The Northern Lights by Boat tour for tonight has been cancelled due to weather so we have come up with a backup plan for you! Tonight we are offering a Northern Lights themed visit to the Whales of Iceland Exhibition with a chance to re-book your Northern Lights by Boat tour for another night for FREE! See […]

Blog coming soon! WHALE WATCHING  13:00  Tour Status: ON Sightings: YES – Humpback whale.

Our tour is confirmed to sail at 21:00 tonight, and conditions look good! For more information please contact our reception team at info@specialtours.is or at +354-560-8800. You can also contact us to book the tour, or book directly through our website. See you soon! Tour Status: ON Sightings: TBD

Andrea departed from Reykjavik Old Harbour for a whale watching themed cruise in the Icelandic waters of Faxafloi. After leaving the dock we headed into Kollafjörður, hoping to find a Humpback Whale that had been spotted there the previous day. We circled Viðey island and monitored flocks of seabirds feeding in the area. Then we […]

This evening the weather forecast was finally again on cloudless sky. Excited we sailed out with our Andrea into Kollafjörður. Already on our way towards Esja and out of the light pollution we saw the first faint activity. As we arrived in our final position the lights were getting stronger. During the entire tour we […]

We took Andrea for our whale watching tour today and sailed through Kollafjörður. The weather was fabulous, everything was covered by a thin layer of snow. Close to the shore of Esja we spotted a humpback whale! The encounter started with us witnessing the whales feeding behavior and we got a great view into its […]

The Northern Lights by Boat tour for tonight has been cancelled due to weather so we have come up with a backup plan for you! Tonight we are offering a Northern Lights themed visit to the Whales of Iceland Exhibition with a chance to re-book your Northern Lights by Boat tour for another night for FREE! See […]

We took Andrea for our whale watching tour today and sailed through Kollafjörður, which was a perfect decision. Since there we successfully found an amazing humpback whale! It was swimming side by side with us. During the encounter the beautiful individual gave us quite a show. We could witness its feeding behaviour and got a […]

The blog coming soon… Tour Status: ON Sightings: No – Passengers were invited to come for a free second try

Andrea departed from Reykjavik Old Harbour for a whale watching themed cruise in the Icelandic waters of Faxafloi. After leaving the dock we headed into Kollafjörður, hoping to find a Humpback Whale that had been spotted there the previous days. We circled Viðey while monitoring a flocks of seabirds. Then we kept on searching for […]