The sea conditions today were perfect. The water surface remained like a mirror throughout the day with almost zero wind and clear sunny skies. In total today we saw 4 different species of Cetacean: Short-beaked common dolphin, Humpback Whale, Minke Whale and Harbour Porpoise. Not a bad hall. Our rarely seen dolphin species was once again spotted just in front of Akureyri harbour in the morning and interestingly not seen again in the afternoon; this is in line with our sightings of this dolphin from previous days. Its presence is still a little bit of a mystery to us, but, it certa ..read more

For the second day in a row, we started our tours on a completely glassy, sunny and windless morning on our lovely Eyjafjörður. During our morning tour, we encountered Magnea, our celebrity Humpback whale, just North of Svalbarðseyri calmly swimming around us showing a high fluke. But around us, we also saw all kinds of bird life! Countless Long-tailed Ducks, Northern Fulmars, Great Northern Divers, Goose flying across the Fjörð and of course our lovely Black-headed gulls. During our afternoon tour, we spotted again Magnea, but that was not it because we were also lucky enough to spot ..read more

We started our tours on a completely glassy, sunny and windless morning on our lovely Eyjafjörður. Our first sighting was the very rare Short-beaked common dolphin (you can clearly see the hourglass shape on its side). Just North of Akureyri harbour. Next we found Magnea our celebrity Humpback whale, just North of Svalbarðseyri calmly swimming around us showing a high fluke. But that was not it, because by Strítan we found two more whales! One Humpback whale and one Minke whale. All together with several Harbour porpoises along the way. Text & Photos: Gisela & Mac Departure ..read more

The weather today made manoeuvring fairly tricky as a strong Western wind was creating large waves before switching directions to the South. We did, however, have comparatively warm air temperature and clear sunny skies. We first saw a Humpback Whale by Svalbarðseyri. This whale was diving and returning to almost the same spot every time for roughly 6 minutes. Because of this, we managed to see the whale fairly close to the back of the boat without having to move which was very favourable considering the sea conditions. a second whale looked to be spotted right in the distance back towa ..read more

We sailed out with southern wind and swell in our fjord today, but with higher temperatures, so it finally was not as cold anymore. During our tours, we spotted a total of three different Humpback Whales! The first two whales were encountered by Svalbarðseyri and the third Humpback was seen south of the green buoy! It was a very exciting day in Eyjafjörður. During our afternoon RIB tour, we saw tail slapping and overall had beautiful and close up encounters with the whales on our tours! On the way back, we even saw one seal jumping out of the water! What a great day! Text & Picture ..read more

We had a beautiful day with great conditions! We went out in the afternoon with one group. The wind from the south brought good weather and warmer temperatures, and barely made waves in the fjord. We first saw the harbor porpoise we exiting Akureyri, and quickly saw 2 more humpback whales a few hundred meters away. They came close to us a few times, then separated. It seems like one of the whales started falling asleep since it was having quite an erratic comportment. We then sailed with the other whale for a while and got amazing encounters until we started heading up north to check ..read more

We had a moderate Northern wind in the fjord today and fairly low visibility with snowy conditions. Our first encounter was with a Humpback Whale just North of Akureyri. This was Magnea and it was surfacing in almost the same spot each time. The dives were also just for a few minutes which meant we were able to see the whale very close largely without moving. A second Humpback was found a little further north, just North of Svalbarðseyri. This was Ind 20, diving slightly longer than Magnea and with longer inter-breath intervals. On our midday tour, we encountered Magena again but this ..read more

Today in our lovely Eyjafjörður we had the most ideal conditions for spotting. With a cloudy sky yet windless and waveless fjörd ahead of us. Just north of Akureyri, in between the Hotwater waterfall and Svalbarðseyri, we encountered Two Humpback Whales. One of them was our dark fluke frequent visitor for the past couple of weeks but the 2nd one was an individual with a black a white fluke. Both whales we perfectly synchronised diving for just a few minutes, while one was deep diving the 2nd one would surface so we had a constant sight of whales. A little further north, roughly around t ..read more

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

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