Whale diary

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    Tour at 17:00

    Really a wet day today! It kept on raining on this tour, as well. We spotted two minke whales and a group of white-beaked dolphins. We saw the dolphins jumping and breaching, too!

     

    Tour at 13:00

    This afternoon the rain was still coming down but again we

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    Tour at 17:00

    It got a little bit windier in comparison to the morning and early afternoon tours but we had a very nice tour out at sea. We first spotted a couple of minke whales, which unfortunately surfaced only once. We then decided to keep on going and we ended up in a very suggestive

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    Tour at 17:00

    It starts to be more windy than during the day. On the way out we watched the Puffin island. Later Minke whales, two of them traveling very close to us. We saw many blows all around. We followed one Minke whale and observed it from a  close distance. It was slow traveling an

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    Tour at 17:00

    The wind calmed down and the sea was really calm, and thanks to these ood conditions we spotted a lot of minke whales and especially th one we spotted at the end of the tour approached us a lot. A lot of sea birds and puffins on Akurey.

     

    Tour at 13:00

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    Tour at 17:00

    We sailed out again, and soon came to the area where we have had plenty of Minke whales, and sure enough, they were still there. We observed the Minke whales for a while before heading further out. As we were sailing we spotted a breaching Minke whale in the distance, but it

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    Tour at 17:00

    We sailed to Akurey and found lots of puffins on the island, finally! There have not been very many puffins for the past few days, but this evening the island was full of puffins :) We headed out onto Faxaflói and soon found some Minke whales in a similar area as the past fe

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    Tour at 17:00

    Another very nice tour out at sea: the wind slowed down a lot and we had great sightings: more than 3 minke whales,  one humpback whale with a group of white-beaked dolphins and another humpback whale!

     

    Tour at 13:00

    The sea is still rough, but sunny. Fe

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    Tour at 17:00

    An interesting tour for this late afternoon: minke whales still numerous out in Faxafloi, a couple of white-beaked dolphins has been spotted and even a jumping minke whale jumped al least 3 times making visible spashes at the surface!

     

    Tour at 13:00

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    Tour at 17:00

    Again, the weather was rough, but a few brave passengers joined us for the evening trip. We went back to the Minke whale feeding grounds the same as this morning and this afternoon. There were several Minke whales which we were able to observe very close to the boat, and eve

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    Tour at 17:00

    A lot of brave people joined us on this tour. Like in the afternoon it was it worth. We had many many minke whales around all the time, but I don't know if the passangers had a possibility to picture them because the sea was so rough that one needed to hold itself with both

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    Tour at 17:00

    Again we had lots of Minke whales as well as two groups of white-beaked dolphins. The dolphins weren't as playful in the morning, but we had an interesting encounter with a feeding Minke whale, coming up to the surface within a huge group of feeding birds.

     

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    Tour at 17:00

    Still minke whales out there and we had also a sighitng of a jumping humpback whale!

     

    Tour at 13.00

    It was a little bit rougher than in the morning, but it was a beautiful sunny day! The minke whales were still out there, more than 10 individuals surfaci

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    Tour at 17:00

    The sea conditions were still prerfect to post whales: more than 4 minke whales and one was even breaching several times and even in belly up!

     

    Tour at 13:00

    Even more spectuacular was the 13.00 tour today: we ended up in an area where we were surrounded

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    Tour at 17:00

    Again, a similar trip to the previous two. We spotted the Humpback whale again, along with dozens of Minke whales all around us. This time we were even more lucky... the Humpback whale breached 4 times in a row!! The first time most of us missed it, but the next three times

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    Tour at 17:30

    We went out on a privat whale watching tour on Elding II with a group from France. It was truly a perfect tour! We spotted many Minke whales, a couple of them very close to the boat, and some cute Harbour porpoises. We were enjoying the sightings when we got a call from the

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    Tour at 17:00

    The sea was still extremly calm and the whales were many out there. In fact, we had more than 4 minke whales, 2 of which came pretty close, a couple of white-beaked dolphins and harbour porpoises on our way back.

     

    Tour at 13:00

    It got more windy than in

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    Tour at 17:00

    Two pods of white-beaked dolphins has been spotted: some individuals were folowing us swimming along the side of the boat. More than 10 minke whales all around us.

     

    Tour at 13:00

    Still the same perfect sea and wether conditions for this early aftrnoon tr

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    Tour at 17:00

    A nice late evening tour: the birds life is alsways great at 17.00, when all birds are gathering in lage flocks. The minke whales has been spotted mainly close to those flocks of feeding birds, at least 3 and we had as well a sighting of an humpback whale, which came very cl

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    Tour at 17:00

    We headed again to the same area as we were in on the earlier trips today. We found about 5 Minke whales and were able to observe one of them very closely. There were still thousands of birds feeding in the area. Obviously a lot of food for the birds and whales here these da

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    Tour at 17:00

    We began by stopping at puffin island Akurey to look at the birds. We didn't have to sail out very far before we spotted a Minke whale, but we saw a big blow in the distance and decided to have a look at this animal. It turned out to be two Humpback whales! They stayed with