Today is World Whale Day, and things look a bit different this year than they have in the past. Instead of being out at sea on one of our Whale Watching Tours, we are celebrating all of the magnificent cetaceans from our office in downtown Reykjavík. World Whale Day is a chance to celebrate and […]

If you have been on one of our whale watching tours from Reykjavík, on board of Andrea you know that we emphasize on education during the tour. There is for example a small onboard museum in the bow. This is where we sometimes display our plankton sample. We take the sample, with our plankton net, […]

Life of the minke whale in Iceland has changed dramatically in recent years. Faxa bay, our whale watching site, became partly a whale sanctuary in 2017. Therefore, hardly any minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) were hunted in the following seasons. Finally, since the abundance of minke whales in the Icelandic continental shelf decreased by almost 23 […]