Tour at 1300: The weather forecast told us it might be quite windy out in the bay today so we warned the passengers however, once we were on the water and sailing the sea conditions were perfect, almost mirror calm. The rain also stayed off of us for most of the tour which was great. The Humpback Whale (Mr. Square i call him because of his square shaped dorsal fin) was so close to the coast today that we even saw Harbour Seals playing in the surf and Harbour Porpoises whilst we were watching the humpie. That wasn´t even the best of it Mr. Square BREACHED out of the water just maybe 30 meters in front of us, there were absolutely no words for it. He only did this once in the tour so you have to be always preperred for these once in a life time experiences. We went looking for other species further out but they just weren´t there today but, we were really happy with our sighting today. Excellent day.

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Tour at 1300. A little bit windy and cold today out in Faxafloí Bay but that wouldn´t deter the whales so why should it deter us. We saw 3 Humpbacks Whales today and spent time with two. We got to see some interesting behaviour today, including lunge feeding, tail slapping, resting, feeding and logging which were just incredible to watch. We also saw the fluke (tail) coming up out of the water many which was decribed by one of our passengers as "something from a David Attenborough documentary".  As the tour was ending the sun was lower in the sky and got that beautiful wintery light. A great day to be out on the water.

Humpback fluke

Passengers enjoying the Sunset in Faxafloí Bay whiclst waiting for the humpback to resurface.

Humpback bring up its tail or fluke.

Beautiful Sunset

Photographs taken by Megan Whittaker

Tour at 1300 Once again an incredible day. We started the tour of on a little bus ride from Reykjavik old harbour where our office is to Hafnarfjörður. In reykjavik it was really windy, raining and miserable so even though we had high hopes for the whales we had little for the weather. However, as soon as the boat left the harbour the sky cleared and it was the perfect day as sea. Today we saw 3 Humpback Whales and a pod of Orca for calves probably a few weeks old to grandparents. There was also seabirds everywhere, really beautiful winter light and the wind seemed to die down too. Great day (with all aspects) to be at sea.

Video of the day can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5RwWTVA-gk&feature=share

Tour at 1300 Again amazing day out from Hafnarfjörður. We spotted 3 humpback whales. First we saw two travelling together. We stayed with them for a while or until we saw another humpback whale further out. We got to see the fluke many times and the whales surfaced sometimes very close to the boat! After some time with the humpbacks we decided to go and search for the orcas. No luck with the orcas but on the way back and very close to land we saw another humpback whale. We are not sure if we saw that one in the beginning of the tour or if it was the 4th one, but it was vey nice to end the tour with a beautiful humpback!

Video can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnuzDnYY1i0 Enjoy :)

Tour at 13.00 Once again we sailed out from Hafnafjörður. Luckily the rain stopped the moment we started the tour and waited to start again until we were back in the Harbour. Even the sun came out whilst we were sailing in the calm seas of Faxaflói Bay and it was not only the weather, that made this day increadible!!  Today we encountered three Humpback Whales and a family of Orca!!! The first Humpback we found, was just five minutes away from the harbour. Because he seemed to be resting, we decided to leave him in peace and head towards two other Humpback Whales that were swimming side by side. It was just lovely to see those two together, they must have met here in Faxaflói Bay, because one of them we spotted several times since the last few weeks and until today she/he was travelling alone. There was a lot of boat traffic around those two animals so we decided to go further out and we soon found a pod of Orca (5-8 Orca) from newly born to grandparents. They came really close to us on many occasion which was really nice. On the way back we had a short stop at the two humpbacks again. Just a perfect Day for all of us!!!

Video of the day can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9hDq826i8c 

Photographs and video by Megan Whittaker

Once again we sailed out from Hafnarfjörður. It only took us few minutes to spot the first blow! And then...no wait a minute...another blow further away, and then another one! We had about 5-7 humpback whales in the area actively feeding on the herring. We saw very interesting feeding behavior such as rolling in the surface and coming straight up with the mouth open. This was absolutely amazing tour. Sometimes we were lucky and the whales came just up against the boat!

Video of the tour can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSMqo-8BKsY&feature=share 

Pictures taken by Megan Whittaker

We sailed out once again from Hafnarfjörður today in a very windy weather. It only took us about 5 minutes or so (or at least it felt like it) to spot a humpback whale! Soon we saw that the humpback was not alone feeding on the herring, but a family of Orca was there as well. The killer whales came really close to the boat so we could take a good look at them. The humpback was also showing us quite interesting behavior, rolling in the surface and tale slapping. We had a great time with the whales but the wind had picked up a lot so we headed back to the harbor after a fantastic but windy time with the whales.

Tour at 13:00 Todays tour has unfortunetly been cancelled due to strong winds. If you have any enquiries please call us or come down to the office which will be open till 5pm . Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Tour at 1300 Again we sailed out from Hafnafjörður. Today the weather was really good, we had beautiful surroundings with fresh snow and the sea was really calm. Just a few minutes after leaving the harbour we spotted the blow of a Humpback Whale. While sailing towards him/her we also found a second Humpback Whale a bit further away. Both of them were no strangers to us, beside seeing them for the last four days, one of them was encountered in Faxaflói Bay June 2008 and July 2009. The other Humback was seen in Husavík between July 29 and August 3 2011. Both of them came really close to the Boat, one was even under the Boat and came up to the surface just 2 Meters in front of us! But they did not only spend a long time with us, they furthermore showed us a lot of different behaviours, such as resting, rolling and lunge feeding. Once it really felt like one of them was interacting with the Boat, when he rolled very close to us. Again an amazing day with the Whales near Hafnafjörður, eventhough we unfortunetly didn't have the Orcas today.

Pictures taken by Megan Whittaker

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