Gentle Giants Whale Watching

To sum up, May has been a really successful month: We spotted loads of humpback whales within the past weeks – for many days we counted about 15 to 20 individuals on the tours. Many of them have been seen feeding, breaking the surface with a mouth filled up with food. Others have been acting very acrobatic: Breaching, lobtailing, flipper slapping and spyhopping could be observed again and again. Above that, the blue whales have arrived and were sighted on several trips duri

The last snow has not disappeared completely and also summer is slow in coming. In contrast, our bay is getting full of life at the same time. Some weeks ago the beautiful puffins returned to their island in Skjálfandi bay and also many other seabirds have been spotted during our whale watching tours. Now in May, more and more humpback whales reached their feeding grounds situated in this bay. First one by one seemed to enter the bay, but during the past days several new individua