Elding Whale Watching Akureyri
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Whale Watching Akureyri offers whale watching tours in comfortable sightseeing ships and custom made small RIB boats. We represent Elding and Whale Safari. Experience The Eyjafjord Humpbacks! Whale Watching from Akureyri in North Iceland. Follow our blogs to get updates on latest whale watching tours.
Elding Whale Watching Akureyri
22h ago
We had great weather today, a minor northern wind and clear open skies made for ideal spotting conditions.
Our first encounter was with a Humpback Whale just north of Akureyri. This was our dark fluke individual Magnea. The whale was moving around quite a lot across the width of the fjord and diving for just a few minutes. A little further north, roughly around the green buoy, we found our second Humpback Whale. This whale stayed in mostly the same spot and exhibited many very high flukes, flicking back the tail on each dive.
Our afternoon tours were spent with the second whale by the ..read more
Elding Whale Watching Akureyri
2d ago
The weather fluctuated greatly today, with rapidly changing visibility from snow and a strong northern wind. This, together with a large Northern swell, ultimately pushed us toward the decision to cancel our afternoon and Rib tours.
We sailed north of Svalbarðseyri, roughly in line with the green buoy. Here we encountered a Humpback Whale several times. We had a mixture of distance to the whale, on one occasion surfacing very close to us, but we were greatly hampered by the sea conditions. On our return journey, however, we were treated to some great encounters with 2 more Humpbacks. These ..read more
Elding Whale Watching Akureyri
3d ago
This was a perfect day, with a glassy ocean and a lot of sightings. There was no wind and a lot of sun. We encountered harbor porpoises, as well as a diversity of birds, but the best part was meeting two humpback whales very close to Akureyri (around Svalbarðseyri) .
Both whales were coming up frequently, and we were able to see them well. We even saw these two whales coming up at the same time, and they were only meters away from each other, the photographers on boards were in paradise!
The sun was warming us up and it was great to hang out on the boat surrounded by the cetaceans ..read more
Elding Whale Watching Akureyri
4d ago
Today we had incredible conditions! Flat sea, hardly any wind and even sunshine in the afternoon.
During our tours, we encountered plenty of birds in the fjord as well as a few pods of Harbor Porpoises.
We also spotted three different Humpback Whales between Akureyri and Svalbarðseyri! This was very exciting. During the morning tour, we encountered two of them and then we saw all three during the afternoon tour. We saw one of them feed and all of them resurfaced very frequently, a number of times right by our boat!
We had an absolutely beautiful day and are very excited to sail out ag ..read more
Elding Whale Watching Akureyri
6d ago
Great day on the water in Eyjafjörður! We had hardly any wind and beautiful sailing conditions with a bit of snow throughout the day.
On our tours, we spotted plenty of Harbor Porpoises and two Humpback Whales, all of them were north of Svalbarðseyri!
We had amazing encounters, we first spotted one Humpback Whale and while waiting for it, we spotted another blow a bit further north of us. The second Humpback was heading south quickly and we saw both of them very well. One of them surfaced right in front of our RIB boat, leaving everyone on board very excited about seeing the whale t ..read more
Elding Whale Watching Akureyri
1w ago
Today we had a moderate Eastern wind making the fjord surface quite choppy in patches with less protection from the mountains. The skies started off with around 50% cloud cover, however, this decreased to less than 10% by the end of the day.
On our morning tour we sailed out to East of the Green Buoy where we saw 3 Humpback Whales. From our fish finder data we could see very large patches of fish near the bottom of the fjord and this is presumably what the whales were here for. One of the whales, Camel, swam north fairly quickjly and by the time the rib arrived it was no longer sighted ..read more
Elding Whale Watching Akureyri
1w ago
The weather started today fairly flat but a strong Eastern wind meant the waves picked up quite considerably throughout the day.
On our morning tour we observed a Humpback Whale, very close to the harbour, seen swimming right next to the hot water fall Heiti Foss. This was Magnea and it was doing several standard low fluke dives, staying in a fairly similar spot. On one occasion the whale surfaced right in front of the bow of our boat and then proceeded to exhibit some resting or sleeping behaviours. On our afternoon tours we once again saw this whale and an additional Humpback located in ..read more
Elding Whale Watching Akureyri
1w ago
The weather this morning turned out to be quite tricky for spotting because of the water colour despite the very flat water surface, minimal wind and patchy blue skies. The weather in the afternoon did worsen into the afternoon as a strong Eastern wind started to increase as the storm we are set to encounter tomorrow rolls in.
On our morning tour we sailed to Grenivik where we encountered the new Humpback Whale first seen yesterday. This whale was showing mixed high fluke and low flukes dives and on several occasions we saw the whale close to our boat. On our return journey we encoun ..read more