. Before we got that we stopped at Akurey, our Puffin Island and our crew had decided that the trip was not good enough and gave our tourist the possibility to join us on another trip again .
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 10th 16:55
We found our 3-4 Minke Whales again:) Their behaivor did not change, they were still rather shy. We saw the animal surfacing a few times and after that we spotted blows (a blow is the air that whales release through their blow wholes- it looks like a fountain) and we started to follow this animal. Unfortunately our Minke Whale had decided to stay under water and we sailed to Akurey- our Puffin Island-.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 10th 12:55
On this trip we saw 3-4 Minke Whales who were behaving a bit shyly but we were able to see them clearly. On Puffin Island we stopped to visit these cute birds.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 9th 08:55
Lovely weather in Reykjavik, time to go out Whale Watching :) Today we sailed to Lundey, our Puffin Island where we visited these cute birds. They were flying all around us. In Faxafloí we spotted some blows but unfortunately the Minke Whales were not really in a good mood. They behaved very shyly :( Fortunately we did encountered a little pod of White Beaked Dolphins approaching our boat and surfacing constantly. The sea was a bit moody on this trip therefore we decided to cancel our next trip at 12:55.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 8th 8:55
Nice morning , 10 to 15 minke whales ~ we started the tour visiting puffin Island and especially in the morning time there are incredibly many puffins gathering , flying above the island and also close to our boat . The weather changed a bit since yesterday and we had sunshine and good temperatures , a few drifting clouds and kinda calm sea , soft under waves that gave our tour even a more adventures feeling . When we sailed for a little while we saw big splashes ahead and as we came closer we spotted a big Minke Whale surfacing with its open mouth , skimming the fish from the water ~ we saw splashes all over the place and spotted about 10 to 15 minke whales in this tour . They all were feeding close to the surface and some of them came pretty close to our boat such as only 10 meters . We had a fantastic tour and now we are on our way to Reykjavik to have a dainty big hamburger to boost our self's for the next upcoming big whale tour ;))
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 8th 16:55
We've sailed very far out in this tour to find the whales we haven't found besides the many big huge whales this week , we wand to find all whales homing this bay ~ and so we sailed about 13 miles towards the ocean ~ searching for all secret whales of this week . The waves rolled us all the way out , beautiful ~ Gentle waves let the boat move loose up one wave and the slowly down , a nice thrill . We really enjoyed this weather and also we had a bit of sunshine around the corner ;) And then behind one wave a little cute minke whale made eyes on us while snapping for a little breeze ~ making us very happy and then disappearing into the deeps of the ocean . Then we really gotten wild and sailed very far ~ we sailed and sailed and then we stopped and watched around our boat ~ everything seamed incredibly silent out there . A few birds made the sound and then a sudden sound of a heavy breathing took our attention behind the boat , a big minke whale surfaced only 10 meters away from us and then disappearing into the deeps of the ocean and all became silent again . We sailed back to land because we wished to visit our puffin island and on the way back was none finite , so far we wend ;) Finally we reached the harbour area and were we were able to see land again ~ when another minke whale surfaced right ahead our boat and the disappeared into the deeps of the ocean . Sunshine came out from behind the mass of clouds and we almost arrived by the lighthouse when another less conspicuous minke whale surfaced alongside our boat showing us its black from the sunshine sparkling back and then disappearing into the deeps of the ocean ~ The end ~ the week is now over and so many whales we've seen this week , Minke Whales , 2 giant's ~ Fin whales , Withe beaked Dolphins , Harbour Porpoises and a big Humpback Whale ;))) We've got it all ~ wonderful week and now we tell you about this outstanding last week's tour . Really different then other tours we had this week and still we are laughing , with our guests , seeping on hot drinks and discussing this mysterious sailing out into the dense fog, waiting there for us ~ we were just about to enter the haze curton when we saw a huge minke whale jumping out of the water right ahead our fine yacht ~ the entire body of the animal was to see and this happy week whale breached several times , wend for a short dive and then again breached ( jumped ), about three quarter of its body lengs . We waited for the jester a couple of minits but then the ocean called for us and we sailed right into the mist of deep creeping clouds tinged with red and withe grey colours . Some of our passengers stood by the titanic front to fly with the splashing waves ~ after a while sailing we recognised with an slight minor scare in our sailors necks that we were all along out there , surrounded by dense fog consulting us from all sides of the boat . Our attention were taken when a big Minke Whale emerged all in a flash about 20 meters distance . Its spectacular big body was the last straw of our magical tour , cause not only the black back of the huge animal was to see ~ also the big pointed snout raised above the ocean surface and .. the hoggish jaw kept wide open ~ searching for tones of fish to feed . This Minke surfaced several times and then slap bang ~ the fog devoured this last creature of the week . We thought to sail out of the misty area and soon arrived by an island called lunday ~ a island which we never much visit but a soft breeze of upcoming winds took us there and while we were gliding above the last weeks waves were we saw many birds ~ Ganntes , Artic terns , Guillemots , Fulmars , Skuas , Puffins .. and close to the island a Eider duck welcoming us by the island were we remaind for a good while and then we sailed home ~
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 8th 12:55
We had to search for quit a long time by the feeding grounds and weather also changed more turbulence ~ but still quit fine to sail out . Waves raised more and then now after the tour calmed totally . First we visit puffin island were we spotted lots of them flying close by and also catching fish , which was pretty well visibly for us . Sailing further we spotted not right away and had to search ~ but soon we found 2 minke whales feeding in an area were we saw them this morning . Luckily enough they came fairly close to our boat , surfacing only a distance of 10 meters . Wonderful tour and we are happy to sail out again to strike more of the morning luck and many whales again ~
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 7th 16:55
We've sailed very far out in this tour to find the whales. We wanted to check with the big ones we spotted earlier this week. We sailed about 13 miles out from the shore ~ searching for all secret whales of this week. The waves rolled us all the way out , beautiful ~ Gentle waves let the boat move loose up one wave and the slowly down , a nice thrill . We really enjoyed this weather and also we had a bit of sunshine around the corner ;) And then behind one wave a little cute minke whale made eyes on us while snapping for a little breeze ~ making us very happy and then disappearing into the deeps of the ocean . Then we really gotten wild and sailed very far ~ we sailed and sailed and then we stopped and watched around our boat ~ everything seemed incredibly silent out there . A few birds made the sound and then a sudden sound of a heavy breathing took our attention behind the boat , a big minke whale surfaced only 10 meters away from us and then disappearing into the deeps of the ocean and all became silent again . We sailed back to land because we wished to visit our puffin island. Finally we reached the harbour area and were we were able to see land again ~ when another minke whale surfaced right ahead our boat and the disappeared into the deeps of the ocean . Sunshine came out from behind the mass of clouds and we almost arrived by the lighthouse when another less conspicuous minke whale surfaced alongside our boat showing us its black from the sunshine sparkling back and then disappearing into the deeps of the ocean ~
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 7th 12:55
After the morning tour first sunbeams bruise trough the already drifting clouds ~ we've spotted all together 4 minke whales . One minke whale we spotted very soon when we arrived by the bay and the other ones in our tour . We were extremely lucky cause it wasn't that easy to find whales since this morning . We have to search for a long time to find them and also wait for them to surface longer then on other days . But several times the minke whales appeared with an distance of only 10 meters which was nice ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 7th 8:55
Weather really was nice ~ ok well , we talking about sailors weather ;) The sea appears so beautiful when the colour of the surface is bright with slightly rolling waves , soft rain and a bit of a fresh morning haze awakened us to sail out into a new adventure . First we brewed a good strong captains cafe and then we were ready for a new day . The puffin island was packed and all of our little friends were already flying out to catch some fish and some we saw gathering in front of there nests , we also some birds very close flying by our boat . When we were replete ~ we sailed towards the ocean and soon spotted a big group of withe beaked dolphins nor far and when we sailed closer they approached us from all sides and we were able to see there body pretty well . They stayed with us 30 min and then we decided to leave and search for a bigger whale ~ and right ahead our boat , maybe only 40 meters distance we catch sight of one nice large sized minke whale . The creature surfaced several times and we had a real good time . We saw some birds , not many ~ but the Gannets , Puffins , many Artic Terns , Fulmars and the Guillemots . By the harbour side we have some Eider ducks passing by every day with there little chickens , maybe 5 little once ~ incredibly cute !
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 6th 16:55
Fin whales , 5 meters distance to our boat !!!! Wonderful tour and the best to day and one of the best this year !! We sailed towards the same area were we found earlier to day the Fin Whales and then ~ we first spotted 2 minke whales feeding close to our boat and we actually were really happy and didn't much expected to see the Fins again , just in case .. so we wouldn't be to disappointed if we didn't find them again . But then we decided to sail a bit further and there we saw a huge blow and we knew , we just knew . This sightings were even more stunning then earlier to day . The Fins , actually one of them cam only 5 meters close and several times it propelled itself out of the water , clearing the surface with two third of its body , falling forward ~ and several times we spout the blow of the other animal surfacing not that far . The hole event wend unbelievably terrific , the Fin several times showed us its outer side of flippers which was withe coloured and also we saw the withe belly when this beautiful animal rolled around above the water surface . Fins whales spend there summer months in the feeding grounds here at north and we are incredibly lucky to have had two of them here in our bay ~ which is quit unusually . Whale watching ~ Jackpot ;)))
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 6th 12:55
Outstanding tour ~ 2 big Fin Whales and one little Minke Whale !! ;))) Just when we were about to start searching for the whales one beautiful Minke Whale showed up right in front of our boat showing us its back and several times we were able to watch the animal from the side . But the we sailed around the bay and spotted several more Minke Whales which only surfaced for a little while and when we were to follow another Minke Whale we spotted a huge blow further out and since we knew from yesterdays evening tour that we have a big guest cruising around the bay ~ we followed the blow with good hope . Everyone with us seamed very excited about the animal and when we finally came closer we were lucky enough to become of evidence to watch a huge Fin Whale surfacing only 20 meters close to our boat !! We saw the the body incredibly well ~ such as the dark back with its with light streaks , kinda a bit blue grey light colours ~ also the sound of the big whale when breathing . The unique cetacean , wonderful and it moved very slow which gave us more time to observe all the body , like the is pointed head , wow ;) Not far we spotted one more Fin Whale ~ but we only gotten a good luck of the one next to our boat . Everybody was really happy and joyful for this event and now we are sailing towards the same area ~ maybe we are lucky to find the our 2 big rarely guests again ~
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 6th 08:55
This tour wend rather "strange " ;) After a small visit by the puffins we headed towards the feeding grounds and spotted right away a minke whale were we remained for some while ~ but the creature then surfaced several times and disappeared . We searched further and soon spotted withe beaked dolphins , quit many of them and they also seamed pretty occupied because they only stayed with us for about 10 minits . We were able to see them fairly well for some moment but wished to have them a longer time with us . Then we spotted 2 more minke whales and one more further out . The two minke whales we've spotted came closer to our boat but also seamed occupied and soon headed away . The , suddenly a group of harbour porpoises came out of nowhere and only 5 meters close to our boat and actually they just past our route , cause also them seamed to be occupied on there way to some more interesting place . All whales we've spotted i this tour seamed in a great hurry ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 5th 08:55
Nice sunny summer morning in Reykjavik and a big group of motivated guests who were ready to see some whales :) We started our trip at Akurey to observe the Puffins and saw a lot of them just flying around our boat...also very close so all these wonderful colours were visible to us. We kept on sailing for a bit and it did not take long until we found our first Minke Whale. The sea was so calm today that it was very easy to see whales as soon as they surfaced. All in total we spotted around 7-8 Minke Whales, some of them very close to us, just about 10m :) other animals we did see a bit further away. Everyone was very happy and enjoyed this wonderful Whale Watching Trip :)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 5th 16:55
On our last trip for today we spotted 3-4 Minke Whales. Some of them were a bit shy and did not really show a lot of themselves but we kept on sailing until we found one very calm one who was surfacing more often. Puffin Island was crowded ;) so many of theses little Sea Parrots flying around us...What a nice ending of an amazing and unforgettable Whale Watching Day!
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 5th 12:55
One word to say about this tour FINWHALE FINWHALE FINWHALE oops these are 3 words ;) What an amazing trip! We found this wonderful animal almost at the beginning of our trip and he was soooo active. He had really put on a show for us...rolled over a several times so we were able to see the white colour of his belly, his flippers and even the fluke (according to his diving pattern this whale species normally does not show the fluke) It was so exciting and everyone was having a great time. This animal is the second largest whale/ animal on earth...could reach 27m,around 80 tons and unfortunately endangered, only about 200.000 finwhales on earth. You do not see this every day and our crew was very happy to have found this incredible creature. Once in a while he was swimming very close to the surface of the water so that the white colour was very visible and we could almost have predicted where this animal will appear again. One time he was coming to us and surfaced just next to our boat. All of a sudden he rolled over at the same spot...that was so nice that the guide was almost speechless ;) After this great show it seemed that the Finwhale had gotten tired and did not surface often anymore therefore we kept on sailing and decided to find another whale species and found one Minke Whale who appeared a few times. On the way back we stopped at Akurey our Puffin Island. There is only one icelandic sentence that could describe this trip: Helviti goði tur!
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 4th 16:55
A really nice tour ~ we headed towards an area were we found several days ago a few minke whales and we really made our luck . One beautiful minke whale appeared close tour boat all over sudden and stayed with us all the time until another really wild tiger minke whale came that surfaced like a hyper maniac ~ keeping distance only between 5 and 10 meters close to our boat , leaving behind disgusting smells out of its big mouth and its body was really large and huge ~ that we've gotten almost frighten of this creature ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 4th 12:55
We were determined to find the Humpback Whales from this morning again but unfortunately they were swimming out of the area but we encountered a small little group of White Beaked Dolphins. They behaved a bit shy today (normally very curious animals) or maybe they were to busy feeding so that they did not really surface a lot therefore we kept on sailing. After that we found one Minke Whale who appeared once and then prefered to stay under water for a long time. We kept on looking and looking but did not find anything else so at the end of our trip we decided that this trip was not good enough and gave our passengers an extra ticket for free to join us again.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 4th 08:55
We started our trip this morning at Puffin Island where we met our little bird friends :) We kept on sailing and encountered 2-3 Minke Whales, some of them surfaced very close only 20m away from our boat. After we had observed them for a while we decided to keep on sailing, also because we wanted to show our guest a different whale species (there are 3 different whale species and one type of dolphin living in Faxafloi Bay) and what we found, was really something :) two beautiful Humpback Whales swimming very closely to one another and surfacing at the same time. Every time they appeared we saw a huge blow coming out their blowholes and whenever they went down for a deep-dive they showed their wonderful fluke. They were behaving very calmly and it was easy to follow them...one time there were only 25m in between us and them. Everyone was very happy and people started to say "ooooooo, woooooow" whenever the Humpback Whale appeared. It was amazing to see how these animals took all their time to show us their majestic fluke.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland june 3rd 16:55
our last tour to day and we wasn't that lucky as in our past tours to day ~ it remained difficult all along this tour and all together we've spotted up to 4 minke whales , but all of them were so occupied feeding . We spotted them several times and also it wasn't that bad , cause more then one time we had a minke whale surfacing only 10 meters close to our boat , which was terrific ~ but they always stayed only a very short time with us ~ surfacing only 2 to 3 times and then leaving us . All together still a nice tour , cause a lots of sunshine and several times a minke whale pretty close to our boat ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland June 3rd 12:55
This tour really rocked ;) We had so many guests , and especially from Germany and also many other country's visiting this tour and we thank all of you for this amusing atmosphere we enjoyed on this tour . First we headed out to puffin island and there we saw many puffins gathering on the island just in frond of there nests ~ we've gotten really nice pictures . Then everyone chilled and eat hot dogs and waffle , also we had sunshine and the morning clouds disappeared already long before we headed out again . We actually didn't sail very fare when we spotted a minke whale pretty close to our boat and we remained all the time with this beautiful creature . This whale was a really big great whale ~ because , sometimes it remained for quit a long time ( not more then 15 min ) under water munching all the fish and kept us waiting ;) But we forgave this really delightful whale , cause when it surfaced , then it really gave us a unbelievably good time showing all of its self alongside and also front side of our boat . We were able to observe all of the animals colours and once we saw the little white tint side flippers of our nice minke whale . One nice tour with one nice minke whale and nice people on a nice boat ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 3d 08:55
New day , new adventure and we had a fantastic tour ~ Weather was not in every ones favour , but appeared really magical this morning . The sea was covert with a soft morning haze of raindrops and bright clouds where covering the mountains around all the bay , since we had no winds the surface remained mirror like all along this tour and when we spotted our first whale it was a bit difficult ~ but soon we spotted another minke whale and this one came 10 meters close to our boat and surfaced several times all around our boat , but when we sailed towards land we had a big surprise because we spotted the love couple from yesterdays tour . Two minke whales all over sudden emerged in front of our boat with an big event for us to show . First they surfaced only 5 meters close and then they breached half way out of the water , but this was real odd , cause they breached at the same time . They breached about three quarters of their bodies out of the water and left lots of splashes and ..excitement :) Two hyper active minke whales , never seen something like that .. cause they kept on breaching at the same time and this several times ahead our boat and doing that act they also hasted away ~ like wild creatures that trough them self trough the water with lots of joy . The reason for breaching is still unknown , there can be many ~ but ... what do we know ... maybe they are just having a happy whale day ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 2.d 08:55
this tour wend pretty nice and well and a really good tour to start the new week ~ all together we spotted 5 minke whales in different areas . The really nice thing was that there was unbelievably many birds where the Minke Whales was feeding . It was really incredibly to watch and we had 2 Minke Whales very close to our boat , the surfaced only at a 10 meters distance close to our boat , right ahead ~ wonderful . This 2 Minke whales surrounded our boat all the time and we were able to behold there full body size which was quit huge . Really nice tour !
júl
Whale Watching Iceland may 2d at 12:55
Our second tour to day ;) We sailed to the same area were we found this morning many whales and we did find them again ~ First we stopped by the puffin island , like we do in all our tours and then headed out to the whales . The weather conditions to day are kind of gloomy , a denseness bank of clouds covering the bay together with occasional ease rain showers ~ warm summer rain , always when there is this kind of weather we have a calm sea conditions which makes it excellent to find the whales out there . We had good moments in this tour when a minke whale , really big one ~ surfaced only 5 meters close to our boat and all of our passengers were yelling loud out of joy to see a whale that close to almost touch it . Nice tour and all together we've seen about 4 minke whales and now we are on our way to Reykjavik , sipping on captains cafe and feast on sweet waffle which we offer in our cosy coffeehouse here on the Andrea Whale Yacht ;)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland may 2d at 16:55
Super nice tour this one ~ we visit first puffin Island cause a high tidal which is real good to get close to the Island and we did and saw many of those beautiful birds unbelievably close to our boat . Then we headed out and not long , our captain spotted a minke whale and when we all stood outside , really exciting about this beast it showed us its back and left . Well yes , mhh so we headed further and all of our passengers searched pretty brave and pointed all kinds of things the believed to see a whale in , waves , birds , currents ... but no whales ;) But , then they all spotted something and they were pretty certain it was there , we kept waiting and looking all around , and then yes .. a beautiful minke whale appeared ahead our boat , not only that we had discovered to have 2 minke whales ahead our boat and they were moving next to each other , very close .. a love couple ;) They showed us there love only 5 meters close to our boat ~ surfacing fairly smooth all the time ~ Gosh , it was so incredibly beautiful to watch them both .
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 1st 16:55
Our last trip for today was amazing. We encountered 3 of the 4 whale species that are living in Faxafloi Bay :) The Minke Whale is the first one that we spotted, surfacing twice close to our boat about 20m but unfortunately after that he decided to stay under water for a long time and we kept on sailing to find more. It did not take long until we found a wonderful pod of White Beaked Dolphins approaching us and people started to point into the water again. The White Beaked Dolphins have a big white stripe on their body which makes them very visible even in the water :) A little calf was part of them group surfacing just by himself but that changed quickly and two animals took care of him so the next time they surfaced the calf was in between two adults animal who were protecting the little one. The dolphins were lovely but our trip did not stop there we kept on sailing and encountered a Humpback Whale :) YEAH YEAH YEAH. This animal was behaving very calmly and did not swim long distances. He surfaced quite often but had not really gone down for a deep dive so that means that he did not show the fluke at all. But also this animal like the Minke Whale from this morning must have loved our boat because he surfaced twice just in front of us not even 10m away from the boat. Every time the Humpback Whale appeared, we saw the blow clearly, and whenever he was really close we heard him breathing. That noise really caused goose bumps. What an incredible Whale Watching Day just PERFECT :)
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 1st 12:55
On the second trip for this wonderful Whale Watching Day we found 3-5 Minke Whales (hard to say if the one from this morning was one of them, at least none of them were behaving like him) Some of them surfaced close and once in a while we could see the blow which looks like a fountain and is the old air that whales release through their blowholes. The sun was shining and the sea was so calm...it was just wonderful to be on a boat and to see so many Minke Whales.Also this trip was a success and we were looking forward to sailing out again.
júl
Whale Watching Iceland July 1st 08:55
What an unforgettable trip :) Today we encountered one Minke Whales who was sooooo curious and in love with our boat "Andrea" that he really had to approach us and not only once....no, he decided to stay with us and swam so close to the boat that the guide, sitting on the top-deck was not able to see this animal anymore. People on the lowest deck in front of the captain's house were pointing into the water, seeing the Minke Whale swimming next to them. This animal had so much fun that he even rolled over a couple of times and showed us his white belly. He swam from one side to another and our guests got very excited, going from one side to the other, pointing into the water, saying "oh my God" :) One time our favorite animal surfaced so close that people could have petted the whale. But the show was not over yet he kept on being close to us and it seemed that he is watching us so Whale Watching turned into Human & Boat Watching for the whale. The next time he appeared he surfaced with is mouth first and we could have almost seen his eyes. Unbelievable :)
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 29th 12:55
The sun is shining and being on sea is just wonderful :) on this trip we saw 3-4 Minke Whales some of them were not so shy anymore and surfaced more often also very close to our boat. One time really close that we could even see the white colour on his belly...so NICE ;)
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 29th 8:55
On our first trip today we spotted 3 very shy Minke Whales who prefered to stay under water for some time and unfortunately we could not see them well enough. On the way back to Reykjavik we stopped to see our Puffins and were rewarded there... the Island was quite crowded and we did see a lot of Puffins :) Talking about the trip and how it was, we decided that it was not good enough and gave our passengers an extra ticket to come again.
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 28th 16:55
This tour is named the never ending ~ in this tour wonderful cetacean like breaching Humpback , Minke whales and porpoises ~ The time we took and were we've been sailing to find whales , endless .. we've been so brave and this wend really adventures . The weather .................
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Whale Watching Iceland June 28th 12:55
Also this tour didn't disappointed us ~ first we visit the little birds , the puffins and there we had a fantastic time , there unbelievable many here on the islands this year . Some of them flew farily close by our boat and we saw there colours and especially the orange coloured pick , the trade mark of this cute bird :) Then we headed out and spotted the same small minke whale which we've seen in our last our close to the harbour area , but this time it was occupied feeding and this made us decide to sail further out ~ where for some while we wonder , cause we didn't found any whales , but we kept on searching and then sailing an different area were we final found a mother and a calf minke whale feeding ~ the little one remained very curious close to our boat and the mother further chasing birds sometimes ( well , it kinda looked like that ;) ) throwing itself trough the water surface and making splashes . Both minke whales came pretty close to our boat ! We really enjoyed this tour
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 28th 8:55
The rain paused and only a bit of wind raised over night and in this tour we were really lucky to found a Humpback ! This beautiful creature remained close to our boat and quit often showed us its tail fluck which was amassing . Sometimes the Humpback stayed for a long time under the water ~ but just on the end we of this tour we had a fantastic time , because it surfaced quit often . We have Humpback whales here in this Bay from time to time and to day we can call ourselves unbelievably lucky . we also spotted many minke whales and just when we came close to the harbour area we saw one minke whale surfacing only 5 meters distance to our boat . Wonderful tour ~ Nous avons observe des baleines a bosses, quelle chance. Nous avons aussi observe des petits rorquals, des marsouins communs, de majestueux mammiferes. Les touristes francais sont magnifiques , et les guides geniaux. nous avons mange une baguette et de la confiture. Les capitaines sont excellents et la serveuse aussi.La journee s annonce bien : le panorama est ensoleille, la mer calme et l horiyon s ouvre a nous . C. est desolee pour ce qu elle a dit a gulliom, L ocean lui rappelle la Seine. Quelle journee formidable, apres la pluie vient le beau temps . mon coeur bat tres fort.
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 27th 16:55
The last tour ~ oh the weather was beautiful , well it is not in everybody opinion to call this nice kind of weather beautiful ;) We spent a little time by the harbour having a pause and then it started raining , a lot ~ which gave us a refresher shower and then we sailed towards the same area and it kept raining all the time above the still silent sea surface and above the mountains we saw sightly fog raining and different coloured clouds were raising which gave the hole sailing a magical character . When we arrived we spotted right ahead our boat a rather big Minke Whale surfacing and then it didn't took long time when the animal surfaced again unbelievably close . while we remained with this beautiful creature the silents of the sea made it incredible nice and able to listen to the sound of the whale breathing when surfacing only 5 meters close to our boat .
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 27th 12:55
Once again we had a magnificent tour to day ~ heading out , this time towards an different area we spotted 3 Minke whales and one of them kept close to our boat which was of course excellent to observe this animal from all sides . It surfaced quit often close and also several times we were able to see its triangulated snout coming up first when surfacing ~ which gave us a number of good moments out there . This Minke whales seamed real huge and when we were about to sail back to Reykjavik we we also spotted harbour porpoises . Since the sea condition remained silent we had a good time watching them , they are very small and sometimes when the waves are to high we don't really get a good prospect of the small whales . It was possibly to see the gray colours of the animal and they came as well pretty close to our boat which is kinda unusual . Nice tour , everybody is happy .
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 27th at 08:55
A really nice tour ~ we sailed towards the same area were we found yesterday many Minke Whales and for that we had to sail quit far out ~ but the weather , my favourite weather . The ocean showed a beautiful mirror smooth glossy surface , there was not much of sunshine like yesterday's , but this gave it a real silent atmosphere and when we saw the Minke Whales surfacing only 5 meters close to our boat ~ which was incredibly . Sometimes the ocean is completely silent and then to watch or listen to the sound of the whales breathing when surfacing are the best tours . There was something really hilarious about this Minke Whales cause this lovely creature left behind a awful smell every time it emerged close to our boat ~ the first time I thought it was rigorous to bear a whales smelly breath ;) But this creature gave us a real good time remaining all time close to our boat ~ very good show and now we are heading towards the puffin island to show our nice passengers the little clowns of the sea ~ a silent magical tour .
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 26th 12:55
Our stop at Akurey ,which is our Puffin Island for today, was wonderful. So many Puffins on the Island, sitting on the water just in front and at one point they just took off right in front of us and were flying all around us. Also on this trip we found the shy Minke Whales again and stayed with them for a while until we found one very active one, so active that he changed directions constantly and people moved from one side to another, starting laughing.This whale also decided to appear next to our boat and everyone got their perfect picture and one time we were able to hear this wonderful creature, just when he surfaced. What an amazing Whale Watching Day...we can not wait to go out again, especially being outside on our sunshine-deck ;)
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 26th 8:55
Lovely sunshine in Reykjavik and a very calm sea, these are the best conditions to go out Whale Watching :) This morning we welcomed a lot of nice and motivated tourists who were ready to see some whales. We sailed to Faxafloi Bay -our Whale Watching Area- where we soon encountered some Minke Whales who were rather shy or maybe just still tired on this tuesday morning. We spotted 2 animals further away but we decided to sail to them and see if they would behave differently and they did ;) Those two were more active and one of them was showing his flipper and scared some birds away ;) They were surfacing constantly and sometimes really close to our boat. A couple of times we also saw the Minke Whale´s blow and people started to point. Unfortunately we had to sail back but all of a sudden 2 little Harbor Porpoises showed up and they really like to join us, especially one animal in particular, got so close and surfaced just in front of our vessel. We saw this tiny whale in the water and could predict where he would surface again. What a nice trip-full of Sunshine, Whales and Puffins.
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 26st 16:55
On our last trip for today we had to sail out very far so far that we could have almost dropped off people at Keflavik, at the International Airport to catch flights back home-we made some jokes about this on board ;) Finally we spotted some blows in the distant and our patience was rewarded with the appearance of 4-5 Minke Whales and this time not shy :) surfacing next to our boat. One animal was very visible in the water so finally we were able to the tail of a Minke Whale (only in the water) The Minke Whale does not show his tail when he goes down to dive therefore it was very special to see it at least in the water and so close. Some of these beautiful marine mammals approached us and surfaced slowly starting by their mouth, followed by the blow holes and ending with the dorsal fin. Awesome day today and we hope that it will continue like this tomorrow :)
jún
Whale Watching Iceland may 25th at 08:55
Whale Watching Time in Reykjavik, also on this wonderful monday morning. On our trip today we spotted a few little pods of Harbor Porpoises :) sometimes very close to our boat and our motivated passengers started pointing because of one animal swimming just below the surface of the water...amazing to see that. But that was of course not enough we soon encountered about 3-4 Minke Whales :) some of them were a bit shy so we kept on sailing a bit further where we found more Harbor Porpoises who escorted us along our trip and they even started jumping and splashing. Everyone was very pleased with that but the tour was not over yet. Our highlight of this tour was the appearance of two Minke Whales surfacing at the same time very close to one another and only 20meters in front of our boat...everyone was very happy and we can not wait to go out Whale Watching again!
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 25th 16:55
Amazing last trip today :) First of all we encountered some Minke Whales about 3-4 who were rather shy and prefered to stay under water for quite a while therefore we decided to keep on sailing to find more and our search was very successful. We saw at least 5 Minke Whales having dinner but we were not the only guests joining them, also a lot of Seagulls and Arctic Terns wanted to get their share of the dinnerparty. It was incredible to see how they were enjoying their food. Some of them approached our boat and we saw them very close, only about 5m from the boat. Everyone was very satisfied and did not want to go back to Reykjavik ;) What a wonderful Whale Watching Day!
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 24th 12:55
This tour wend completely differently as in the morning ~ also really nice tour , cause we had the company of mainly one minke whale close to our boat . This beauty , real big one remained whole tour with us and we had good moments watching the animal surfacing only 10 meters distance , the large black .......
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 24th 8:55
Yes ~ super tour ;) Fantastic , now we are on our way back home to Reykjavik and we are so happy about this tour , slurping captains cafe at the top deck and still now and then we catch sight of several Minke Whales alongside our fine whale yacht . People are really excited ~ still.. exchanging photographs.......
jún
Whale Watchign Iceland June 23rd 16:55
In this tour we didn´t actually go for Whale Watching. We had a large group of passengers enjoying them self after a busy days. Great food, vine etc was served on board and we sailed slowly around the islands in the Faxafloi bay. Nice evening tour where we even were so lucky to spot for a short time Harbour porpoises.
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 23rd 8:55
The bay looked just beautiful , silent . to days weather came with sunshine pure and almost no clouds above the sky ~ we could tell by instinct that there are many whales out to day and .. so it was. After a small visit by the puffin island we sailed towards the feeding grounds and not to long time ~ we spotted a first blow ahead our vessel. When we came closer we spotted many Minke Whales close and further . All together we've seen up to 10 Minke Whales in this tour and several groups of harbour porpoises passing bye . Wonderful tour !
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 23rd 12:55
A difficult one ~ we headed out into the sunshine once again , wonderful weather all day . A bit of wind raised while sailing towards the feeding ground , we were really optimistic after our successful morning tour .. and then .. we spotted 2 Minke Whales in this tour , but both individuals wasn't into our boat , really occupied feeding . When we spotted the first Minke Whale we remained for quite a long time at the same spot to try and find it again ~ but , it took its time ... so sorry.. another day a better moment will come ! On our way back we saw many harbour porpoises surfacing and once pretty close to our boat , only 5 meters . Harbour porpoises are the smallest cetaceans here in the bay and usually they are really shy , but in this tour they came fairly close to our boat . We handed our passengers a complimentary ticket to our brave and still very optimistic passengers and hopefully will see them in fallowing days with us again .
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 22nd 16:55
Still sunshine and best conditions make it easy to enjoy the calm evening atmosphere on board. We head strait out to the whales again. This time the minkes are very calm and remain at the surface for a long time. The tour is so great that we start a little early to the island. All the birds are at home as we see. a great tour also due to the people "celebrating" their holiday in iceland on board the ANDREA!
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 22nd 12:55
This afternoon we guide in English, German and Norwegian! After the beautiful show in the bay this morning we go first to the whales now. And WOW there are 50 to 100 great gannets with a wingspan of more than 2 meters busy fishing. a great place to watch out for some whales and: YES!! Minke whales and Harbour porpoises! All there; heaving a feast in the bay! The porpoises started jumping several times and one time even one of the minkes almost lifted the whole body out of the water!!!! Coming very close to the ship the whales really excited us in this tour. Puffins were visited on the way back. Both on board and in the bay a nice celebration.
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 22nd 8:55
What a nice morning! The day after midsummer in Iceland beautiful sunshine welcomes us in the harbour. In this firs tour of the day the guidelanguages are english, french and japanese!!! Our lovely puffins are visited first this morning and a couple of hundred birds wait for us in the island akurey. Out in the bay we found several minke whales and harbor porpoises. All whales, toothed and baleen showed so well that everybody could see them well and we took a lot of pictures. A good mood 3 language tour with a lot of whales.
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 21st 12:55
Wow such an amazing trip. We saw about 4 Minke Whales and one of them appeared close in front of our boat. Twice we were able to see the blow clearly and it was even possible to hear the noise of it as well. You always start to get goose bumps as soon as you hear it...just wonderful. We also saw a lot of Harbor Porpoises, sometimes even close to our boat...normally they are known to be rather shy animals but today they were very curious. That was of course not enough, while we were sailing, we suddenly spotted a little group of White Beaked Dolphins. Three of them were surfacing constantly at the same time right in front of our boat and we saw the long white stripe which covers their body. What a successful trip and we can not wait to go out again so come and join us on the next trip!!! :)
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 21st 08:55
Whale Watching Time :) Nice weather in Reykjavik...sunshine and a calm sea are perfect conditions to go out and find whales but first we sailed to Akurey our Puffin Island and saw these cute birds flying all around us. After that we were sailing to Faxafloi where we soon encountered some Minke Whales who sometimes surfaced very close next to our boat. All of a sudden some Harbor Porpoises appeared and normally they are shy animals but there was one animal approaching us and it surfaced only 2m in front of our boat :) What a successful and wonderful trip!
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 22th 16:55
We spotted 3-4 Minke Whales who were rather shy but very visible. Also our little friends the Harbor Porpoises joined us again on this trip and once in a while very close to our boat. Very nice Whale Watching Day :)
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 20th 08:55
What a wonderful trip :) we started with our Puffin Island, on this trip it was the Island of Akurey on which we encountered a lot of Puffins flying all around us and sometimes even very close so we were able to see their colourful beak which is also the reason that we would call them Sea Parrots or Clown of the Sea. After that we sailed into our Whale Watching Area where we soon spotted some Minke Whales about 4-5 animals but that was not enough we also saw a little group of Harbor Porpoises (normally very shy animals but not this time) they approached us and we were even able to see the whole animal in the water and could predict where they would surface again. One Minke Whale surfaced next to our boat just about 10m away...amazing, we could even hear him breathing which is an incredible noise :) Very successful tour!!!
jún
Whale Watching Iceland June 21th 12:55
This time we first sailed out to Faxafloi Bay-our Whale Watching Area- where we encountered some Minke Whales about 3-4 animals and some of them were surfacing close to our vessel. All of a sudden some Harbor Porpoises joined us but this time they were rather shy and just appeared twice and left us immediately after that. On the way back we stopped at Akurey where we did our bird watching for today and also this time it was very successful...lots of Puffins around.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 19th 16:55
This evening the wind became quiet strong and we even had some rain. But our tourists were almost all the time outside and searching for whales, even though it was quiet difficult to spot them. We found finally a few harbour porpoises and at least one minke whale which was playing hide and seek with us. But he lost because we spotted him every now and then in about 40 m distance.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 19th 12:55
Whale watching is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you gonna get. But it´s always exciting. This afternoon we had some more wind and some waves as well. Arriving at the puffins in Akurey they just had a siesta on the water surface, so we could see hundreds of them quiet close to the boat. On our way to the feeding grounds of the whales it seemed first quiet difficult to spot the animals, but suddenly both harbour porpoises and minke whales appeared. Even though the diving times of the whales were much longer than usual, we did see again eight to ten animals all around the boat, surfacing every now and then and surprising us with being directly next to our boat.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 19th 8:55
The early bird catches the whale! This day started quiet cloudy but with almost no waves and not much wind. Hundreds of puffins were sitting on the water surface at Akurey and we didnt had to sail far out to find our first whales. After only half an hour appeared the first minke whale right next to the boat and after him followed some more of them. We had at least eight to ten minke whales around the boat in a distance of 10 to 60 metres, their blows were clearly visible and they surfaced very often. A very good trip.
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Whale watching Iceland June 18th 16:55
Our last tour for today on this nice sunny day in Reykjavik. First of all we started with our bird watching and sailed to Akurey our Puffin Island which was as crowded as Lundey on our trip before. It is so nice to see that so many Puffins have returned to Island :) This Puffin Watching was followed by our whale watching in Faxafloi bay...we had to sail out quite far until we encountered a nice little group of White Beaked Dolphins, 2 of them were jumping constantly...it seemed that they had a contest going on between each other "Who jumps better, nicer and higher" we stayed a little bit with them until we ran out of time and sailed back to Reykjavik.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 18th 12:55
The weather and the sea are still wonderful :) Our second trip for today started in our Whale Watching Area where we spotted our Minke Whales from this morning again and even the little calf. 4-5 Minke Whales also on this trip...just very nice to see them surfacing and the sunshine shining on their skin. On the way back to Reykjavik we stopped at Lundey to see the Puffins and also Lundey was very crowded, Puffins flying all around...lovely to see these little Clowns of the Sea (one of their nicknames ;) Amazing trip!
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Whale Watching Iceland June 18th 08:55
Wow amazing weather in Reykjavik today...a lot of sunshine and a very calm sea, these are the best conditions to go out Whale Watching. This morning we were on our way to Akurey our Puffin Island but an appearance of a Minke Whale stopped us before we could get there. This Minke Whale was a little calf swimming all my himself just in front of Reykjavik´s coast. It was quite fast and changed direction constantly and he mostly just surfaced once until he let us wait for bit to appear again. It was wonderful to see this animal but we also wanted to see our bird friends, the Puffins, so we kept on sailing to Akurey where we saw a lot of Puffins flying all around us. After that we sailed into our Whale Watching Area where we soon encountered a little group of Harbor Porpoises and suddenly also more Minke Whales :) about 5 wanted to join us this was of course not enough today so we also spotted a pod of White Beaked Dophins about 6 animals surfacing all together at the same time :)...fantastic to watch!!! What a trip :) more than successful...we can not wait to go out again ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 17th 16:55
What a nice late afternoon, the sun was shining and we sailed to Akurey our Puffin Island on which those little sea parrots were sitting on the Island and flying all around us. Being in our Whale Watching Area it did not take long until we found a Minke Whale who surfaced constantly but all of a sudden we were almost surrounded by them. We had 6-7 animals around us. We even found a little calf who was confident enough to approach our boat and we saw it closely surfacing three times next to our boat, so close that we could even hear the noise of the blow. (the noise that a whale makes when he is breathing) What an amazing trip...Great success today on our Icelandic National Day :)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 17th 12:55
This time we went to Lundey instead of Akurey, both of them are our Puffin Islands and also on Lundey we did see a lot of these wonderful birds, flying all around us :) In our Whale Watching Area we spotted 4 Minke Whales. Very nice to look at...surfacing close to the boat.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 17th 08:55
Today is the 17th June and that means Icelandic National Day "Til hamingju Island!" Also on our National Day we go out Whale Watching :) This morning we sailed to Lundey our Puffin Island where we saw a lot of Puffins flying all around us, very close as well, so we were able to see the brightly colourful beak clearly. Puffins are also called Parrots of the Sea because of all these wonderful colours. After that we sailed to our Whale Watching Area, Faxafloi Bay in which we encountered some Minke Whales surfacing close to our boat :) we stayed with them for a while until we unfortunately had to sail back to Reykjavik.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 16th 16:55
Also the last trip turned out to be quite difficult :( we spotted one Minke Whale who left us immediately after that we encountered a little group of White Beaked Dolphins but also they left us soon. Therefore we decided that this trip was not good enough and gave our passenger an extra ticket for free.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 16th 12:55
The weather was still nice but unfortunately it was very difficult to find something. We spotted two Minke Whales who only surfaced once and they were not visible to everyone so we decided that this trip was not good enough and gave our passenger an extra ticket for free.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 16th 08:55
Lovely sunny morning in Reykjavik and a lot of nice people joining our first trip today. In our whale watching area we did see three Minke Whales...we stayed with them for a while until they went down for a deep dive and we encountered a nice little group of White Beaked Dolphins, all of them were surfacing constantly at the same time...wonderful to look at. :) On the way back we stopped at Akurey our Puffin Island where we saw a lot of them flying around us.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 15th 12:55
What a nice sunny day in Reykjavik :) perfect to go out Whale Watching! This morning we sailed first out to our Whale Watching Area in which we soon encountered a Minke Whale who surfaced a couple of times close to our boat.The sea was so calm that it was no problem to see whales as soon as they appeared and all of a sudden we had three Minke Whales around us. Everyone was very excited about that and started to say "OOOOOh, wonderful!" every time the Minke Whale showed himself :) On the way back we stopped at Puffin Island which was quite crowed :) Puffins flying and swimming all around us :) What a great ending of a very successful tour! :)
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Whale Watching Iceland may 16th at 16:55
Our last trip turned out to be a bit difficult :( we sailed out very far and were looking and looking for whales. We almost sailed to Snæfellsnes were we saw some dolphins (very far away) but unfortunately they were swimming to fast away from us and we did not see them clearly :( therefore we gave our nice passengers an extra ticket for free and wish them luck for their next trip with us.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 14th 08:55
It was a great day , we saw minke whales, harbour porpoise and an amazing sunny landscape. An Happy morning with a lot of great nature meeting. We had a great conversation with the french people, thay was so nice and friendly. We bring french baguette on the boat and had a french breakfeast in the cafetariat. C etait une journee formidable, nous avons vu des petits rorquals, des marsouins communs et le panorama exceptionnel de la baie de flaxowe. L equipage s est bien amuse, et les passagers ont apprecie cette journee extraordinaire. Les francais a bord etaient splendides, nous avons fait des rencontres inoubliables. Nous avons pris le petit dejeuner avec une baguette et de la confiture. Les capitaines sont geniaux et d excellents navigateurs.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 14th 12:55
This tour wend rather " normal " , nothing outstanding we can talk of , like yesterdays jumping whales , no , just one single minke whale surfacing close to our boat , but fairly close which saved our tour a bit . The weather appeared still beautiful and further out we spotted a tempest roaring above the mountains , bright thunder bolds were to see trough the dark black tinted clouds , something you don't see every day here in Iceland , kinda magnificent view , then warm rain pure down on us and we took of our clothes ... no ;) Well , now we are back by the Reykjavik port slurping hot chocolate and slowly first sunbeams squeeze trough the endmost rainy clouds ~ beautiful colours ~ we are looking forward sailing in to a new adventure now on our evening tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 13th 16:55
What a day , what an ending of this day ;)))) YEHHHH ;) Jumping Minke Whale(s) ~ after our previous tour where we had to sail pretty far and spotted the humpback we thought to sail again for a long time and just when we were on half way out we spotted huge splashes further and they wouldn't stop at all and when we appeared closely we figured a breaching minke whale . An event that only happens few times a year , cause the animal breached about 20 .. 30 times and then wend town and again breached consecutive . The strangest thing was that we thought it is moving quit fast suffering some hyperactivity ;) because just 2 minits later the Minke Whale jumped at a totally different , further pitch and this were quit confusing ~ while we recognised that we had all together 3 breaching Minke whales fairly close to our boat and all of them at a distance of about 200 meters . Unforgettable moments in this tour ! There no words to describe this terrific tour . We have seen 3 jumping Minke Whales int his tour all around our boat ~ Unbelievable ;) picture is taken by Coen van Noordewijk from the Netherlands
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Whale Watching Iceland June 13th 12:55
HUMPBACK ALARM!!!!! We began the tour at the island Lundey and puffins came ewonderfully close. Out in the bay there was soo much life this time! We quicklz found 5 or 6 minke whales but went further and further and found a HUMPBACK WHALE. It came as close as 7 to 10 meters to our ship and surfaced many times close to us. also the minke whales came as close as 10 meters. On the way out and in harbour porpoises surrounded us and were bow riding next to the ANDREA. An excellent tour in outstanding weather with many big whales!
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Whale Watching Iceland June 13th 8:55
We started the day at the island Akurey and it is amazing to see the birdlife there! Out in the bay it was difficult to find the whales. Still we found a minke whale and some harbour porpoises. According to our high standards we could not show the whales well enough to our passengers and invited everybody for a new tour.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 11th 12:55
Our second and last tour for today. The sun was still shining and this time we stopped first at Akurey to visit our little bird friends; the Puffins. Also this time we had to sail out quite far in order to find some whales. We spotted one of the three who decided to stay with us for a short while until he prefered to stay under water. We kept on sailing a bit and found another one who surfaced a couple of times. Successful Whale Watching Day :)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 11th 08:55
A lot of very nice tourists joined us on this wonderful sunny morning in Reykjavik. We sailed to our Whale Watching area and it seemed that the whales were still asleep :( Whales are like humans that means that they have difficulties to get up on monday mornings after the weekend ;) Therefore we had to be patient until we finally encountered 3 Minke Whales who put on a show for us. One of them was very active, turned around a couple of times so we were able to see his belly and even the tiny flippers. They were feeding and prefered to stay close to our boat. All of a sudden some Harbor Porpoises joined the breakfast buffet :) Amazing trip!!! On our way back we stop at our Puffin Island Akurey which was quited crowded...a lot of Puffins sitting on the water, flying around and being on the Island. I would say that sometimes it pays off to be patient :)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 10th 12:55
A beautiful afternoon in the bay! First we headed out to the Island where we observed all the puffins. In the bay we first found a minke whale that was feeding a lot and spend a lot of time under the surface. we went further through the whale watching area and found a pod of dolphins. Adult animals and calfs swimming side by side. They stayed with us for more than 15 minutes and came as close as 2 to 3 meters from the ship. Nice to see them under the surface! on the way back to the harbour we had a little stop by some porpoises. Best spotting of the tour were definitely the white beaked dolphins!
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Whale Watching Iceland June 10th 8:55
Wonderful tour ~ weather conditions were unbelievably , not ok ~ not that much sunshine , but the colour of the surface appeared helpfully bright which is very good to spot whales . There was no wind at all and an fresh breeze of sea wind all along this tour . We had many french guests on our tour and there was so much fun we had ! Very nice group ;) We stopped first by the puffin island and ........
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Whale Watching Iceland June 9th 12:55
We are just passing the lighthouse here close to Reykjavik ~ on our way back home , having a fantastic tour behind us . Plenty of Minke whales in this tour and also harbour porpoises jumping out of the water . Sunshine all along this tour and we are ... happy once again that this tour wend so luckily ;) When we finished our delicious lunch by the harbour and boiling a new pot of cafe for the upcoming afternoon we were ready ~ for a new adventure , sailing above ...........
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Whale Watching Iceland June 9th 8:55
What an outstanding morning! At the island we saw several hundreds of puffins. In best sea conditions and sunshine we headed out to the bay. We had about 7 minke whales in the area and several ones showed well. They came as close to the ship as 10 meters and sometimes we could hardly decide there to look first!! 2 or 3 of them in a short distance from the ship. - WOW- One of them put on a special show it started to roll right below the surface and showed its side flippers and fluke! Another time it almost breached / jumped out of the water. In between we spotted a lot of harbour porpoises. A really outstanding morning and the tour was guided in english and german.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 10th 16:55
Weather really became nice on this our , also our guests seamed really joyful for this tour . We headed to the same area were we found earlier to day many Minke whales and withe beaked dolphins ~ in good times ;) Yes , in its awfully true ~ we haven't found any whales in this tour ;( We cruised all along the bay , all kinds direction and everybody seam so helpful , cause from time to time we thought to have spotted a blow and also once a black back of an Minke whale , but it always turn out an empty ocean , but sunshine pure ~ beautiful !! Our evening tours are always lots of fun , we had a group of Canadian and German people and we had really a good time making jokes over this situation , searching the sea for whales , in our hands hot chocolate and sun milk ;) Actually those tours are the best once , when a smaller group becomes very personal and there is one most important thing on our boat all along this tour and its called ..humour ;) Really , it was an wonderful tour , many of our guests say it will be one of the most unforgettable tour here in Iceland and in fallowing days they joy us again for another tour , of course we gave all of our guests a complementary ticket to come again with us to finally see the whales , the whale , big one ~ they really tried hart , nice team ~ thanks to all for a really fun evening tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 8th 16:55
Humpback whale back in the bay ~ Wonderful ;) Humpback whales typically migrate up to 25,000 kilometres each year and feed over the summer time in polar waters , and that for quit often we are about to see them here in our bay , ones there are on there way up north ~ they stop here for several day cause of the reach feeding grounds Faxi bay got to offer . We headed strait out towards whale area and actually just were to enjoy the outside scenery ~ still far from the feeding grounds as we suddenly spotted a huge blow right ahead our vessel and when the animal surfaced we saw the famous fluke of an humpback whale , distance approx only 20 meters . Happily we were screaming for joy and waited for the animal to surface again which happened right after and pretty close to our boat . We've gotten really nice moments with this creature while it remained close to our vessel for some time , but soon the Humpback changed its behaviour and headed towards direction Reykjavik , unbelievably close to land and then again moved towards the bay ~ for some then while we weren't able to see much of the animal and waited for a long time for it to surface again , but we were really happy on the beginning of our tour when we saw the Humpback fairly close to our vessel ! We kept distance to the animal and just when we was about to leave we had one more good moment watching the Humpback surfacing by only 20 meters distance . Quit often we saw the fluke when the animal wend and disappeared for a dive ~ it always was one big event for us ;) Really lucky tour and on our way back home we visited the puffin island where we had a good time observing the little clowns of the sea close to our boat and also gathering by the island in front of there nests . Fantastic evening tour ~ we are so happy ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 8th 12:55
We had first a stop by the puffins and every time it is amazing to see soo many of these cute birds. Out in the bay we ha first one minke whale and a short spotting of harbour porpoises. As we continued to another point in the bay we found about 5 minke whales and many porpoises that came as close as 2 meters. people even observed them below the surface! The minkes came as close as 10 meters from the ship and stayed during the whole tour.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 8th 08:55
We sailed , with us this wonderful weather conditions covert with sunshine , warm ease breezes of winds , really nice weather ! We first made a small stop by the puffin island where we've seen plenty of puffins this morning . The Island was filled with birds and we remained for a while there ~ enjoying the silence . We sailed further out and just when we arrived by the feeding ground we've spotted our first Minke Whale in this tour , the animal surfaced pretty far but soon came closer to our boat . All together we've spotted 5 Minke Whales in this area and we visit all of them , observing the in there feeding behaviours . Just as we were to sail back we spotted one Minke Whale surfacing only 10 meters close to our boat which gave us a really good time ! We never case the whales and give them the choice to approach our boat more closely and here one animal came really close with out us ~ everybody seamed really happy in this tour and on our way back we had some good time talking and exchanging photographs with one and each other ;) Nice tour !
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Whale Watching Iceland June 5th 08:55
This morning the wind was a bit fresher and we had an extiting day ahead. At first we headed out to the puffin island and there is so much life in the island evety time we come there. Out in the bay there were incredibley many birds. Northern fulmar, Black guillemot, black backed Gull, Herring gull, Puffins, arctic tern and a lot of great gannets. The gannets were spectacular to watch when they "fell" out of the sky to go fishing. Several times we cought sight of minke whales but it was a bit difficult for our passengers to see them due to the Wind. Those that did not see enough were invited for another tour.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 5th 12:55
the weather remained kinda wavy in this tour and when we sailed towards the whales feeding ground we sailed up and down above the ocean surface :) Some enjoyed this tour quit a lot and some not mmmm well ... , and when we arrived at the same area were we spotted some whales this morning there was no single whale to find, which made us decide to sail towards an different direction and there we were really lucky ! One beautiful big Minke Whale suddenly turn up ahead our vessel and gave us a good time showing fairly much of itself ~ trowing itself trough the waves and one time surfacing that close that we were able to see the black shadow underneath the surface ~ the animal moved towards our boat and it was so exciting, people were screaming for joy when the Minke Whale surfaced only 5 meters close to our boat ~ coming up with its triangulate south first , what an magnificent picture we've gotten ~ wonderful moment . One more time the Minke Whale appeared alongside our boat and there we saw again all of it pretty well . Further out we spotted one more Minke Whale ~ the black of the animal reflecting underneath the sunbeams but we decided to remain with our Minke Whale that surfaced several times unbelievably close . Trough the wavy weather conditions the atmosphere seamed pretty adventures and when we sailed back we made an small stop by the Puffin Island where we stayed for some good while and saw many of those wonderful little cute birds catching there bay . Not an super tour , but extremely adventures and fun which made it perfect for us !
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Whale Watching Iceland June 5th 16:55
In the afternoon we expacted another windy tour but actually the wind had calmed down a lot and we cought sight of Harbour porpoises and a nice minke Whale thich surfaced many times around the ship. A beautiful tour in the icelandic evening sun in the bay. On the way back we stopped at the Island an saw puffins and even eider ducks. Also these day we often see some eider ducks and their chicks in the harbour right by the ANDREA!
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Whale Watching Iceland June 4th 8:55
This Morning we started with a stop by hundreds of Puffins at the Island ~ a wonderful monday to start this week . Many of them sat in front of the nesting holes, even more flying around the island. As close as 2 meters from us! Out in the bay it was wonderful to see more than 10 minke whales!! All the Time they remained in less than 30 meters from the Ship and once we were that lucky to observe the animal from only 5 meters distance right ahead our boat ~ showing us its withe belly and rolling around . In between some harbour porpoises surfaced pretty close to our boat , a rather small group ~ but so cute to watch them from the shurt distance . The sourroundigs were beautiful ~ together with the sunshine which gave us an incretebly clear few to the montains and sealife . The ocean was so silent to day which made us quite often listen to the breathing sound of the big creatures ;) Now we are sailing back home ~ devouring a huge hamburger and then sailing back out to a new adventure .. mmmm ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 5th 16:55
Afternoon we sailed out a 3rd time today and in the bay we had a little bit more wind than in the first and second tour. We found 4 minke whales all in all but they seemed to have dinner time during our tour. They remained under the surface for long times and surfaced only 2 times in a row. nice to see also the schooner from the faroe Islands passing by. all passengers got a new ticket ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 4th 12:55
The weather to let us enjoy the tours even more ~ after devouring the huge hamburger , sunbathing on our fine yacht we headed out into a new adventure and there was nothing much new , we haven't been disappointed in this tour ;) Withe beaked dolphins approached our boat from further and then appeared unbelievably close to our boat , only 2 meters distance ! They remained for a long time and then also surfaced alongside , all around us . Fantastic ! Minke whales everywhere to day ~ in this tour we saw 4 minke whales . One individual surfaced suddenly incredibly close which gave us a good moment to observe the big animal . People were really happy on this tour , really good atmosphere ! Wonderful tour and now after a small stop by puffin island we are heading back to land were we will have yummi ice cream ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 4th 16:55
Afternoon we sailed out a 3rd time today and in the bay we had a little bit more wind than in the first and second tour. We found 4 minke whales all in all but they seemed to have dinner time during our tour. They remained under the surface for long times and surfaced only 2 times in a row. nice to see also the schooner from the faroe Islands passing by. all passengers got a new ticket ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland June 3rd 16:55
A decent end to the fisherman's Day in Iceland was the third tour of the Day. We started off at the island Akurey to watch the Puffins than headed out to the bay. A lot of minke whales and some porpoises. When arriving back in Reykjavik we still had beautiful sunshine!
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Whale Watching Iceland June 3rd 12:55
Wonderful weather! Wonderful minke whales! We had the luxury of only searching for a short time and quickly finding several minke whales. As close as 5 meters from the ship and even 2 at the same time. On the way back we watched the birds by the island Akurey.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 3rd 8:55
On the fishermansday we had first a stop by the island to watch the birds. Out in the bay we had soo many minke whales and some harbour porpoises. For a long time a mother and very small calf were close by the ship. One of our high standard tours with a lot of whales in best weather!
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Whale Watching Iceland June 2nd 16:55
BLACK AND WHITE can be the motto of this tour! This time we started with a stop by the puffins. Out in the bay it started off a bit difficult. We found some porpoises and some minke whales which all showed either far away from the ship or only for a short moment. for a long time a group of porpoises was the best spotting. than suddenly there were huge splashes in a far distance. Again! Such a splash can only be caused by a big baleen whale jumping. As we came closer we spotted 3 HUMPBACK WHALES!!! The best moment was when one of them jumped infront of our ship in a distance of 40meters. All three came as close as 5 meters to the ship and stayed soo close until we had to head back to land. A OUT WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!!
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Whale Watching Iceland June 2nd 12:55
We headed out to the whale watching area and got some icelandic weather par excellance! First we had best sunshine and blue sky than all at once we got fog. at a point the fog was so thick we could not see further than 20 meters. BUT we can depend on our whales! During the whole tour we saw a lot of harbour porpoises so close we could almost touch them, than in the fog a minke whale appeared and stayed with us for a long time. it was quite mystic to hear the breath of this majestic animal in the fog and watch it soo close to the ship. as we headed back the fog disappeared as fast as it came. A wonderful afternoon with a stop by the Puffins on the way back.
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Whale Watchign Iceland June 2nd 8:55
Summer in the bay! There are still a lot of minke whales in the bay and they came as close as 10 meters to the ship. but also it looked like dozens of harbour porpoises would compete with the minkes. The porpoises were great to look at in this tour. We observed them under the surface following the ship, approaching us again and again. Both very slow and easy to take pictures of them and speeding up and jumping, having fur to cause splashes. On the way back we had a stop by the puffin island.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 1st - 08:55
The weekend is about to come and the weather could not be better. out in the bay we stopped counting after we had found 7 different minke whales. All n a distance of 30 to 200 meters. We even found a calf that was only about 6 meters long and came closer to the ship then the adult minkes. As close as 10 meters. Furthermore we saw several harbour porpioses. by the puffin island we had a stop to watch hundrads of puffins. A wonderful morning in the Bay.
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Whale Watching Iceland June 16:55
What a tour! We started at the puffin island with the bird watching part. Than out in the feeding grounds it was an amazing show! About 10 to 12 minke whales were jumping (breaching) rolling ans surfacing sooooo close to the ship. Often there were 3 of them up at the surface at the same time and same direction. Also 5 of them in a distance of less than 60 meters from the ship was common. It looked like a playground for minkes out there. we almost could not leave this place in the bay but were running out of time. When we just started to sail back we spotted a pod of white beaked dolphins and could not resist to cruise around them for a while. Mothers and calfs side by side, jumping out of the water turning in the air - spectaculous and a great finish for the tour
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Whale Watching Iceland June 1st 12:55
A nice sailing tour in best weather conditions. a lot of birds in the island and out on the sea we found a minke whale mother and calf and some harbour porpoises. But since the whales did not show well enough acording to our high standards we provided all passengers with a new Ticket.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 31st 12:55
The fantastic weather stayed with us for the afternoon tour and this time we headed out to the whale watching ares first. This time we found a minke whale mother and calf. Especially the calf was very interested in our ship. It was about 6-m long and surfaced as close as 2 m next to the Andrea. Again we were surrounded by several minkes and lots of porpoises during the whole sail. On the way back we stopped by the Puffin Island Lundey. This your was guided in English and German and many of the kids on board knew a lot about the birds. Thank you for the beautiful day in the bay.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 31st 8:55
8:55 We headed out in beautiful sunshine and fist headed out to the Puffin Island Akurey. Several hundred puffins were all around the island. We continued heading out to the feeding grounds of the whales where we quickly spotted minke whales and harbour porpoises. Both kinds of whales stayed with us during the whole tour. All in all we saw at least 7 minke whales and lots of harbour porpoises. The tour was guided in English, German and French. In beautiful sunshine we came back to the harbour.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 30th 12:55
What an exciting tour! With sun and some wind we sailed first out to Akurey and saw lots of puffins, some were even flying over our boat, but the most of them sitting on the water surface. On our way into the feeding grounds we had a hard time finding the whales. But then we spotted harbour porpoises and minke whales which played a hiding game with us, appeared just very short and dived for quiet a long time. After half an hour full of excitement we finally gave up and sailed into the direction of Reykjavik. But suddenly after just 15 minutes a group of minke whales surfaced very close to the boat, at least four to five animals in a distance of 20-100 meters. One of them was swimming right next to our ship, showed its dorsal fin and didnt move for 30 seconds! A very good end of an unusual tour!
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Whale Watching Iceland May 30 - 08:55
What a Tour! We headed out to the puffin island where we saw several hundrad puffins all around the island. than we headed out to the bay and found a minke whale and some harbour porpoises first. than we went further and found a spot with MANY Minkes. All in all we had most of the time 7 to 10 minkes infront of the ship and about 5 behind us surfacing all the time all in all about 25 minke whales!!!! Even the crew was amazed! the tour was guided in english and german and we had beautiful weather.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 29th 12:55
This afternoon we had some more wind and much more sun in Faxafloi Bay. There were less puffins in Akurey, but we still saw quiet a lot of them. On our way into the feeding grounds we met a group of at least ten white beaked dolphins and followed them for some time. They were swimming with their calves which jumped from time to time out of the water. Then we went on searching for minke whales. We spotted some of them but when we came close they always disappeared and never showed their dorsal fin again. It took quiet some time to search for them and in the end we saw them shortly.
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Whale Watchign Iceland May 29th 8:55
This morning we had calm sea and lots of sun in the Faxafloi Bay. We went first to Akurey and saw hundreds of puffins siting silent on the water and enjoying the morning. When we came into the feeding grounds we had quiet many harbour porpoises and four to six minke whales which appeared very close to the boat. A pretty good tour.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 28th - 12:55
Humpback Whales in the bay !!! Heavens day , still ~ to day we've seen all whale species possible in the Bay , The Humpback whale , White Beaked Dolphins , Harbour porpoises and over 20 Minke Whales . To tell you about this tour .. oh .. it was wonderful to watch the Humpback Whale that close to our vessel , talking of 5 meters .........
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Whale Watching Iceland May 28th - 08:55
Heaven ~ a walk , sail upon haven waves . Perfect words to characterise this stunning morning , unbelievably touching ! Where to start ~ imagine sailing upon small softly waves , an very silent mirror like oceans surface . Sunshine itself dancing above the water like little stars and far the horizon slightly ensnared by soft fog clouds ~ slowly dissolving , everything stagnate ~ silents ........
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Whale Watching Iceland May 27 - 08:55
We sailed out to the puffin island first, where we saw a lot of puffins sitting in front of their nests and flying around our ship. Than we headed our to the whale watching area, where we found a minke whale. It showed in a distance of only 30 meters. Also we were astonished how many birds there were. Herring gulls, black backed gulle, kittewakes, arctic skua, razorbills, a lot of gannets and even the great skua. a nice tour!
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Whale Watching Iceland May 27th - 12:55
In beautiful sunshine and only light waves we headed first out to puffin Island. Many birds have started to nest and sat infront of the entances to their nests. Out in the whale watching area we found a first minke whale very early. But many thers folloewd an we had about 6 different minke whales as close as 10 meters to the Ship. One of them even jumped out of the water in a distance of only 70 meters. Furthermore we had ......
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Whale Watching Iceland May 26 - 12:55
The second tour to day wend really well ~ all together we've spotted around 5 Minke Whales at a good visibility distance . Weather conditions were still mind~blowing ;) Blowing winds .. arrising from all sides , but strangely the wind seamed warm , differently . By the feeding ground we spotted several feeding Minke Whales and Harbour Porpoises . The ocean looked so beautiful ~ all kind of birds like Gannets , the large black withe birds , diving into the water searching for fish and also Guillemots, Black Guillemot's , Razorbills, Artic Tern , Kittiwakes ~it was incredibly to watch all those different birds close circling above the water surface ! Just before we were about to leave the area, one Minke Whales surfaced pretty close to our boat , 1o meters distance only. We were able to listen to the breathing sound and also saw the pointed snout coming up first , alongside our boat the animal emerged in its full body langs several times . Further ~ about 40 meters distance we spotted 2 Minke Whales surfacing close next to each other , they .. where a couple we guess ;) An outstanding picture to have them both surfacing at the same speed and time period. Then we headed towards puffin island and guess what ~ another Minke whales showed up all by itself , that close to land ... was it Oscar , the funny whale form last years we often spotted close to the harbour ~ well but the animal seamed quit occupied feeding and we also wend out of time and sailed back home to the Reykjavik harbour . Very good tour , plenty of minke whales and all kinds of seabirds and an Minke whale close to the lighthouse ;) Wonderful day out on sea ~
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Whale Watching Iceland May 24th
8 55 Wonderful tour ~ 5 to 6 Minke Whales !The morning looked rather calm then ~ and the mild wind changed into more mind~blowing later on this day. But our morning tour appeared fantastic .. still ;) A heavy cloud cover overlaid the Bay. The gale of wind appeared reasonable warm and slightly light fog coming with a bit of drizzle ~ made it the perfect sea weather to sail out into a new adventure. We first started our tour with an short visit by the puffin island ~ the little bishop of the sea with its black and withe coat and we've seen quit many Puffins have arrived for there breeding season ~ unbelievably many birds were present , occupied flying and searching for sustenance , also close to our boat which made it possibly for us to sight them fairly well. Then we said good bye to our little friends and our ...
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Whale Watching Iceland May 23th
Minke whale invasion! This morning was beautiful weather with some clouds and a littlebit of wind. The puffins were passing the boat and we needed to sail for just a short time until we found a group of ten minke whales, surfacing quiet often and stinging their mouth out of the water. All around the boat appeared blows and dorsal fins, and in between we also had some harbour porpoises. When the Great Gannet started its show and was diving into the water, the minke whales appeared even more often on the surface, trying to steel the show. This afternoon the wind became stronger but the waves stayed small. When we first went to the Puffin Island Lundey, some puffins were passing our ship very close while they were struggling with the wind. Out in the bay the puffins became more and more, and finally we found a group of four to six minke whales which appeared between the waves and swimming pretty fast. We could see their blows in distance and had them a couple of times directly ....
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Whale Watching Iceland May 21 - 08:55
Monday morning ~ this week couldn't have started up more beautiful ~ raising the flag to confirm a wish and the sudden sound of the morning bell awakened a single heart ready to sail into this sunshine covered day . We didn't had to sail far when we spotted a group of feeding minke whales ahead our vessel and the oceans colour showed it self it an beautiful dark blue colour and thereon slightly moved waves prodded by a soft breeze blowing gentle from north. Good moments fallowed our tour where the minke whales surfaced only 10 meters distance close to our boat and all together we've seen ablest 8 to 10 minke whale and one single harbour porpoises passing our rout . Wonderful tour ~
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Whale Watching Iceland May 21 - 12:55
What a Tour! The best show of the tour has been handed to us by minke whale mother and calf! Both of them came as close as 5 meters to the ship and the calf realy enjoyed to play infront of the vessel. Many times it almost breached /jumped our of the water. Than it turned around and came up again at the same spot infront of the ship as if the minke whale calf understands we are watching it! Furthermore we had harbour porpoises in the tour and very many sea birds as well as a stop by the puffin island. Best weather and calm seas completed a decent afternoon. . Was fuer eine Tour! Die beste Show der Tour haben uns heute Zwergwalkuh und ihr Kalb geliefert. Beide sind bis auf 5 Meter an das Schiff heran gekommen und das Walkalb hatte sichtlich spass daran vor unserem Schiff zu spielen. Viele male ist es vor uns mit so viel Schwung aufgetaucht, dass es fast ganz aus dem Wasser gesprungen ist. Dann hat es gedreht und kam wieder direkt vor dem Schiff hoch, alsb es wuesste, dass wir es beobachten. Weiterhin haben wir Schweinswale gesichtet in dieser Tour und viele verschiedene Seevogelarten. Ein Stop an der Insel der Papageientaucher, Sonnenschein und spiegelglette See haben den Nachmittag komplett gemacht!
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Whale watching Iceland May 20th - 12:55
TOUR2: This afternoon the sun was still shining, though the wind became a littlebit stronger, nobody became seasick. We had to search for quiet some time and went 14 miles away from the harbour, which is unusual for our tours. But in the end we found a small group of minke whales, appearing every now and then next to the boat. On our way back we spotted another animal which was much bigger than a normal minke whale. But we just saw it once. The captain said it was a Fin whale. Two good tours.
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Whale watching Iceland May 20th - 8:55
This morning we had no wind and lots of sun. After only half an hour a group of 10 to 15 minke whales appeared all around the boat and were very good visible. You could hear and see them breathing because they came so close to the boat.
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Whale watching Iceland May 19th - 8:55 & 12:55 tours.
What a wonderful sunny day with almost no waves! On our first tour we spotted lots of harbour porpoises and a few minke whales which were diving pretty deep and didn't show themselves often. We got one of them for a short moment right next to our boat. On the second tour all the whales seemed to be disappeared. We were sailing really far out and didn't see anything for over one hour. But then suddenly, 14 sea miles away from the harbour, at a place we visit very seldom, we found two minke whales which could be seen very clear and often, even 20 meters close to the boat. Finally everybody was happy!
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Whale watching Iceland May 18th - 12:55
Meanwhile, a veil of mist set above the glassy oceans surface which gave our second tour a mysterious character to sail out . Surroundings appeared absolutely beautiful and no waves ~ no winds , pure silents like the oceans is a sleep ;) When we arrived by our common spot were we found the feeding minke whales this morning we saw many harbour porpoises once again surrounding our boat .There movement was incredibly smooth and we were able to watch them pretty well . Then after only a little while we spotted leastwise 4 Minke Whales . They were occupied feeding , munching all the time and we had good opportunities to be able to observe there feeding behaviours from fairly close distances of our fine boat . Now we are sailing towards puffin island ~ on our last tour we stopped by the island and realise that many birds have arrived already this year in good time , differently like past year ~ this year the Puffins are back home on time . Super tour and good moments in our heart ~
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Whale Watching Iceland May 18 - 08:55
To day is one of those days ~ nice weather and many whales we have spotted . Sea surface remained calm and so we sailed out into the feeding ground of the whales and we spotted all together 5 Minke whales surfacing in good time intervals close to our boat . We had fantastic moments observing several animals fairly close and one thing all along this tour were lots of Harbour Porpoises ~ all along this tour they surrounded us . A wonderful tour ~ especially the weather was so silent and bright with a bit of sunshine . Now we are sailing towards the puffin island and then to land and we are looking forward to our next tour ~ in this kind of weather conditions ~ awesome !
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Whale watching Iceland May 17th - 12:55
Best sea conditions and so much sun in the bay this afternoon was by far not the only thing we enjoyed in this tour. I cannot count all the harbour porpoises and dolphins we have seen today. Again there were minke whales, at a point even 2 of them within a 50 meters radius around the ship. In the end we stopped by the puffin island where more and more Puffins start nesting. Further birds surrounded us all the time of the sail.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 17 - 08:55
This morning we still had the great conditions as yesterday. on the way our we found a pod of white beaked dolphins. About 10 animals swimming very slow and as close as 10 meters from the ship. than we stopped at the puffin island where the Birds are inspecting the nestins holes and start breeding soon. on the way out we found a second pod of Dolphins - about 20 animals this time and even with some calfs! Out in the bay we found a minke whale which was feeding a lot and showed only a few times in the row. Than we found a LOT of harbour porpoises on the way in. in little groups they joined us for more then half an hour even jumping out of the water!
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Whale Watching Iceland may 16th at 12:55
In great sunshine and calmest seas we quickly found harour porpises which accompanied us all the way out to the feeding grounds of the big whales. Than we found several minke whales. 2 of them stayed for a bit longer at the surface, others swam faster and were busier feeding. but another fhenomenon came up. not in the seas but in the sky. we had a so called 22°Halo! Similar to a rainbow, but not due to rain but ice crystals in an icy clowd high up. have a look a the picture. it is also called sunbow. On the way back into the Harbour we had again a lot of porpoises around the ship.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 16 - 08:55
Still we have snow on top of the mountains and the storm a couple of days ago brought heavy iciness back to sea ~ well , it is to bear , but just several weeks ago we've been quit spoilt joying first warm summer days here in Iceland . But no worry ~ every year around may the winter turns back on more time to say " ta ta for now ~ good bye " ;) Well , we sailed into the same feeding area as past days and spotted 5 to 6 beautiful mike whales surfacing around our boat . One time we had the great opportunity to watch a minke whale feeding between a group of birds , very fascinating picture . On our way back we saw harbour porpoises surfacing pretty close alongside our boat and underneath the sunshine we are now sailing back home . Really nice tour !
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Whale watching Iceland May 15th - 12:55
Minke whales and harbour porpoises! Even though we had fresh wind today the sun came out and pleased our minds. We needed quiet some time to search for the whales, but in the end we found a group of harbour porpoises and even a minke whale, which came surprisingly up to the surface right next to our boat! It is a pleasure to come so close to this enormous animal.
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Whale watching Iceland May 12th - 12:55
Weather conditions totally calmed ~ and the oceans surface changed into one veil of silents , there was also fog and the colours of the surroundings were unbelievably bright . Its is one of my favourite weather out on sea , it cant be any better especially here in Iceland ~ Just so suitable ;) To sail out in this kind of weather conditions feels like gliding above the ocean ~ into a new adventure and also in this tour we didn't had to sail very far to strike our luck . We spotted ablest 3 Minke whales in this tour and one approached our boat incredibly close , surfacing in only 10 meters distance . One thing this creature didn't hid was its bad smelly breath ~ ohh noo ;) Well we can see them , but also smell them and quit often when they surface close enough listen to there breath which is fascinating . When we cam to the end of our tour we spotted this group of withe beaked dolphins from our last tour this morning ~ once again they gave us a unforgettable time appearing only 5 to 10 meters ahead our boat . And so many harbour porpoises , the smallest of all whales here in Iceland and ~ Puffins , we have seen them now often out there and soon we will start up our tours visiting the puffin islands as well . Now we are on our way back home ~ happy .
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Whale watching Iceland May 12th - 8:55
After sailing a little while the morning fog was lifting and we had a fantastic view ~ sea surface remained calmly and all together the weather brighten a bit to make it easier to detect whales . The atmosphere on our whale boat evolved very amusing and when we reached the feeding ground of the whales we were surprised ~ cause something small approached our boat from ahead . First we thought of an single Harbour Porpoise and when arriving closer ~ we saw a little agile dolphin all by itself approaching our boat very speedy ~ it kinda looked like the little dolphin was excited to have discovered our boat and then we saw the little dolphin was followed by a big group , his family of course . A group of white beaked dolphins ~ they stayed with us for a fairly long time and surfacing only 2 to 10 meters distance to our boat and also were wake riding , this is when dolphins are play out and ~ swim and jump , extremely lively ;) And there were quit many harbour porpoises we saw pretty close , lots of them . We've also seen all together 4 minke whales ~ not far from us , but they seamed occupied feeding and we were only able to watch them shortly ~ only a little glimpse of them was visibly . We had a fantastic tour and now we are looking forward to our second whale tour ~ on our way back everybody now clubbing in our cosy coffeehouse and we exchanging photographs of the dolphins in this tour . Super !
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Whale Watching Iceland May 11th at 12:55
Magnificent ~ our afternoon tour wend on to be a big success and also the weather conditions remained calmly and pretty clear , some big swells though sailing against the waves can be lotsa fun . We arrived by the feeding ground quit soon were we spotted leastwise 6 Minke whales in this area and the most amassing thing we saw were a twosome Minke whales surfacing together close to our boat ~ magical . The way they moved there body alongside our boat ~ very majestic creatures . A fantastic tour ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland May 11th at 08:55
Gray colours , drizzling rain showers and balmy breezes of winds are the weather condition to day out on sea ~ it wasn't cold and the wind came with an appetising fresh smell like summer . We sailed awash constantly arising clouds changing between sunshine and small rain showers . Typical Icelandic weather and after sailing some while we hit the same feeding ground as yesterday were we spotted our first Minke Whale surfacing pretty close to our boat . This beautiful animal stayed with us for only a little while ~ long enough to show us the breathing behaviours of the whales and several times the black back of the creature emerging above the surface . It seamed like our first spotted minke whale was very occupied feeding on nourishment's cause of its fast movement . We spotted 3 more minke whales on this tour and all of them seamed occupied feeding fish ~ but still we have gotten some perfect moments for a good view on those animals . There were many groups of harbour porpoises in this tour and to our surprise they came extremely close to our boat which is quit unusually for those small whales ~ A good tour .
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Whale watching Iceland May 10th
A harbour porpoise pod / Was easily to spot / And at a certain point / Five Minky whales us joined / The rest is quickly told / The weather wasn't cold / So flat and calm the sea / Sun sparkled bright on me / Great Gannets hunted fish / What more the tourists wish?
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Whale watching Iceland May 9th
Today we saw a whale ; He seemed to be a male ; He had the wish ; To eat some fish ; Which was quiet cheap for sale ; It was a beautiful and sunny day, not many waves, and we saw at least six minky whales and a bunch of harbour porpoises, up to ten meters close to the boat. A good standard tour.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 8th at 12:55
We headed towards the same area were we found the minke whales this morning and right at the beginning of our tour we spotted many small groups of harbour porpoises surfacing all around the boat . We had to search a bit longer as in the morning ~ and after some while we found one single minke whale . But , this creature came only 2 meters of distance to our boat ~ we almost were able to touche it , it was incredible to watch a whale that close . The animal remained with us for a long time and we had fantastic moments observing it from all sides of the boat . We also watched out for the dolphins ~ but count find them again . Still a very good tour cause the minke whale we spotted surfaced all the time pretty close to us , unbelievably close ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland May 8th at 08:55
Wonderful tour ... we are so happy ;))) Seen in this White beaked dolphins , plenty of Minke whales and harbour porpoises , Puffins , lotsa sea bids , boats , mountains , sunshine ~ yeh well , were to start telling our whale tale for this tour . We headed out into the same feeding ground as yesterday . On the beginning we weren't able to find a whale instantly and we were worried to have to search for to long and suddenly this big creature appearing in front of our fine boat ~ a beautiful minke whale and with it ~ many other minke whales further out and close to us . We were able to see that they were occupied feeding and not to much interested on our boat , but we've had about 4 to 5 minke whales in this area and all of them surfaced quit often and we could watch them pretty well . Than we spotted several times groups of harbour porpoises and they actually surfaced quit slow and near our boat . We were on our way back to Reykjavik when we spotted this small group of white beaked dolphins further out jumping ~ catching our heart and smile ;) Wonderful cetacean ! They followed our boat for a little while and once coming only 5 meters close to the front side of our boat , we were able to see all the colours of the animal and there dorsal fin .. we also saw a little calf with this group , very cute . All along this tour we had lotsa Gannet's plunching into the water and other seabirds like Guillemots , Great Blacked Gull , Fulmar and the little Puffins fluttering with there wings above the water .. Super tour and now were sailing back home , for yummy lunch ~ looking forward to the afternoon adventure out on sea ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland May 7th at 12:55
The second tour to day went pretty well ~ we've seen several minke whales and harbour porpoises in this tour . The only thing was the cold wind blowing in our face and the colour of the sea surface changed a bit more dark which made it difficult to see the whales at the instant moment . When we arrived at the same feeding ground as this morning we spotted one minke whale surfacing ahead our boat ~ but further out . When we came closer we've gotten some good pictures of the animal surfacing several times and then it disappeared into the blue ~ We detected another creature and this one remained longer time with us and surfaced fairly close to our boat . Now , were on our way back to Reykjavik harbour and enjoying in our warm cosy coffeehouse ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland May 7th at 08:55
Monday morning ~ sunshine all over Reykjavik , what a beautiful day to start a new week . Arriving this morning by the harbour we prepared our fine boat ~ our captain boiling strong sailors cafe and Sara pulling the flag , now ready for a new adventure we started into the bay . Yesterdays tours have been a bit difficult to find whales ~ maybe because of the perigee super moon 2 days ago , which appeared 14 % bigger than usually . To day we had more of success in our tour , all together we've spotted 3 minke whales and several groups of harbour porpoises . We kept company or the other way around , the minke whale kept our company all along this tour ~ remaining pretty close to our boat ~ distance of between 5 and 60 meters only , it seamed like the animal wasn't into feeding at all cause it surfaced all the time in very small time intervals . There were several whale vessels out there and this outstanding minke whale approached all of us very closely like a happy whale ;) This is a common behaviour of minke whales, if they are not as much into feeding they are very curious into boats . Super fantastic tour with a friendly minke whale and lots of sunshine !
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Whale Watching Iceland may, 6th at 12:55
The afternoon ~ well , whales yes ~ but .. we had to search pretty long time out there to strike our luck . Eventually we did found a Minke whale surfacing several times close to our boat , but this creature was occupied feeding and remained all the time under the water . Just the same happened with another Minke whale we spotted further out . To day the whales were most of the time feeding . On the very end of our tour we detected one more Minke whale and this one came fairly close to give us some fantastic time to watch it very well . We had some good moments were the animal surfaced only in 5 meters distance from our boat , we were able to see the creature quit good and the black back emerging above surface , cool pic . One time the Minke whale emerged with its snout first above the surface . Now , while we are on our way back , we face some resting Gannets just ahead our boat , kinda funny to look at . Seams like everyone is resting out here and there ~ we are late and behind time , but happy with this tour . Now slurping on our hot chocolate and watching out the window from our cosy coffeehouse or sunbathing at the upper deck . This week with lotsa whales in our tours ~ have come to an end ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland may 6th at 08:55
Weather conditions are terrific out here and 2 Minke whales close to our boat ! Sunshine and not one single cloud to see up the blue Sunday sky ~ we sailed to the same spot were we found yesterday several whales feeding , but for a long time we weren't able to detect a whale , only from time to time a blow and once a glimpse of a black back reflecting underneath the rays of sunshine ~ we never had a evidence of a whale surfacing , only a few speculations and tiny indications of it . But then we found our luck ;) After changing directions and areas several times we spotted a Minke whale " family " ~ a mother and calf feeding close to our boat . They stayed with us all the time and remained only 5 meters distance , most of the time . Especially the young Minke whales are curious into boats and we were able to see that ;) Wonderful tour , cause both whales all time very close to our boat and the weather conditions made it able to have a calm sea all along this tour . There were so many birds like mostely ~ Gannets , lots of them and a few puffins as well was seen ~ Great tour .
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Whale Watching Iceland may 5th at 12:55
Our afternoon tour didn't go as well as in the morning ~ but still sunshine and happy guests partying our boat all time trough ~ Dancing and singing ;) When we reached whale area , the feeding ground we spotted right away a agile swimmer ahead our boat and pretty close as well , searching for nourishment ~ kinda occupied with the seafood and not at all interested in our fine whale boat . The creature remained for only a short while and then disappeared "overseas" . We were able to see the black back shining underneath the sunshine several times , but then the show was gone . Sailing some while vertical and horizontal trough the blue grey coloured waves ~ no, not as big ~ anyway we spotted after only a few while searching plenty of harbour porpoises , they were everywhere to see and also very close to our boat , once only 3 meters and we were able to see there small robust body , also the straight mouth line and colours of the worlds smallest cetaceans . But ~ we did decided to hand our fun passengers another free ticket to come along with us to a better whale tour in following days ;) Still , not as much whales ~ but a neat tour .
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Whale Watching Iceland may 5th at 08:55
Wonderful morning to start the day out on the ocean ~ all together we've seen 6 to 8 Minke whales and many groups of harbour porpoises . To day the weather conditions surprised us cause it became once again freaky cold over night :/ huuu :) We jumped into our warm overalls which we are offering to our passengers in all our tours and then ready to sail out we've found our luck right at the very beginning of the feeding ground area . We didn't had to search for long when we spotted blow"s" all around our boat at a visible distance for us ~ we saw minke whales surfacing pretty close to us ~like 10 meters only and also we've gotten enough time to observe them fairly well . Also in this tour we had plenty of birds and most of all Gannets ~ the withe large sea birds , watching there spectacular dives into the water from the air ~ we are very happy with this tour an now on our way back to Reykjavik harbour , our starved crew is looking forward to yummy lunch ~ and the next adventure this afternoon out here on Faxi bay ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland may 4th at 08:55
This morning was the most beautiful weather for whale watching, sun and neither wind nor waves. We met a group of six minke whales in the feeding grounds which came 10 meters close to the boat. With the sun we could see their white spot on the flippers directly under the water surface. And we could see tonns of sand eels sparkling in the water. On our way back we had several groups of harbour porpoises. One of them came so close to the boat that we could take incredible nice pictures of the animals.
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Whale Watching Iceland May 3rd at 12:55
The afternoon super tour ;) We sailed ~ far and sunshine all along our tour and even better , we've spotted all together 4 minke whales and several groups of harbour porpoises surfacing all the time close to our vessel . On the beginning of this tour we had to search a for a while and quit often we've detected a blow just ahead of us but it seamed like every time we've lost hold of the animal ~ while after 30min searching and being patient which was not difficult under this awesome weather to day and then suddenly we had 4 minke whales . There were 2 minke whales very close to us and we could observe there breathing characters of the baleen whales and watch them all along the time fairly close to us surfacing in all kinds of characters . We also saw many many seabirds on this tour , it almost seem passengers were more into one single puffin ~ well , all together a wonderful tour and now we are looking forward to the harbour party ~ festoon our fine boat before we are sailing into the harbour ;))))
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Whale Watching Iceland May 3rd at 08:55
When we arrived this morning by the harbour ~ preparing our beautiful boat for to days new adventure and we were surprised about this terrific weather conditions . Sunshine pure and no clouds at all ~ a breeze of warm intensive summer air was perceptible . Mornings like this to start up ~ just wonderful ! So .. we sailed into the sunshine towards the same area were we found as many whales yesterday . But something happened that changed our plans and and thrill about this tour , well for a moment . One passenger became sick and we decided to sail instantly back to Reykjavik harbour . Everybody of our guests seamed very understanding and we appreciate and thank all of you so much (()) We handed our brave passengers a complementary ticket and also the refund of the tickets cost back if it wwas wished for , of course . Now we hope that our sick passenger is a bit better by now and still will have some following beautiful holiday here in Iceland . We are looking forward to our lunch tour cause weather conditions are even more stunning at the afternoon ~ how can it be better ;) It is absolutely wonderful ~ we are just wearing a shirt and sunbathing at the backside of our very cosely whale yacht Andrea . Also this afternoon this harbour festival is taking place with many bands playing around the Reykjavik harbour , drinks , balloon's , food , and lotsa people ( dancing ;) ~ short said " a gigantic harbour party " ;))) Please come and visit our open whaleboat Andrea , our captain and engineer are as well here and we , our crew , love to show you around or answer curious questions to you ;)
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Whale Watching Iceland May 2nd tour at 12:55
This afternoon wend pretty well ~ we spotted all together 4 Minke whales just like in our morning tour and many small groups of harbour porpoises . The special thing about this tour differently from the morning tour was that the wind have calmed and sea conditions became us much better , well many of us ;) The colours of the ocean changing every day ~ actually all scenery here in Faxi Bay . Clouds was hanging quit low and covering most of the mountains on the top and the sunlight breaking trough the clouds making beautiful constantly changing colours . We didn't had to sail far out when a minke whale rocked up right ahead our vessel ~ 10 meters close surfacing and remaining with us for some while . We've seen several more minke whales in this tour and harbour porpoises the smallest of the whales here in Iceland ;) We also gotten a couple of fantastic moments on this tour ~ one time a minke whale where raising its head out the water first and one time also the flippers for a short period of time . We stayed very long outside because there was many creatures to look at and always new once showing up and .. plenty of birds seen on this tour like Gannets and Puffins , and also Guillemots and much more ... Super tour , super day out on sea ~
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Whale Watching Iceland May 2nd
8 55 Fantastic tour ~ 4 Minke Whales ! One very close to our boat for a long time and when we talk close then only 2 meters . Weather conditions out there were fairly conftebull . A bit of drizzle and a little bit of haze covering sea surfacing and mountains surroundings which gave our tour a magical atmosphere ~ typical Icelandic weather conditions ;) To day we were more lucky as past days cause we didn't hat to sail that far or waiting endless to spot our first creature a beautiful minke whale that surfaced very close to our boat over and over repeating . Once surfacing extremely close , only 2 meters ~ Super !!! We really enjoyed this tour and we also seen many birds in this tour .. Puffins .. so cute . And Gannets , lots of kittiwakes and Razorbills . One time the Minke whale surfaced about 10 meters distance and it turn around , propels itself out of the water ~ head lunging . We were able to see the underneath white belly several times and also the animal surfaced a few times coming up with its snout first ~ On our way back we spotted harbour porpoises further out and all together we had a wonderful tour !
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Whale Watching Iceland May 1st
8 55 This morning we departed our tour from keflavik Harbour one of my favourite harbour ~ this is the place were one of the first whale watching in Iceland started over 10 years ago . Surroundings and nature around this area are magnificent ~ quit often over past years whales have been spotted very close to the harbour area and even inside the harbour whales were sighted by day or night :) But to day we've been unlucky and didn't find whales . We searched for a long time and weren't able to find whales . We've gotten news from another whale vessel at this area that there is a minke whale close by , but we weren't able to see it and most likely it was gone to fast . But many birds we've seen like Puffins , Rayorbills , Kittiwakes , Fulmars and Gannets . Of course our passengers got a complimentary ticket to come to another better whale tour on our fine Boad ~ 12 55 Our second tour from keflavik ~ still no whales , but weather conditions calmed and so we had a wonderful sailing tour all around the Reykjanesbæ peninsula . we sailed along the lighthouses and bold cliffs close to ashore and also we headed quit far out to try our luck . Also in this tour now whales ~ we remained for a long time searching behind every " corner " ;( Also in this tour we handed our passengers another ticket for free to come with us again in following days .
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Whale Watching Iceland April 30th
8 55 The Humpbacks are back !!!! The early bird gets the worm ;) Monday morning , new week and a wonderful tour to start of ~ When we started our sail out weather conditions were absolutely perfect , sunshine and no waves , sunbathing by the morning houres . First we were worried to have another unlucky tour like yesterday as our eyes took hold at a big blow ahead our beautiful vessel surrounded by lotsa gannets plunging into the water ~ very close ! Surroundings were beautiful and it didn't take long when they Humpback surfaced several times near to our boat . We talking of 10 meters only ~ seeing such creature that close is always breathtaking and an unforgettable moment ~ well moments , plenty of good moments in this tour . Oh it was a fantastic tour ~ Plenty of birds , such as Gannets , Puffins , Great Black Backed Gull, Guillemots , Fulmars .. and not only the Humpback whale ~ We've seen at least 3 Minke Whales surfacing fairly close to our boat and remaining all the time . Harbour porpoises , the third species ~ we've spotted on our way back . Incredible tour ! 12 55 This tour turn out rather unlucky ;( We were so optimistic because of the previous tour this morning were we have seen all together 5 whales and 3 different kinds of species , but now ~ even worse when we arrive at the finally area were we spotted the whales earlier to day , suddenly weather conditions changed around awfully . Winds , rain and fog ~ what made it most difficult was the wind blow and bit our faces . But it doesn't depends up on the weather conditions to find whales , most likely they have moved further out for better nourishment . One thing is certain , our brave passengers are now real seamen ;) Being searching for some while we heart from another boat of dolphins hanging out close by , but we weren't able to find them ~ we gave our brave passengers ~ seaman's ;) another gratis ticket to come along with us for a whale watching tour in fallowing days ~
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Whale watching Iceland April 27th
Minke whales and harbour porpoises! This time we had to sail quite far out to find the whales. The first minke whale appeared just very short and was never seen again. About 20 minutes later we found a bunch of Northern Gannets fishing in the sunshine, a spectacular view. And in between we could see two minke whales and a few harbour porpoises fishing as well. They were visible quiet often. A good day.
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Whale watching Iceland April 26th
Very good tour ~ but the Humphis are gone , looks like it . Even do we had quit some wind and cold temperatures blowing in our faces , still this tour was excellent and we've seen Puffins ;))) After sailing for some while we stopped and waited for a little while and after only a few minits a minke whale showed up ! First a bit further and than fairly close surfacing several times , only 10 meters close to our boat . One time we were able to see the narrow pointed snout coming up first while surfacing and very often appearing close to our boat . Again and again we were able to observe this beauty closely enough to our eye ;) Also we've seen Harbour porpoises several times passing our road ~ all together a nice tour , bit windy and gray to day ~ but .. this is Iceland ;)
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Whale watching Iceland April 25th
12:55 On our second trip we had less passengers but much more whales. Two times a group of harbour porpoises said hello to us. When we arrived in the feeding grounds, we could see at least six minke whales all around the ship in a distance of 30-150m. Sometimes we could see three animals at the same time. We went satisfied back to the harbour and on our way back we met by chance a group of white beaked dolphins. The captain turned the ship in a spectacular way and we saw at least 10 dolphins only 20m in front of the ship. You could clearly see their white stripes on the back and on the sides. A beautiful final! 8:55 I would consider the first tour today as a good standard. We had groups of harbour porpoises on the way out into the bay and on our way back. In the feeding grounds we found at least two minke whales which we followed for some time. At one point we discovered a quiet big blow only 60 m away from the boat and I was pretty sure it was a humpback whale, but when we came near we did not see the blow again. Hope to see it in the next tour.
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Whale watching Iceland April 24th
Today we saw three species of whales. The harbour porpoises are actually all around the bay and accompanied the ship every now and then in smaller groups of five to ten animals. When we arrived at the feeding grounds we could spot five to six Minke whales in a further distance and decided to follow one of them which could be seen only twenty meters from the boat. Further out in the bay we had also one humpback whale which was diving very long and was difficult to spot, but in the end we could see his big fluke at least two times. What more do you desire?
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Whale Watching Iceland April 23rd
All over the bay we spotted various little groups of harbour porpoises today. When arriving at the first minke whale it turned out to be an area very rich in food as there were more and more minkes appering at the scene. At some point we had four or five of them around the ship. One propably mother and calf. We stayed with them for quite some time and minke whales and harbour porpoises surfaced numerous times around us. The good weather completed a wonferful day at sea.
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Whale watching Iceland April 22nd
The dolphins are back in the bay! We started the day with sunny weather and calm sea, but we could not really find the whales. On our way back we finally got the full package. First Harbour porpoises in small groups, then a group of at least four Minke whales which were sourrounding the boat, one of them came even 10m near the boat, and finally we got a pod of 5-8 white beaked dolphins, only 20m away from the boat. A good day.
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Whale watching Iceland April 21st
Another wonderful tour with a lot of animals: Humpback whales, harbour porpoises and Minke whales. On our way out to the feeding grounds we had big groups of harbour porpoises passing by and actually during the whole journey we could observe them from time to time around the ship. Arriving at the feeding grounds we had the luxury to choose one whale out of many. In the whole area we could see Minke whales and Humpback whales and we decided to stay with a big Humpback. This huge animal was in a very good mood and started breaching and rolling in the water, showing its long flippers and immense fluke, but also its breast. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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Whale Watching Iceland April 20th
This was a dream day for whale watching. We were sailing quiet far out and found the whale watchers paradise. Dozens of harbour porpoises were hunting for fish in the water and swimming around the boat. In the meanwhile minke whales and humpback whales were visible all around and we decided to follow a couple of two humpback whales which appeared a few times right next to our boat. We had also the pleasure so see one of them breaching which means that he was shooting like a rocket out of the water showing his beautiful belly with and its grey pattern.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 19th
On the first day of summer which is celebrated in Iceland today we had a great time out in the bay. On the way out we saw a group og white beaked dolphins. a bit further out there were incredible many big whales close together. At a point we had 5 humpback whales and 3 minke whales in a radius of about 100 to 120 meters around the ship. Minke came as close as 15 meters and humpback as close as 10 meters. Especially the humpback whales remained close to the ANDREA for a long time and we saw the white sideflippers below the surface and many many times the Flukes (tail fin) We took wonderful pictures and videos (comming up soon) and about 20 harbour porpoises joined us on the way back home. A great day with perfect spottings of 4 species!
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Whale watching Iceland April 18th
Guiding is an extraordinary pleasure on days like this. Calm sea and beautiful sunshine made it very easy to spot the whales. The bay is full of animals and we saw three species of whales today. Harbour porpoises acompanied the ship at least five times. Our first big whale could be seen already after half an hour: A minke whale. And finally, far out on the bay, we met a group of five Humpback whales which was swimming around the ship and came ten meters close. Sometimes we didn't know where to watch because they where diving directly under the surface both in front and in the back of the ship.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 17th
In bright Sunshine, blue sky and calm seas we headed out to the bay Faxaflói. The first thing we recognized were vast numberes of Birds - Northern Fulmar, Kittewake, Herring gull, black backed gull, Black guillemots, and even the majestig great gannet! The first soptting of the Tour was a minke whale circleling around the Ship and soon several Pots of harbour porpoises joined in. the porpoises were numerous today and we had more and more little groups throughout the tour. We had good luck today and soon there were 2 Humpback whales around the ANDREA surfacing so close to the Ship, that we could see the white side flippers, listen to the breath and take pictures of the Fluke (tailfin). We staied out with the Whales for a very long time and therefore came a bit late back to the Harbour. All in all: 2-3 minke whales, 3 - 4 Humpbacks and well 30+ harbourporpoises - fantastic Trip.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 15th
Today we had another wonderful tour just like the past days we had to sail very far to the area were the Humpbacks are gathering , lots of birds , Minke whales and Harbour porpoises ~ many many !! ;) We had some wind but lotsa sunshine and when we arrived at the final spot we spotted all together 3 Humpback whales , 2 Minke whales and lotsa small groups of Harbour porpoises . This tour was so wonderful , once the animal came very close ~ 10 meter distance only and we had a good moment to observe it . Also the Minke Whale surfaced several times very close and alongside our boat . All together we had a fantastic tour ;)
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Whale watching Iceland April 14th
Again Humpbacks rocking our bay , Again breaching Humpback ~ sailing very far we spotted ca 4 Humpback whales & 5 Minke Whales , several pots of harbour porpoises passing our direction ~ plus calm weather conditions , a few rain showers and the mountains around the bay veiled in angelic clouds , those are the weather when all is silent , no sound only the ring of birds gathering in masses … Fulmars , Kittiwakes , Arctic Skua , also Great Skua , Gannets making there spectacular dives into the water , plunging from high in the air ... super !! & the amazingly tone by a Humpback whale breathing ~ when surfacing close to our boat , which happened quit often those days here in Faxi bay ~ what is happening ?! Wonderful days are have taken place , non stop amazingly unforgettably whales tours & tomorrow , again ? ~ Of course , I bet my morning cafe ;) Just as started sailing out one of our passenger wished for a jumping whale and so it was , the Humpback breached several times consecutively , it was breathtaking and certainly sometimes suchlike events of to day & the past few would perhaps cry of joy & happiness , instinct in this moment watching & listening a Humpback whale less than 1 meter close to our boat , quit shocking moment ~ you cant really talk , move or say anything once a big creature capturing your spirit that close ! On our way back we had a good time cause sea conditions were typical alike ~ silent , abit hazy & rain mixed up drizzling together with sunshine , only a little while ~ but beautiful ! Also to day we ink the 14. 4. 12 , one magical number to sail out ~ to that day 100 years ago the Titanic left behind a legend here on the north Atlantic ~
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Whale Watching tour Iceland April 13th
Friday 13.4. ~ our lucky day !!! Fantastic weather conditions and whales every !!! 2 Humpback‘s and about 5 Minke Whales , Harbour porpoises . Where to start ? We actually had to sail very far ~ like in past days . On the lane to the finally area where the humpback‘s ahead in the assembled company waiting for us, we spotted lotsa minke whales surfacing fairly close to our boat , some on further distance . There were Minke whales everywhere on the qui vive ;) It was absolutely amassing ~ Birds , whales , good spirited passengers and to days weather conditions so beautiful ! When we arrived closer we spotted a huge blow ahead and soon figure of course the Humpback , but there were incredibly many , scorses of minke whales holding us back ;) But finally we made our way trough and after only a few mins the animal surfaced close to our boat , yes ~ very close , encircling our boat and remaining very curious about our attendance . We were able to observe the animal alongside our boat 10 meter distance and ahead only 3 meters distance . Another Humpback surfaced further ... Incredibly moments to take back home and on our way home we detected Harbour Porpoises surfacing quite close to our boat , there back appeared shining underneath the sunshine ;) We had to sail more than one our back to the harbour ~ lotsa time to answer all questions to our curious passengers , sipping hot chocolate and taking first sunbeams of this year in our faces ;) Tomorrow is a new day and it will be fantastic weather ! We are excited to get out to the Hump's ~ Can't wait !
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Whale watching Iceland April 11th
In beautiful sunshine we headed out and very early in the tour we spotted some Harbour Porpoises. First only 2 than another group of 3 some slower swimming some faster swimming all in all at least 30 animals joined us on the way out in the Bay and some people even got pictures of them. The next spotting was the first minke whale that showed only a few times. Some minutes later a second Minke whale showing much more interest in our ship ANDREA. than i a far distance a Humpback breaching, jumping out of the water causing giant splashes and jumping a second time! we headed right into "luxury problems" all at once we were surrounded by 2 humpbacks - mother and calf - and a minke whale numbere 3 and all of them surfacing in a distance of only 20 to 80 meters all around us! we stayed with these animals for some time and one of the Humpbacks came so close; people in the front could almost touch it!!! (stay tuned for the vodeo of this moment.) Heading on later there were more minkes and more humpbacks. In the feeding grounds we counted at least 6 minke whales and 4 or 5 Humpback whales. Surrounded by thousands of birds an in best weather all of us had a marvellous time.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 11th
Again , we had a supi supi tour ~ the Humpbacks are still present which gave us a joyful day out on sea . We had to sail very far to our destination HUMPBACK ;) All together 4 to 5 Humpbacks further and close , but actually two of them remained all the time with us ~ one rather small , very possibly we had a mother and calf ~ but before we were able to observe clearly ~ suddenly a great snow blizzard surprised us and also took our good few eyes front ;) But luckily only at the very end of our tour , once the animal came that close to our boat , that we where able to recognise the white long flippers of the Humpback shining trough the water surface . Several times it surfaced alongside , and very very close which gave us the best moment of our tour ! Even do we had rain and small waves overcome ocean scenery , typical Icelandic weather conditions .. still , somehow beautifully ~ unbelievably lotsa lotsa birds were in this area ~ Fulmars , Gannets , black backed Gull , Kittiwakes and incredibly .. many more ! Very good tour ~ we are excited about coming days , all week a very good weather forecast !! ;)
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Whale watching Iceland April 10th
Humphback alarm! On this beautiful sunny day the waves where pretty calm even though the wind was blowing a bit stronger. After sailing for approx. one hour we finally arrived at the feeding grounds where we spotted several animals. We decided to follow a humphback whale which was very good visible through his blows on the water surface. This quiet young animal was about 10-12 meters long and had glowing white side flippers which you could clearly see under the water surface. The bay was quiet shallow and the whale neither dived deep nor for a long time. The breathing interval was only four to five minutes. We could see his immense fluke many times only 10-20 meters away from the boat. A good day!
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Whale watching Iceland April 9th
Due to a strong wind in the bay the tour was cancelled.
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Whale watching Iceland April 8th
Due to a bad sea conditions the tour was cancelled.
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Whale watching Iceland April 7th
Once again we had another wonderful tour ~ again we found the Humpback , still out there ~ weather conditions a so magical , a silent bay ~ we were surrounded by fog and actually weren't able to have a further look into distance , very fogy . We had to sail quit far to reach the yesterdays quarter and we found the Humpback , once again ;) To day surroundings were amazingly and mystical when we arrived by the area we had to search for some while and always we thought to have seen the " beast " trough the fog , but then suddenly it was there ~ right ahead our vessel , 100 meters distance , but clearly we saw it , kinda taking our attention making its presence known by breaching about three quarters of its body lengths out of the water . Through the dense fog we only saw the huge black shadow and instant we known where to find our yesterdays Humpback , right ahead our boat :) We remained for some while and the animal came for once very close ~ 10 meters only and another time surfaced alongside our boat ~ also very close ! The entire atmosphere out on sea was unbelievably magical , like in a pirates movie where there is dense mist surrounding our boat and cover our sight, and everyone being so excited waiting for the creature surfacing again . And... we had a fluking whale ~ the humpback was showing us its tail fluke every time when diving ~ we really had a good time . There were several birds to day like kittiwakes , Fulmars , Great black backed gull and Gannets . After a bide of awhile we decided to leave those beautiful moments behind , sailing towards an area were we heard of a group dolphins hanging out .. and really after sailing for a little while we spotted a medium sized group of white beaked dolphins . They came fairly close to our boat and we were able to observe there characteristic colours .. light greyish ~ white stripes along side , beautiful ;) We stayed for good 15 min and than we had to sail back home ;/ Wonderful tour and hopefully upcoming tours are as fantastic like the previous tours .
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Whale watching Iceland April 6th
Breaching Humpback today - look at the wideo ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ4c8Bnd-TO Once again we had a wonderful tour ~ unbelievably , in this tour a breaching ( jumping ) Humpback whale ;) only 20 meters distance from our boat . We sailed very far and weather condition didn't change much since yesterday .. a veil of dense mist haze overlaid all the bay which gave our tour a mystical atmosphere . My favourite weather to sail out ~ fog , silence and big whales appearing out of the blue rrr ;) !! After sailing for some while we spotted a small group white beaked dolphins, but in further distance ~ soon we decided to sail further to find the humps from yesterdays tour ~ and we did spotted one humpback whale , not five but one " acrobat " to cheer our tour .. no day ;) . Beautiful creature and to day it came very close to our boat ! We actually arrived and the humpback approached our boat and next we know ~ it jumped out the water and very very close . What a surprise , and soon after that the humpback was spy hopping ~ sticking its head out the water , Wonderful moment to watch this acrobat of the sea ;) We remained for a long time and several times again the animal was coming very close to our boat , so it was a bit sad when we had to sail back home to the port ... we had a fantastic time and didn't want to sail back home ;) Lets see if the Humps continue to dwell around for the fallowing days ~ we cross our fingers XXX
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Whale Watching Iceland April 5th
Really good tour ! We were sailing trough a big magical haze ~ silent , wonderful weather conditions and more calm than yesterdays wavy tour ;/)) and after sailing for only a short while we spotted a big group of white beaked dolphins . They came very close to our boat and it was amazing to watch them all around our boat . They stayed with us for a long time and than we haded further were we spotted a Humpback whale , not only one ~ 5 Humpback whales !!!! When we arrived at this area a mother and calf surfaced very close to our boat ~ only 10 meters distance , it was a breathtaking moment . Humpback whales everywhere ;) It took some while to say good bye and sail back to the port because there was many different kinds of cetaceans out there to day and everyone so happy ~ Fantastic tour !!
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Whale Watching Iceland April 3rd
What a beautiful day. We started our tour in the rain and got wonderful sunshine out in the bay with a clear view on the sourrounding mountains. We searched half an hour and finally found a humphback whale, a grown up animal of approx 15 meters in length. You clearly saw his blows above the surface from a distance of more than 200 meters. In the end he came very close to the boat, about ten meters, and was tail slapping, rolling and breaching. We stayed with him for about one hour. To say it with the words of our passengers: Excellent tour!
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Whale Watching Iceland April 2nd
What a day! The sunshine makes you feel like you can do anything. We got a very nice show by a pod of white beaked dolphins today. They have been hunting and herding fish right infront of our ship. It was amazing to see them circling around the fish swarm diving under the fish and herding them to the surface. The fish was splashing as if there was heavy rain on the surface. Also very many times adult animals and calfs have been diving under the ship and approaching us. All of us got a great view of the white beaked dolphins above and below the water surface.
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Whale Watching Iceland April 1st
It was a quiet cloudy day with some sunny moments and only small waves and it didn't take much time until we found a Minke Whale which was showing us his dorsal fin and long dark back, swimming around us and searching for food. A littlebit further out in the bay we said hello to the big pod of white beaked dolphins which is in these days staying in the Faxaflói Bay, hunting for fish. It was difficult to keep the overview because there were so many of them all around the boat, approx 50-60 animals with their calves, spinning and bow-riding. For the pleasure of our passengers some calves were jumping out of the water and showing their tiny white bellies. It was a good feeling to see our passengers leaving the ship with a big smile on their faces.
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Whale Watching Iceland March 31st
Today we had perfect spring weather, calm ocean and a crisp breeze. We knew that any whale out there was ours to find. After a nice sail with entertaining northern fulmars and a fly-over from a huge yellow headed gannet we saw splashing and some dorsal fins close by. A pod of white beaked dolphins were closing in on us, head on. Very soon after spotting them we had probably around 20 white beaked dolphins all around us, with calves and everything. They were a 'beaut' as someone might phrase it. They were, after a while, hard to follow and since we stress on not stressing our friends we decided to head further out and try our luck elsewhere. Lady Luck was obviously one of our passengers today. Only a few minutes later we were surrounded by somewhere over a hundred white beaked dolphins, and boy did they give us a show. They threw themselves many times their length in to the air, spun in the air, splashed as much as they could, slapped their tail on the surface and so many other stunts that counting them up like this would give me carpal tunnel from writing it all. And they were so close too! We could enjoy all of their beautiful shades right underneath our noses, literally. We had gotten quite a long show from them, saw them feeding in between as well, so we thanked them for the show and sailed further out hoping there were some other, bigger, whales with the same spirit. We had no such luck that time but with the weather as nice as it was and beautiful scenery, we soared with the northern fulmars, kitty wakes, guillemots, eider ducks and our other feathered friends back towards Reykjavik, ready for another adventure when the night has passed.
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Whale Watching Iceland March 30th
When we started the tour today it was quiet foggy and wouldn't let us see further then 200-300m during the whole journey. But a moment after we'd left the harbour a slow swimming pod of 10-15 white beaked dolphins appeared. Especially the tiny little calves were in a good mood to leap, spin and play. Not even 20 min later we got the next pod of 15-25 white beaked dolphins having no fear of our boat. And when we finally reached the middle of the Faxaflói bay another group of animals appeared in the fog. Suddenly 50-60 white beaked dolphins came impressingly fast leaping and swimming towards us, enjoyed to swim all around the boat and play for 20-30 min. A wowing moment.
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Whale Watching Iceland March 29th
Today we spotted our first Minke Whales this year and actually we spotted two of them. It´s always nice to see the first Minkies because then we know soon there will be more of them. Also we know that the spring is coming because the Minkies migrate to south ower the wintertime and back to Iceland ower the summer. Blog from the tour on the way !!
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Whale Watching Iceland March 25th
Finally a rather warm Day! In calm seas we searched a really big area in Faxaflói today and we were rewarded for that: Amongst various Birds such as Northern Fulmar, Kittewake, Herring Gull, Manx Shearwater, Shag, Eider Ducks we even saw the white Iceland Gull. Also we had numerous toothed whales. the first group of white beaked Dolphins were about 7 or 8 animals but as we searced further a bigger Group joined in about 18 to 20 individuals bringing their calfs into the bay! In a distance of 15 to 25 meters they were still a bit protective of their calfs. Great to see about 15 of them surfacing side by side at the same time! Let´s hope they stay for the summer. On the way back we enjoyed Sunshine and Blue skies on the Sundeck.
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Whale Watching Iceland March 23rd
Today we went out in a bit foggy weather and soon after we left the harbour in Reykjavik we could not see the coast anymore. Therefore we had very nice company of northern Fulmars, and Kittewakes. In the whale watching area there were more birds joining in such as: Black backed gulls, Gillmots, herring gulls and even some eider ducks were out there. As a team we were searching for the whales all together for quite some time and found some harbour porpioses. These little and fast toothed whales stayed the only sighting in the tour and all passengers got Tickets for another tour!
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Whale Watching Iceland March 15th
What a Weather! All at once it feels like it is not only spring, but almost summer! Sunshine and blue sky, best visibility and calm seas. Perfect weather to head out into the bay! On this extra tour we started and ended in the Reykjavik harbour to have a look around in our bay Faxaflói. At this time of the year we are awaiting the minke whales to come into the bay. Searching a wide area in good visibility should not be good enough for today. Even though we had a beautiful sailing tour and a lot of fun on board our passengers were invited for another tour!
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Whale Watching tour Sunday, Feb 19th
What a unlucky tour ;( We searched in every nook and corner ~ but no much of whales we have seen in this tour to day . The beginning of our journey seemed promising , because still very near to the Reykjavik port we spotted a small group of Harbour Porpoises . Well, they didn't gave us that much of there time , but still we were able to wink at them ;) There was a number of individuals , but very loose and so we were only able to capture glimpse of there little truly self's ;P They are .. still very minor , never get much bigger ~ cute and as sweet as always . But the environment was beautiful and rather differently than yesterday when all was muffled into snow ~ weather changed into rainy conditions .. fog , drifting .. dark , very dark clouds .. , mild waves .. yet long rolling , quite silence and ... no whale ~ somewhat mysterious to poke around in a fog ;) Some of our brave fellow passengers remained adventure seeking ~ seeking to find " this " whale out there , and some sipping hot chocolate and joining our captain in the wheelhouse ~ which was lotsa fun ;) We sailed very far , all the way to Hafnafjörður, sill further ... We so much wished to find one whale ;( We saw several birds close to our boat ~ Fulmars , Gannets, Glaucous Gulls , well .. there are days like that we call rough luck and we decided to hand out complimentary tickets for our following tours to our brave visiting team ;)
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Whale Watching tour Saturday, February 18th
12:55 Weather conditions were beautiful to day ~ snow everywhere , the bay surroundings were covered in a white veil and it was absolutely magical to sail out today. We started our tour from Reykjavik port ;) After only briefly 20 minutes we spotted our first whales ~ Harbour Porpoises , fairly close to our boat ! They are so cute to look at and they are one of the world's smallest cetaceans !!! We had great luck , because there were quit many of them travelling as a group ;) We were able to see there dark grey black back , also the gray line to the flipper ~ very very cute ! But they left us soon and after sailing some while further, we spotted a small group of White beaked Dolphins , still in great distance but it took only few minutes until they approached our boat which was fantastic . They came very close ~ only 2 to 3 meters and once again in this tour we were able to observe another kind ;) Although they remained travelling as a small group , some individuals came fairly close showing us there bright colour in middle of the side length and there very sharply pointed dorsal fin . We have seen many birds like Black~backed Gulls , Guillemots , Cormorants , Shags , Fulmars and also gannets !!! ;) Several times our eyes thought to spot a Minke Whale surfacing .. further away , but we were never able to really find this mysterious creature ;) Lovely tour !
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Whale Watching tour Friday, Feb 17th
Today we have been sailing out from Njarðvik a little village on the Reykjanes peninsula. In beautiful weather we enjoyed to see the snowy coastline, and a lot of snshine. Unfortunally we did not find any whales in this tour. While searching for whales we had a lot of fun watching birds, such as Fulmars, kittiwakes, several seagulls and a lot of gannets busy fishing. Of course all our passengers were invited to join another tour for free!
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Whale Watching tour Sunday, February 12th
And ... again we had a wonderful journey to day . Starting our tour from Hafnarfjörður , a port town and municipality located on the south ~ west coast of Iceland, about 10 km south of Reykjavík (with a population of 26,099 ) . We decided to sail from this harbour because of the Humpback whale , which is hanging out in this quarter since a few days now , giving us a fantastic time out on sea , above all this whale is very outstanding and distinct ;) To day unbelievably close to ashore ~ two kilometers outside of Hafnarfjörður . Fantastic appearance of our Humpback several times to day showing its fluked tail quite frequently in this tour . Also several times our special " patron " surfaced fairly close to our vessel ( 2 to 20 meters distance only ) ! Close , unbelievably close ;) We were able to see the hair follicles of the animal , very characteristic and the the humpback's pectoral fins shining through the surface ~ we can count a number of magical moments .On our way back we gathered in our cosy coffeehouse , gratis hot chocolate ~ of course , on our captains bill ;) Very good tour !
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Whale Watching tour Saturday, February 11th
12:55 Today we had another fantastic tour ~ wow !!! Once again we were so unbelievable lucky to see the Humpback whale very close to our vessel . The Humpback remained all the time with us , sometimes only about 2 meters distance , it was almost possibly to touch it ! Like in all our tours there is a best moment and to day we had lots of them , but the very best was ~ when the whale emerged all over sudden ahead our vessel . Powerful and unforgettable moment to see a whale face to face People on the very front side our vessel nearly gotten drenched by this splashes ;);) On the way back to Hafnarfjordur harbour we spotted few Harbour Porpoises as well. Tomorrow we sail out again and we can't wait to have another tour like this ~ watching a humpback completely close by the vessel , won't get any closer ;) Super tour !
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Whale Watching tour Friday, February 10th
Today we sailed out from Hafnafjörður; a Town at the end of the capital Area. As we were about to leave the harbour we already found a Humpback Whale! This Animal was quite young and did not lift the Fluke (tail fin) too often. But it was curious and decided to come very close! It stayed with us for a very long time and when we thought 15m from the Ship is close, the whale tought us better and at some points we could almost touch it - or at least the people in the Front of the Ship. And Than sooo close to us it lifted the Fluke - Wonderful! Further on we found some harbour porpoises and we were surprised how long they stayed visible for us. Shaken by all kinds of weather; guided in english and german throughout the tour and with a free Hot Drink to warm up we came back happy to Reykjavik.
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Whale Watching tour Sunday, February 5th
Wonderful tour ~ just like the foregoing tours past weeks . Once again we spotted the Humpback whale and had wonderful tour ;);) Seen in this tour 2 Humpbacks ! Weather conditions were absolutely super for this season . Calmly ,which is the perfect weather to sail out , also sunshine and .. yes .. it was a bit frosty out there , but this tour was so heady ~ we've forgotten about wintriness ;) From far away we were able to detect a huge blow ~ visible ahead our boat . Sailing nearer we were able to see the beauty of our first Humpback . Fantastic ! The Humpback stayed close to our boat ~ only 10 meters distance , sometimes less . Emerging so powerful , very close ~ breath taking and unforgettable moments ! Also we were able to see the animal lifting its fluked tail , which it lifts above the surface in diving . Several times appearing above surface with its head and we saw the lower jaw covered with knobs ~ spectacular !!! Further away we spotted one more Humpback ~ but we preferred to remain with the first individual , cause we had such a good time observing the animal so close to the boat ~ Happy and very successful tour to day and past weeks . Best hope for our upcoming tours ;)
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Whale Watching tour Sunday, January 29th
No, i would not belive it if i had not seen it wih my own eyes! in short: 4 Humpback whales and about 10 Orca whales! Our first Humpback stayed in some distance so we did not disturb it. the Second was similar, even though we got some amazing sighings of the back and the fluke (tail fin). As we continued it took just a couple of moments and Humpback 3 and 4 were spotted! And these 2 are every whakle watchers DREAM! Swimming side by side all the time surfacing and aproaching the boat! Exactly infront of us so we saw them steadyly for several minutes they came towards us. It felt like we could reach out to touch them so close! With these we stayed for about an hour, watching them rolling, sticking the Heads out and more. than we continued to a second species: ORCAS! A a family of 8 to 10 Orcas was hearding fish. Most exciting: the smalles calf did not even have the size of a dolphin, sooo small its white spots were still yellowish. maybe it was only some weeks or month old! They were very close together all the time amd often 5 or 6 were up at the same time! Have a look at the pictures we took:
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Whale Watching tour Saturday, February 28th
Today the Sea was wonderfully calm and clouds caused a mystical atmosphere as we sailed out. Even before we arrived in the feeding area of the Whales we spotted a huge blow far away. We sailed to that direction and followed the path of the Whale as suddenly a huge bumpback apeared right infront of us! We saw the Animal right away and stayed withit for a while. continuing towards the Blows we saw earlier suddenly we were surrounded by 4 others! So we had 5 Humpback whales arround! we stayed with one that was soo artistic! it did a spy hop (sticking the Head out of the water) rolled around showing its balley several times and even did a little JUMP! Around this whale that brought the herring to the surface so we could see it birds gathered (great gannet, northern fulmar, kittewake, Black backed Gull, herring gull). It was a fiest for all but especially for our eyes and cameras!
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Whale Watching tour Sunday, January 22nd.
The Tour yesterday was so exciting, we could not wait to go out again. Punctual at 12:55 we left the harbour of Reykjavik to start another adventure at sea. Again it did nor take us long until we hat the first Spottings: Orca Whales! A big male, a bit smaller female and several joungsters were around. It seemd they had waited for us and especially the calfes approached the Ship as if they were greeting us! After Some Time with the Orca family somethng bigger got our attention! A Humpback Whale! The Humpback approached us from the side as we were still Orca watching and almost gave us a hard time deciding where to look first. We stayed with the Humpback for almost an Hour which entertained und surprised us all the Time. Greeting with the Sideflippers, Fifting the Fluke, turning on the Side and on the Back showing us the balley. In the End The Humpback even lifted its Fluke Weaving us! On the Way back we could not resist but taking another stop around the Orcas. Now Further families had joined in ant at times seven or eight were up at the same time in a Distance of 20 to 200 meters. Once again marine Wildlife totally took us in its bann!
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Saturday, January 21st
Today was one of the greatest Tour ever! We headed out in the best weather, sunshine, blue sky, snowy mountain panorama and not too cold either. It took us less than half an hour until we spotted a huge blow in the sunshine. A big whale it must be to cause that. we went closer and soon we coule see the black back. A HUMPBACK WHALE!!! He was surfacing again and again and we went slowny closer to not disturb him. When it was only about 100meters between Boat and Humpback It actually turned towards us and came much closer! Surfacing frequently, barely ever a whole minute inbetween he showet his Fluke and about 5 times he turned on the Side lifting the Sideflippers high out of the water. Than the next species had already arrived: ORCAS! (Killer Whales) A whole group with several calfs and juvenile animals the group counted about 10 Orcas! At this point it became difficult where to look first? Where to take pictures First??? Surrounded by numerour seabirds such as Northern Fulmar, Kittiwake, great Gannet and more we stayed at the scene for more than 2 hours alwys with Orcas and Humpback in a very close distance or less than 50 meters. Everybody on board loved this spectacular scene and it was far over any expactations!
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Sunday, January 8th
12:55 Weather conditions were fine to day ~ especially to sail out ! A bit of a brume overlaid the perfect glimpse to the horizon and just above we were able to see the mountains tipped with snow bursting trough the "morning" mist . Morning starts up here around noon at this time of the year, when we just have a few hours of light to go , so.. we got to hurry to find the whales ;) After sailing for some while the ocean scenery brighten up and now we sighted a fantastic view onto the sea . Temperatures were not as frosty as in past days , fare from it and the colour of sea brightened grey/blue ~ small waves slowly rolling into bigger once , showering us from time to time ~ ~ ~ ~ fun fun fun , all passengers did enjoy the "sailing" up and down . Beautiful day ! So how about our sightings to day ... after sailing up and down one passenger yelled out , pointing in one direction ~ he seamed certain , very ! ;) And so we spotted our first group withe beaked dolphins in this tour , beautiful creatures ! But they didn't remain for long time and so we kept on sailing and after some while we detected another small group white beaked dolphins , this time appearing very close to our vessel ! Close .. stands for ~ 2 meters ;P This group remained with us for more time ~ and so we enjoyed a great time observing this wonderful creatures . Alttrough we were surrounded by ca 10 individuals , medium size , white , light grey patches on the sides at there body were to see trough sea surface . They left and after some while we spotted another small group of this kind ;) Now , our time was truly over ... daylight slightly changed dawn light and among darkened clouds a spectacles sunset made our tour a happy ending ;)))
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Saturday, December 3rd
12:55 Finally a nice tour again ;) we headed out , surrounded by snow covered mountains towards whale aria and to day we made a successfully tour !!! Weather conditions are fairly ok , no puke waves or strong blowing wind in our faces ;) Absolutely beautiful to see all in white colours and it is unbelievably frosty out there ~ so it is ... magically ;) We didn't had to sail for very long time ~ when a eager eyes passenger spotted a group of white beaked dolphins ~ big group ! They came very close to our vessel and remained for a long time ! We had a fantastic time and when we sailed further out , we spotted one more group white beaked dolphins ~ so we were occupied watching dolphins all the time in this tour ~ Nice ! On our way back home we offered our frosty and brave passengers free hot chocolate , home made captains coffee ~ on the captains bill , of course ;) The atmosphere in our coffeehouse was so cosy ~ especially because we told of old Icelandic myth story's here in Faxi bay ;) Nice
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Saturday, November 19th
12:55 Excellent weather conditions and a good tour yesterday ~ good mooted we headed out , sailing towards the same area were we found the minke whale , white beaked dolphins and Orcas yesterday ;) We are really happy with the weather conditions this weekend ~ calm sea surface made it very comfortable for us to stay outside and enjoy the quiet atmosphere out on sea to day. No strong winds, temperatures not to cold, we were able to stay outside the entire time in this tour ~ Our tour stared promising ~ just after leaving our port in Reykjavik, sailing for about 5 min ~ as suddenly harbour porpoises showed up ahead our boat ~ very close and we were able to see the dark grey black back, shining lighter underneath ~ really good moment. But they disappeared very quickly, very common behavior for those mini whales ;) We kept on sailing and after some while we sighted a sharply pointed dorsal fin.. , no ~ no orcas today, but white beaked dolphins ;) They appeared fairly close to our boat ~ amassing! Only 2 meters and they remained for a long time. We were able to observe those creatures ~ the white colored spots in the middle of their side below. They were fully grown, very big ~ about 3 meters. We saw the gray stripes on their body and the white colors shining through the surface ~ beautiful! We remained for some while in this area and had a fantastic time enjoying these dolphins. As we got news from another whale vessel not far from us, that there is a minke whale nearby and so we sailed closer and really ~ we detected a ... beautiful minke whale!!! Big creature ~ this cetacean surfaced very close to our boat!!! Only 10 meters several times! Once again we were able to observe a whale very close to our boat in this tour ~ black back and several times this cetacean surfaced alongside our boat showing us its large body ~ coming up with its pointed snout first , we got to see the triangular shape of its snout very well and once she came so close that we were able to see the white flippers shining through the sea surface . We were able to make super photographs. A beautiful sized minke whale surfacing ~ behind a magnificent sunset. Really wonderful atmosphere, .. What a nice tour! But.. time.. we all over sudden figure we are overly behind time schedule , one and half ~ hour to sail back to Reykjavik , but it was worth the time and we are very happy ;))) Fantastic tour !!!
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Friday, November 18th
12:55 Today was the BEST TOUR you can imagine. Early in the tour we found a Minke Whale that stayed with us for more then 10 minutes and came as close as 30 Meters. When we went on we found THE SIGHTING OF THE TOUR!!! You would not imagine: KILLER WHALES / ORCAS !!! We came slowly closer and the Group was splitting up. At that point we were not sure how many they are. Very close to us a Female ORCA about 8 to 9 meters long and with her a giant male! His Dorsal fin was well over a meter long! They surfaced as close as 50 Meters from the Boat. Than we saw them Joining the Group again and amongst about 10 KILLER WHALES there was a calf! Even the little Orca was about 4 to 5 Meters long. We enjoyed watching them for more than an Hour; never further away then 100 meters. Even the calf came as close as 5 meters! Before we went back we found a pot of White beaked Dolphins Again a Group with a young one. They even swam under the Vessel and Accompanied us until we had to go back to the harbor.
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Sunday, November 13th
12:55 SUNday is the right name for this day today! Not a single wave out in the made conditions perfect. As soon as you got to know a bit about the whales in the bay we found a Whale. First only a blow in a far distance, than we came slowly closer and we had a baleen whale. One of the big ones. It turned out to be a minke whale that came to have a look at us also. Er saw it surfacing very many times and it came as close as 20 meters. so brautiful. On the way back the sunset caused beautiful colours and we got soo many good pictures of whale and mountains.
nóv
Saturday, November 12th
12:55 Who said that the winter has arrived? The weather today was amazing for November in Iceland. The sea was calm and the heat was "on" We really enjoyed our self out on sea today. The scenery was beautiful, Reykjanes peninsula, the mountain Esja, Akrafjall and other mountains in the neighborhood were beautiful. After appr 40 min sailing we spotted few Dolphins - we felt they were a little bit lazy so we kept on sailing after a while. We scanned a quite big area but no sign of bigger whales this time bu we found another group of White Beaked Dolphins and this group was much more fun to watch than the other. The tour was really nice and the weather was so beautiful.
nóv
Friday, November 11th
12:55 After a couple of days not sailing, both because of weather and also now we are runnig the winter schedule ie. sailing only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, we headed out to the bay in a nice weather. It´s getting colder now - the king Winter has arrived. We decided to sail more to the south because we got news there might be a Humbac on that area. But no sight of the Humpback but in stead we found a friend of us a Minke Whale on same area as we have seen it few times lately. We got the chanche to observe this whale couple of times before we had to sail back home to Reykjavik Harbour. A nice tour in a good weather.
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Whale Watching Iceland September 30th 12:55
This trip was supposed to be promising but unfortunately we did not see anything therefore we invited our guest to come again and gave them a free ticket.
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Whale Watching Iceland September 30th 08:55
We sailed out to Faxafloi Bay-the feeding ground of the whales in which the Minke Whales have returned :) this morning we found about 5-6 Minke Whales and one animal approached us :) This individual kept on surfacing in front of our boat and one time he even rolled over so we saw the flipper of this animal as well. We were not only observing Minke Whales but also Gannets who were hunting, throwing themselves from 30-40m into the water....it was very nice to see how the birds and whales were sharing their feeding ground. Unfortunately we were running out of time and we had to go back to Reykjavik.
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Saturday, October 22nd
12:55 After our successful tour yesterday we sailed once again the third time to this "mystery" area ;) since many days now, we are searching for one big creature that have been seen several days ago by ocean friends .. so we sailed the third time to this more unknown spot and today we searched for quite some while . First all seemed so promising, cause of yesterday’s hope we did bring with us and also weather conditions weren't so bad like other days ~ fairly comfortable for the this time of the year . We searched for more than an hour ! An hour's sailing and searching and finally the coldness was to feel in our frozen bones or perhaps it was getting so cold , cause we lost hope ;( for one more successfully tour like yesterday . We were looking everywhere for our yesterday’s entertaining white beaked dolphins and suddenly we have gotten news from another boat that there is a minke whale , finally ~ but as we sailed nearer to the spot ~ we saw no whale surfacing again . We waited for ages, but no whale. We were disappointed and sailed towards home to Reykjavik harbour . We have not been sailing for long time as shortly after that all at once a minke whale showed up ~ ahead our vessel, only 20 meter ;) Beautiful creature of a whale ~ the strangest thing is that it surfaced like 6 times and very slow alongside our vessel , so we have gotten a real fantastic image of this minke whale and it emerged a couple of times more :) But not only this .. all over sudden we saw white beaked dolphins approaching our vessel and they remained also for some while and when they left we thought now finite and it’s time to sail back home ~ we sailed for only 10 mins and there they was again JUMPING white beaked dolphins ;) This time a big group and they all jumped and once more and once more. All of our passengers were so unbelievable excited and so finally we were ready to sail home ~ with nearly an hour delay, but a fantastic tour to remember .
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Friday, October 21st
12:55 This afternoon we had an amazing Tour. It started with 2 minke whales. The very big one came unbelivebely close to the boat. In calm and silent sea conditions we heared the whale breathe when he surfaced about 5 meters from us, A magical moment! Than all of a sudden and out of the nowhere a big group of Dolphins appeared! It looked like they wanted to present the best show of the day as they started acrobatic jumps all around the Ship. Definitely a very special part of the holiday in Iceland.
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Thursday, October 20th
12:55 Today the weather conditions mean good with us ~ but we sailed to an different aria as usually and in this tour we had to work very hard to find our whales ;( We sailed for a quite long time and finally we found one minke whale surfacing ahead our vessel ~ maybe 100 meters distance. This creature moved very fast which is a typical sign for minke whales when they are well occupied in feeding, searching for nourishment. We was able to see this minke whale surfacing ~ only several times and after it disappeared into the rugged ocean world, not seen again and no other whale seen in this tour. Sadly but still happy to see this one creature we sailed back to Reykjavik harbour . Of course we handed our nice passengers a complimentary ticket for another, much better whale watching tour in fallowing days ;)
okt
Wednesday, October 19th
12:55 Today we were so hopefully because of our very successfully whale tour yesterday ~ sailing out , weather conditions are absolutely beautiful !!! Sunshine and a warm breeze of wind , big waves rolling from south east , magnificent waves ~ slow movement and it’s just so much fun to sail above on such terms of weather conditions . It was very comfy to stay outside the whole time on this tour and further out we thought to have seen a minke whale , but we wasn't certain . Also we were searching desperately for a big humpback whale which is supposed to be around here in faxi bay these days (secret news ;) , but couldn't find it ~ . We are not giving up searching for the big creature!! Maybe tomorrow ;) ... We decided to hand our nice passengers a complimentary ticket to come along with us again for a free whale watching tour whenever days they like to come along with us ;)
okt
Tuesday,October 18th
12:55 Very successfully tour ;) !!!! Minke whales, white beaked dolphins, harbor porpoises!! We headed out surrounded by beautiful snow covered mountains ~ weather conditions are just so excellent today. Past days wind have calmed and this tour was so wonderful, especially the sailing out to the bay, to the whale area. Sunshine battle one's way through and changing colors to a beautiful soft red color above surface. We didn't had to sail long , only 5 min after arriving in whale area ~ white beaked dolphins appeared very close to our vessel . There are no perfect words to describe how incredibly close they came to our vessel ~ 2 meters, nearly able to touch them ;) One calf and its mother were surfacing close and we had such a good time watching the small dolphin calf moving hasty through small waves next to its mother. We remained for 30 min with the white beaked dolphins and then we decided to sail further out ,where we found a great minke whale , still far to sail for us ~ but we didn't get close to the creature and waited for it to approach us ~ and after some while she surfaced only 10 meters close to our vessel ! Wonderful time again ~ this creature surfaced sometimes up to 6 times, remaining very close for a long time . We were able to see it coming up with its snout first and so close!!! Further out we spotted one more minke whale, but we remained with this creature ;) Cause it always kept close to our vessel. Further out we saw harbor porpoises , many of them .... What a tour ;) ;) We are very happy!
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Sunday, October 16th
12:55 Weather conditions calmed after another crazy tempest over the weekend ~ so finally to day we were able to sail out ;) The snow on top of mountain Esja so beautiful and still small waves from the weekend and so we swung into a new adventure ~ sailing with wind and rain, typically Icelandic weather conditions here in Iceland. But in this tour we did not had as much luck , we saw one mike whale further out surfacing , but as we came closer it was gone and so we searched and sailed , but there was no more whales to day . We decided to hand our passengers another tour for free to come along with us again in fallowing days , for a better whale watching tour ;)
okt
Saturday, November 12th
12:55 Who said that the winter has arrived? The weather today was amazing for November in Iceland. The sea was calm and the heat was "on" We really enjoyed our self out on sea today. The scenery was beautiful, Reykjanes peninsula, the mountain Esja, Akrafjall and other mountains in the neighborhood were beautiful. After appr 40 min sailing we spotted few Dolphins - we felt they were a little bit lazy so we kept on sailing after a while. We scanned a quite big area but no sign of bigger whales this time bu we found another group of White Beaked Dolphins and this group was much more fun to watch than the other. The tour was really nice and the weather was so beautiful.
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Tuesday, October 11th
12:55 This afternoon the Wind calmed down and we sailed out in the beautiful bay. From the tour earlier today we knew there would be a minke Whale around and went to the same area. It took a little while for us to find the animal and when it came up about 60 meters from the vessel it only showed for 2 times. As it went for a deep dive we lost track of it and could not find it again. In the end we gave new Tickets to all our Guests. It was still great to sail into the sunset with the view to one of the big Glaciers and all the mountains around.
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Monday, October 10th
08:10 This morning it is a bit colder than the last days, but well prepared with Overalls and hot Chocolate we head out into the sunshine. The view this Morning is outstanding. We see the 2 Glaciers Snæfellsjökull and Eriksjökull all in the colours of the sunrise. Than all at once: A minke Whale! A beautiful and big animal. Our boat seems quite interesting for the Whale, comming closer and closer. Surfacing many times in a row our guests can take good pictures of the Whale. 12 55 wonderful tour ;) Finally the minke whales are back !!!! We are so happy ~ now to day we were able to see all together 3 minke whales , some further away and one very close to our boat ! Unbelievably good show and .. we are just so happy ...Jubi !! ;) In this tour we have seen harbour porpoises , white beaked dolphins and minke whales . One very big ( fat , really it was ;) minke whales surfacing closely to our boat , remaining all time close to us ! So wonderful ;) Past days our crew had to start singing while sailing ~ to keep good hope, it was so difficult to find whales. But to day we had one beautiful creature and we also were able to smell its breath ~ Stinky Minky ;) We really had a wonderful time out there ~ sometimes our fat whale came so close that we were able to see its blowhole fore just one second , incredibly ! We saw the belly and the flippers too ! Fantastic tour :)
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Friday, October 7th
12:55 This tour we headed out in great weather and soon after we learned how to search for the Whales, a minke Whale appeared. we stayed with this nice Minke Whale for a time and saw it surfacing again and again. Suddenly something else cought our attention. A pot of Dolphins in a further distance was acrobaticly jumping and splashing all around. We decided to leave the minke whale and have a look at the dolphins. It turned out they were more than 30 animals, amongst them little calfs and great jumpers. The suddenly dolphins were all around the ANDREA and it was difficult where to look first. If my arms were 1,5 meters longer i could have reached these wild whitebeaked dolphins. On the way back we spotted our third species for this tour: Harbour porpoises. A phantastic tour!
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Wednesday, October 5th
12 55 new day , new tour , new adventure ;) to day we sailed very far ~ it seamed like we never stopped sailing ;) But we so much wished to find whales and have a more successfully tour then yesterday . So we kept on sailing and actually we was not able to sail any further ;) So we stopped and waited for a long time , sometimes this is a fantastic approach for whales ~ all over sudden they appear just ahead our boat , especially minke whales are so curious creatures , so we waited and there was no whale ;( Nun Jae , we decided to sail back to Reykjavik , cause we really tun out of time and just 30 minutes before Reykjavik we spotted a fine group of white beaked dolphins ;););) We was lucky enough to see them close to our boat and for some while they even appeared only 3 meters close ~ so fantastic ! Ok, we have not been lucky to see minke whales to day too ~ we tried so hard to find them , but our dolphins really made this day for us . So wonderful to watch them moving close to our bout . Many of our passengers were able to take good photographs cause they appeared so close !! ;) We was able to see there white stripes along there side and sometimes the undersides which are white coloured as well , so neat ;) We really enjoyed this time ~ not much of a time we had with them , but a wonderful time ;) Still , we offered our passengers to come again if they like too , for a better whale watching tour in fallowing days ;)
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Tuesday, October 4th
12 55 to day we had east wind and so we had to sail above big waves ;) Well , not so big , but some raging waves ;P After good lunch ~ we prepared our fine whale vessel Andrea ~ the most beautiful ship at the Reykjavik port , it really is ! of course , also cause of its wonderful crew ;) We just don't feel the waves so strongly and our cosy Coffeehouse , hot chocolate and home made waffle baked by Jana ~ one of our crew members , she is crazy about fishing and actually caught fish all over this season and now our fridge is stuffed with fish... and Jana gone by tomorrow ~ to day is here last day here on Andrea whale boat ~ and so to day she did not fish , she did not bake ~ she did find a tiny whale ;) One of the world's smallest cetaceans ! One harbour porpoise travelling on its own , which is none common behaviour of this type . Harbour porpoises are mostly seen travelling in groups , but this one travelled alone ;) we headed further out and there we saw one minke whales , a huge blow ! One more ;) Sailing closer we lost it ~ maybe this creature remaining for long time under the water and that's ok with us cause Jana caught some fish and we grilled it ~ having a small boats party ~ swinging music and good atmosphere ;)) We decided to hand our happy passengers a complimentary ticket ~ and hope to see them all back in fallowing days ~ here on our beautiful yacht Andrea ;)
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Monday, October 3rd
12 55 This morning when sailing towards a new adventure ~ we really were surprised to sight first snow at the top of mountain Esja . Beautiful , now the rainbows are gone and first snow have arrived ;) We had to dress warmly ~ slurping hot chocolate and home made captains coffee ;) while looking out for whales , and not long we saw a black back appearing ~ very far but good visibly for us . We sailed closer and then our "whale" never showed itself again ;( We kept on searching for a long time , but we were not able to find more whales in this tour ~ still the atmosphere was fantastic on Andrea and we enjoyed sailing back home to Reykjavik harbour ~ offering our nice passengers a complimentary ticket to come along with us in fallowing days for a better whale watching tour ;)
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Sunday, October 2nd
12 55 in this tour we were lucky ~ cause we didn't had to search for to long ~ a beautiful minke whale appeared closely enough so we were able to observe it for some while , watching the minke whale surfacing several times close . After some while our whale decided to remain under the water ~ we had beautiful weather conditions , even do some rain came as a sweet refreshment ~ we were able to see rainbows , lots of them . wonderful tour ! ;)
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Thursday, September 29th
In calm sea conditions and a cloudy sky we sailed out and found a young minke whale. The Whale was very interested in the ANDREA boat and came closer and closer. Finally so close, that we saw the sideflippers under the surface! For more than 30 minutes he was in a distance of 3 to 35 meters from the vessel. Amazing to see how he enjoyed our company all the time! On the way back it started to rain a bit but we just had some coffee and waffles under Deck.
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Tuesday, September 27th
Sailing out today we got wind that was increasing more and more and than it also started raining. So we had really hard conditions to search the Whales. At some point we decided to just use the trip differently so no valuable holydaytime would be wasted. We turned around, went to a point without rain and way less wind and tried the sea angling. This was way more successful, we cought cod and makrill which the people took home. Also of course they got a Ticket to come back for the Whalewatching.
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Sunday, September 25th
8 55 this morning when we started to set up our fine boat weather conditions seemed a bit more rough than yesterday ~ an ease haze overlaid the sea and the mountains around the fjord were covered in clouds , soft rain and wind ~ all together typical Icelandic weather conditions , but there is something about this weather ~ silent , peaceful and still a bit mystical ;) Perfect atmosphere for whale spotting . We sailed out ~ towards whale area and there were so many gannets to see , unbelievably cool . Watching their spectacular dives into the water from the air , some from the height of 20 to 30 meters . Plunging from high in the air , it's so magnificent ! After some while we spotted our first minke whale surfacing fairly close to our vessel ~ one beautiful creature ;) But since everything this morning started up so promising ~ our first whale decided to sneak away from us and we never saw it again ;( We sailed a bit further and found one more minke whale and it was just the same story .. mhhhh . But we detected white beaked dolphins and they came very close , very close ! Only 5 meters ahead of our vessel ! We had them just for a little while around , but to have them so closely was brilliant . We were able to see all of them ~ especially their grey stripes on each side and the white colours on their belly, white coloured beak . Really nice ! We gave our passengers another complimentary whale watching ticket to come along with us again in following days for a better whale watching tour . 12 55 After a good pause and delicious hamburgers for our crew ;) We sailed out , now with hope that this might be a better whale watching tour and the whales perhaps remain a bit longer close to our boat than in the morning ~ We sailed our common course and still there was dense fog around ~ but quickly after sailing some while the fog was lifting off and so we had a clear sea surface . We sailed for a long time and again there were so many gannets around , such a beautiful atmosphere ;) But no whales at all this time . We had many rainbows rising above the mountains , the ocean and once just above our vessel . Magical colourful ;) September is the months of rainbows here in Iceland and together with the veil of brume and soft rain ~its just something so different about it ~ just Iceland ;) We found no whales in this tour and we gave our passengers another gratis tour for free to come along with us again for a better whale watching tour here with our nice whale yacht Andrea ;)
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Saturday, September 24th
8 55 in our morning tour we had some rain and it was pretty cloudy , but sea conditions were very calm . Good weather for whale spotting . Morning brume made our tour more mystical and adventures , always nice to spot whales in this kinda ~ typical Icelandic weather conditions :) After a short while searching ~ a beautiful minke whale rocket up , suddenly ~ just ahead our vessel . It was sorta amassing to see this creature so close and unbelievably “suddenly appearing ahead our vessel “ . It surfaced several times , but than we lost our morning stranger ;) From some other boat we knew there were white beaked dolphins around and when we came to the spot ~ they were gone ;( We sailed further out searching for a new whale and somewhere far we really did detected a blow and also many gannets diving into the water ~ we stopped our vessel and waited , but we have never seen the whale that might have been possibly there . On our way back home to Reykjavik harbour we spotted harbour porpoises and for one moment they came fairly close to our vessel , but for just a short while . We decided to hand our passengers a complimentary whale watching ticket , to come along with our fine Andrea vessel in coming days or week ~ when ever they
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Friday, September 23rd
8 55 this morning we had good weather conditions ~ sunshine and calm sea . But weather and time is becoming unfairly cold ~ slowly ;) This tour we can call successful , cause we spotted white beaked dolphins on the very beginning of our tour . They appeared so close to our boat , but just for a short while and soon after that we spotted our first minke whale ~ a blow further out ;) when we sailed closer we saw the black back and a beautiful creature surfacing several times closely to our vessel :) But we found out that we had more minke whales around ~ and not even far away from us . All together we was able to observe 4 minke whales and couple of them appeared alongside our vessel and we had a fantastic time watching them and there way of surfacing , its always breathtaking to watch . Also we have seen many gannets diving into the water and so we had one big adventure out on sea . A wonderful whale watching tour ;) 12 55 now after having a good lunch break we headed out ~ back to the place where we found so many whales in the morning . Weather now was warming up and sunshine became so strong ~ almost like back in old summer days this year .. :) We sailed and to our surprise there was no whales . We thought maybe we just have to search a bit longer and sometimes we stopped the boat and just waited ~ a good method that often works in whale spotting . But also nothing , the ocean looked endless and no movement , so sign ;( But still beautiful , to be out on sea with such a calm sea surface and fantastic weather conditions . We came far over our the time limit ~ searching until the very last minute and we found no whales at all . We handed our passengers a complimentary ticket ~ to come with us for another , of course better whale watching tour in fallowing days ~ on our fine whale boat Andrea ;)
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Thursday, September 22nd
8:55 12:55 In great sunshine we sailed outm found quickly a pot of Dolphins, continued to 2 big minkes and a calf. On the way back we found another group of about 8 Dolphins this time jumping out of the water and as close as 30 meters. Suddenly something drove them away and in the same second 2 minkes appeared even closer to the Boat! All of this in Sunshine and calm Sea. Amazing Tour and everybody went with a big smile of board.
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Wednesday, September 21st
8 55 this morning was beautiful ~ when we arrived at the harbour to prepare our fine whale vessel, sunshine and calm sea were laying ahead of us . Our captain boiled good strong " sailors cafe " and the first passengers arrived and so we sailed out into this beautiful day awaiting us ~ towards whale area . We sailed our common course and not much time passed as we sighted splashes far ahead and when we looked through our binoculars we saw white beaked dolphins , lots of them . Same story ~ bow riding ahead our vessel and jumping ;) Sometimes they appeared so close we were able to see the white light coloured beak , conic head . We had about 10 animals , maybe more surrounded our vessel ! But this is so common ~ white beaked dolphins are attracted by boats and often they bow ride , its so much . Well , we headed further and the mountains around Faxi bay looked so magnificent with the different colours of the sunshine ~ sheering trough the clouds , and it wasn't long as we detected a minke whale rocking right ahead our vessel ~ showing its big black back and we also had a wonderful time here with this creature . Not long , one more minke whale showed up ~and so we had 2 minke whales surfacing close to our vessel ;) On our way back to Reykjavik we spotted one more minke whale , but further away. Still we was able to observe this creature very well ~ seeing its big blow and several times coming up with its big triangulate shaped snout first , we've gotten a real fantastic picture of this creature . White beaked dolphins showed up again ~ this time jumping and jumping alongside our vessel and also 2 little white beaked dolphins calf's were to see :) We sailed back home ~ very happy ! 12 55 In beautiful sunshine we went out it did not last long to find a pot of Dolphins! First five, than ten, than more! 2 mothers with calfs amongst them. We spotted them, because they jumped high out of the Water and when we came closer many kept jumping and some turned around in the air, landing on their back! A Great show! Continuing further we found 2 minke whales coming as close as 30 to 50 meters we stayed with them for a while. On our way back we got so lucky to spot a minke calf, which was 4 to 5 meters long. Unexpectedly a fourth minke came up right in front of the Vessel as we continued further, this time a really big whale! All in all a fantastic tour in great weather.
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Tuesday, September 20th
8 55 this morning south ~ east wind formed our bay ;) But nothing to worry , still very nice waves to enjoy sailing towards whale aria . Small clouds and blue sky :) we sailed our common course and just as we reached our spot a huge blow was visibly ~ still far out , but very good to see for us . We were so excited and as we came closer a huge minke whale surfaced several time before than disappearing under the water ~ waiting .... looking for our found creature ~ huge whale ;) , it actually didn't make us wait to long and appearing suddenly alongside our vessel ~ incredibly close and so we were able to observe this beautiful minke whale so well ! Our new friend bide a while with us ~ a long while :) Staying with us all the time and we had a wonderful morning tour . Once our minke whale surfaced only 10 meters close and so we have gotten our perfect whale watching moment and fantastic photograph's were taken by our very excited passengers;) 12 55 our second tour to day ~ after good lunch and now more sunshine and less waves we sailed out into a new adventure . we actually were not so lucky in this tour ~ searching so much and we found not really a whale that we were able to observe closely . One creature was spotted further away and surfacing several times but when we came closer it was gone ;( we remand for some while in this area ~ hoping for our creature to appear again , but nothing . On our way back to Reykjavik harbour we saw harbour porpoises appearing fairly close ~ but since we can not call this a perfect whale watching tour we offered our friendly passengers a complimentary tour in fallowing days or weeks , or even years ;) Still it was a nice tour precisely the sunshine and sailing and excellent atmosphere at our coffeehouse !
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Monday, September 19th
8 55 new morning ~new week , new adventure ;) so excited about sailing , cause yesterday bad weather came into the Bay and we were not able to sail out , so now we was even more excited to sail out and weather conditions have calmed totally . to day was the rainbow day ;) so beautiful ~ so many and one big one surrounding our boat and another one just above the mountain Esja , the colours were so strong and magnificent . So we sailed trough rain and Sunshine and rain and sunshine and many rainbows in between ~ beautiful Monday morning ;) we actually had to search for a long time and there was no whales ;( After long time searching we thought we have found dolphins , but they left so quickly , mhhh ~ but we still had the rainbows ;P we also saw harbour porpoises and they also were occupied ~ speeding away . We gave our nicely passengers another complimentary tour to come again with us ~ in fallowing days or years ;) 12 55 now we had lots of sunshine and a few passengers from our morning tours came along with us again ~ we think because of the rainbows over the ocean , they are just so unbelievably beautiful ;P Only in Iceland , in the months of September ~ most beautiful time to sail ;) weather is still warm and many whales are still present in the bay before travelling to south . Very often we see minke whales surfacing just underneath a rainbow . But not to day ;( Well , but we have seen dolphins , lots of dolphins !!! Many white beaked dolphins , and they remained close to our boat for a very long time . Sometimes they were only 2 metres close , we was able to observe them so well and had a fantastic time . Also they were bow riding ahead our boat and so we saw there white lines at there body shining trough the surface ~ magnificent moments . But we wanted to find a whaaaale , a real big one ;) and so we headed further out and we had to search for a long time and all over sudden a young boy was yelling “ a whale , a whale !!! " We stooped our fine big boat and there was a whaaale surfacing alongside our boat ~ only 10 meters , just as we wished so much before ~ a real big creature , minke whale , rushing like a mad whale trough the waves , no .." throwing " is the better way to describe its lively movement ;) ~ most likely feeding on mackerel , a very fast moving delicious fish ;) We only saw this minke whale creature several times surfacing and then disappearing into the deeps of the ocean , never seen again ~~ Well we decided to sail back home to Reykjavik ~ preparing our fresh catched mackerel for a dainty dinner ;) ;P
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Saturday, September 17th
8:55 A very nice day to start with a wonderful whale watching tour ;) Very successfully tour and also weather conditions didn't disappointed us ~ calm sea surface , no waves and wonderful atmosphere ~ so silently ;) We didn't had to sail very far to day , cause just as we arrived close to our common aria where we find mostly whales ~ we spotted a minke whale , very small creature and she surfaced only 2 times every time , once she surfaced . Nice , to observe a more younger creature and it was very occupied feeding and so we headed further out where we saw from further away jumping withe beaked dolphins !!!! so many and so many of them were jumping ;);) We had to sail a bit to reach them , but actually we was so lucky ~ cause they were travelling towards us and so fairly soon they appeared very close to our boat and stayed for whole time with us ;) We had a really fantastic time with them ~ withe beaked dolphins ;) Often they jumped and also there was sooooo many of them all around the boat , some further away and some very close ~ nice morning tour and now we are sailing back to Reykjavik harbour for a yummy noon meal ;) 12:55 Our second tour to day ~ wonderful !!! We headed out , sailing above totally calm sea surface and also the colour of the ocean changed compare to the morning ~ now very bright , which is very good to spot whales ;) At the very beginning of our tour we spotted a minke whale surfacing in further distance and as we sailed closer we saw a wonderful creature surfacing several times closely to our vessel ! Once appearing so close we was able to observe her black back and the triangulate South coming up first while it was surfacing ~ magnificent moments , also we could listen to the sound of the whale , breathing while coming up to surface . But our attention was taken by the withe beaked dolphins that appeared again further away ~ of course jumping ;) We remained a bit longer with our minke whale , but then heading towards the dolphins and again ~ fantastic time with them ! This time they came so lose to the boat ~ we could have touched them , really ;) We could see there white and light grey patches on there sides , also the white stripes alongside there body , there huge dorsal fin ~ and also the light coloured beak ~ so closely !! ;) We are so happy with this tour and now sailing back home o Reykjavik harbour ~ enjoying the rest of the Saturday's evening ;)
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Thursday 15.9
8 55 our morning was actually really nice , cause of the sailing tour was so incredibly nice . we didn't had to sail very far and there was a minke whale rocking underneath the morning sunshine , appearing just ahead our vessel ;) Nice creature and for some good while we was able to observe it from all edges ~she was so close to our boat , but then all over sudden she disappeared , we searched and looked all around our boat and there was nothing then entire endless ocean ;) Beautiful ! We decided to sail further out were we found a small group of withe beaked dolphins ~ but they also ... all over suddenly needed to go some other place ~ so we gave our brave passengers a complementary ticket to come along with us again in fallowing days ~ for a better whale watching tour ;) 12 55 ohhh no , a very unlucky tour ;( och no ;.( ... we searched every where , but not able to find any whales ~ but we got a nice sailing tour around the bay ~ always nice !!! ;) so our passengers will come again , of course with a complementary ticket ~ for a more successfully whale watching tour in fallowing days ~ or even years ;)
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Wednesday, September 14th
8 55 we sailed out in this beautiful weather conditions ~ sunshine and calm sea , and also our morning tour was so successfully ;) When we reached whale aria we saw a minke whale further away and soon after that we detected several minke whales , about 4 different minke whales ;) Also we was so lucky to find withe beaked dolphins appearing in our tour . Again we had a mother and her little calf and actually the group of dolphins we saw cam very close to our boat ~staying with us for a very long time ! On our way back we saw harbour porpoises and all together we had a very successful morning tour ! ;) 12 55 our second tour to day ~ we headed out , sailing our common avenue towards whale aria and being so lucky in the morning we hoped now for the very best whale tour again . Very quickly we detected our friends the withe beaked dolphins again and this time there was so many of them ;))) The group we have spotted was just so huge and dolphins everywhere around our vessel ! we sailed further out to find more whales but everywhere we sailed we just saw dolphins ~ very nice tour and they remained with our boat for so long time ! bow riding ahead our vessel and especially the little calf sometimes jumped out the water ~ so wonderful to watch . Very very nice tour !
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Tuesday, September 13th
8 55 weather condition became so excellent ~ still strong waves , but not so big as yesterday :P after boiling strong captains cafe we headed out to whale aria to find Hrefna Jonasdottir ~ and we did :) Sailing our common "avenue" ;) and at the very beginning we met a group withe beaked dolphins . Absolutely fantastic show ~ they stayed very close to our boat and there was a mother and her calf ... so sweet !!! The little one was jumping over and over again ;)) We had such a wonderful time and stayed with this group of withe beaked dolphins for a very long time . But then we headed further out where we found all together 4 minke whales !!! One appeared so close to our boat ~ only 10 meters ! After some while also Hrefna Jonasdottir came along and showing us a wonderful time , surfacing several times close to our boat as well ~ A happy tour ;) 12 55 our second tour was also very successfully ! We headed ~ sailing our common avenue , especially back to the spot we was so lucky in the morning tour . Now , waves have totally calmed and sailing was just fun ~ sunshine pure ! This tour we did something very special ~ we stopped at the same aria where we detected the minke whales in the morning and we just waited :) A really special way ~ cause we never know and there is so much trust .... and really, after about 10 minits waiting time all over sudden a huge creature appeared just 5 meters ahead our vessel !!!! A beautiful formed minke whale ~ one magnificent moment ! The way she appeared was just so incredibly and she remained all time close to our vessel . Sometimes moving away for about 100 meters and then again appearing just 5 meters close to our boat . The manner how she appeared was so spectacular ~ unexpected cutting the surface , wow ;) Very adventures tour with many happy tourists waving us thankfully good bye ;)))
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Monday, September 12th
8:55 weather conditions at the harbour looked rather calmly ;) but ~ when we reached into the bay banging waves awaited us , so our fine whale boat Andrea became a wiggle seesaw ~ heavy north east wind made it a raving sea and so we were not taken by surprise when splashy waves were showering above us , we actually enjoyed it a lot and so to day we did not were really successfully with finding whales , but surly many passengers are now called real sailors ;);) We did spotted at the very beginning of our tour withe beaked dolphins ~ but unfortunately lost them pretty soon ;( We headed further , well as fast and good we were able too ~ most of us drenched by the oceans spectacle and out of nowhere suddenly rocks up this huge minke whale , but so wild ~ bashing itself trough the waves ~ very beast like picture ;) But the sea colour appeared so dark and so it was difficult to behold to our whale ~ we saw this stranger several times surfacing and then we lost hold of it . A few harbour porpoises appeared but so shortly and then tehy were gone phhhhhh ~ well , we did offer our brave passengers another tour for free to come along with us again for a better whale watching tour ~ of course a complimentary tour ! Despite the bad sea conditions, many people actually enjoyed this adventures tour ;) 12:55 Tour cancelled due to a strong wind in the bay.
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Sunday, September 11th
Kl. 8:55 Sunshine in the middle of September in Iceland...so nice and also the sea was very calm today. The visibility was perfect to go out whale watching :) We encountered soon a pod of Harbor Porpoises who prefered to leave us...sometimes rather shy animals. We kept on sailing and found 3-4 Minke Whales. Once in a while close to our boat and twice we heard and saw the blow clearly. While we waited for our Minke Whale to surface again some Harbor Porpoises appeared but like before they left us immediately. What a nice and excinting trip :) Kl. 12:55 Sunshine in Reykjavik and in Faxaflói Bay :) On our second trip today we had to sail quite far out and search for a while until we spotted a little group of White Beaked Dolphins. They were pretty active, splashing water and once in a while they approached our boat so we could see the white stripe on their
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Saturday, September 10th
8:55 Finally weather conditions calmed ~ so nicely !! Juhu ;) we are ready to sail out into a new adventure and this morning really rocked ;) first of all ~ sunshine pure and yes , bretty cold ~ lately , but we are real solid sailors and so no weather conditions kink into our sailor temper ~ first we met some harbour porpoises very close actually and so as we sailed further out we found dolphins !! white beaked dolphins ;) Bow riding and staying very close for some while ~ after some while they disappeared and we headed further out , where we detected one minke whale further out . Fantastic creature ~ cause after some little while she appeared unbelievably close to our vessel and this for a long time period !!! This creature rolled around and so we were able to observe her so well and surfacing so often ! All together we have seen about 4 minke whales and 2 of them remained very close to our vessel ;) Super tour and good weather conditions are back at the ocean ~ happy day ! Kl. 12:55 What a great sunny day and very calm sea...best condition to go out whale watching :) On our way to Faxaflói Bay we encountered a little pod of Harbor Porpoises but unfortunately they only stayed with us for a little while until they left us...sometimes they are very shy. We kept on sailing and searching...sailing in all directions in the bay we sadly did not find other whales and decided that this tour was not good enough therefore we gave our tourists an extra ticket for free and they can join us again at any time :)
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Friday, September 9th
8:55 No tour 12:55 Today was a bit windy day but we had beautiful sunshine. Early in the Tour we stopped the boat for something swimming around us that disappeared as fast as it came. But sailing out we heard about the Whales, how they behave and how to spot them. We had a lot of Northern Fand even more Great Gannets around. Birds with a wingspan up to 1,8meters were hunting for fish all around us. And than we spotted a minke Whale!!! The minke was very interested in the Ship and came several times really close to the boat. Even though we had waves, we could see the back and eyes clearly above the surface and the white bandages on his Sideflippers below the surface. Blue sky and sunshine followed us all the way back to the Harbour and made it an even better (holi-) DAY!
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Thursday, September 8th
8:55 Cancelled due to a strong wind 12:55 Cancelled due to a strong wind
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Wednesday, September 7th
08:55 weather conditions was not so fantastic to day ~ we had big rolling waves and so we sailed out to try our luck :) To sail upon waves like that can be really adventures and so it was ~ unfortunately we did not find any whales , but we had so much fun to just sail ~ vertical and horizontal trough Faxi bay ;) We offered our nice brave passengers another tour for free to come along for a better whale watching tour in fallowing days ! Still we had a good time out at the ocean ;) 12:55 Cancelled due to a strong wind
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Monday, September 5th
8:55 our first tour and a nice one ;) we sailed out upon calmly sea conditions and , soft wind blowing from south east . really nice to sail out and actually we didn't had to sail far to make the first find ~ a minke whale , very nice one ;) greeting us good morning , rocking up ~ just 10 metres close to our boat ~ ahead the boat ! Beautiful creature and she loved to stay under the water for a long time and sometimes she surfaced again , appearing so close to our boat . After some while we headed further out and we detected withe beaked dolphins !!! A group of withe beaked dolphins gave us a fantastic " show " !! ;) they remained for quite some while , long while and we saw there body and coloured withe lines so good , very close ~about 5 metres to our boat . Very nice tour ! 12:55 wonderful tour , our second tour ;) we sailed our common course and found a wonderful minke whale appearing only 20 metres close to our boat , just like in our first tour this morning :) we remained for some good while , but again this minke whale stayed so long time under the water surface . Most likely this is the minke whale we have seen in our morning tour ;) later we detected withe beaked dolphins and again ~ good show !!!!!! So many of them and so amassingly close to our boat ~ for a very long time ! On the way back to Reykjavik ~ we saw our minke whale again and greeting good bye ;) 16:55 weather conditions are so magical ~ in our evening tour we had so many rainbows , so colourful shining trough the gray evening colours ;) Very beautiful and we shut many good pictures . Sailing out we found a big , really big group of harbour porpoises ~ this time behaving differently then usually , jumping and surfacing all the time close to our boat ~ so unbelievably time we had with them ! Also lots of gannets in the show and the harbour porpoises appeared over and over so close to our boat !!!! Underneath the sunset ... wow ! We was able to observe them so good , good vista :) After we sailed very far and found a minke whale surfacing several times ~ also good show ;) This nice creature appeared only 10 metres to our boat ~ alongside and so , yes eventually we had to sail back home and go to sleep ~ Game over , day over ;))
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Saturday, September 3rd
08:55 This morning we had beautiful weather and the bay, that was crowded of birds. But we also saw minke whales and harbour porpoises. The porpoises really surprised us, because we expacted the minkie to come up when they appeared infront of the vessel. One of the minkies was so playful to turn around under water and showed us its white Stomach and fluke!! Also at a time we were surrounded by at least 2 or 3 minkes, so it became difficult to decide where to look first. A great tour!!! 12:55
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Thursday September 1st
Kl. 8:55 Tour was cancelled because of bad weather conditions. Kl. 12:55 It was not so windy anymore and it even stopped to rain. We went whale watching and we had to be very patient until we found one Minke Whale who surfaced a couple of times but left us afterwards immediately :( not everyone was able to see this animal and we decided that this tour was not good enough and gave our tourist an extra ticket for free so they could come and join us again :)
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Wednesday, August 31st
Kl.8:55 It was raining a bit but we had some very nice and motivated tourists who wanted to see whales ;) We sailed to Faxaflói Bay where we soon encountered one Harbor Porpoise who was so shy that he left us immediately :( sailing a little bit further we spotted 3-4 Minke Whales and one calf :) so cute and small but not shy at all. The calf came even closer and checked us out. Kl. 12:55 Second tour for today and it stopped raining :) We found a little pod of Harbor Porpoises who were not as shy as the animal we had spotted earlier today, they surfaced constantly...sometimes all of them at the same time -wonderful- We found the 3-4 Minke Whales again and one particular animal approached our boat :) so we were even able to see the whole animal through the surface of the water and could even see the white stripe that Minke Whales have on their flippers. Very successful tour!!!
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Tuesday, 30th of August
Kl. 8:55 From now on we only run 2 times a day and on our first trip this morning we sailed into Faxaflói Bay where we soon encountered a Minke Whale who surfaced a couple of times but then prefered to dive deeply and stayed under water for a while so we kept on sailing until we found 3 Minke Whales who appeared more often. On our way back we encountered our little friends the Harbor Porpoises, a little pod who was surfacing at the same time ...so cute :) All of a sudden there was one of the Minke Whales again, surfacing right in front of our boat :) Wonderful! 12:55 This tour we had a cloudy sky and good conditions on Sea. On our way out we learned about the Whales and how to spot them. Than we saw jumping Dolphins, which were of course the white beaked dolphins. They joined us for some time and surfaced again and again right infront of the vessel. Further on we found 2 different minke whales and both of them came quite close to the Boat. A successful tour also for everybody, who hat to catch a flight!
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Monday, 29th of August
8 55 what a tour ;) we saw withe beaked dolphins , harbour porpoises and one beautiful minke whale !!!! weather conditions were still a bit wavy and so we sailed out ~ ~ not very long we found a group of harbour porpoises surfacing so nicely , really ~ we was able to observe them very well ! Our guests was so excited and taken , also we did not had to sail for very long as we detected our first minke whale and this creature remained for so long time ! Further out several more minke whales , but just as we wanted to kip sailing a group of withe beaked dolphins showed up and gave us theeee time ;) the dolphins remained for more than 20 minutes close to our boat and also the minke whale showed up again ~ staying a long time ;) so nice tour ~ 12 55 Now weather became sooooo beautiful , so silently and calm . sea surface bright like a mirror and the ocean became so inviting . Now soon the time for the rainbows here in Iceland will start ( September ) , out on sea this is just so beautiful . Not cold , not warm ~ just fresh breeze's of ocean air ;) well well , we sailed out and just as we arrived on our common spot we spotted a fine minke whale . A special one .. Oscar ? this wonderful creature came very close to our boat from the very beginning we meet ;) and then all over sudden disappearing , rocking up behind our vessel and JUMPED ! this kind behaviour just belongs to one whale called Oscar ;) also our minke whale remained ALL time with us , and so CLOSE !!! the strangest thing ~ there was no other whale close by ;) There is no doubt our old friend was back ;) ;) We had to eventually sail back .. ;( But time ~ always returns back to us ;)
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Sunday, 28th of August
8:55 News from our first tour to day ;) wonderful tour . wow ! All birds were back ;) and with them many minke whales . so unbelievably beautiful scenery ~ there no perfect word to describe the magic in the air ~ we sailed out above a carpet of big rolling waves ~ drifting coming from west . The colour of the sea surface so bright and slowly a brume , so beautiful laid a veil ~just above surface . The scenery so beautiful , mist all around and so many gannets diving into the water ~ the gannets are back and so many :)))) large white birds , they often make spectacular dives into the water from the air , heights of up to 30 metres !!! and to day we had theee show ;) we have seen a group of harbour porpoises appearing very closely to our boat and also we have seen all together 4 minke whales . One creature stayed all time with our boat and we had a perfect time to observe different individuals ;);) 12:55 Our second tour was just so wonderful ~ weather conditions were not for every one ;) but , still enjoyably for most if us ~ now waves boost even more , sailing out vertical and horizontal , kinda ;) lots of fog and small rain showers , but wind came smoothly , not cold like in past days ! After some while sailing we stopped they boat and waited for a while . Being so into the waves and scenery ~ quipping a whale might show up soon " we just stay and wait " ;) really out of the blue ~ a magnificent minke whale creature rocked just 20 metres close to our boat ~ surfacing so nicely and several times over and over again . Wilde creature ;) throwing itself<