Judith
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An Encounter with an Entangled Humpback – 4/9/24
Judith I was working on our whale watch boat in Holmavik, I work for Laki tours in Iceland. We have two different places we whale watch. One of them is Steingrímsfjörður peninsula, but the other is Holmavik, which is mostly humpbacks up in the West Fjords, and it’s a fairly remote place, and we’re the…
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Breaches from Dash-Dot – 20/6/24
Our season in the Westfjords, Iceland has started wonderfully, with five or six humpbacks hanging around very close to town feeding. They are probably feeding on krill here at this time of year, but it could also be small fish such as sand eels also. One of the whales, known here as Dash-Dot (also known…
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A Rare Calm Day – 11/6/24
A rare calm day spent in the company of playful Icelandic orcas. Orca sightings this season have been somewhat more sporadic than some seasons here off west Iceland as we seem to have less herring around than some seasons. Herring is their main food. But we still manage to find some orcas regularly and as…
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A Unique Encounter with Dolphins and Humpbacks – 14/9/23
At a time of year from Holmavik, Westfjords, Iceland where we mostly see larger humpbacks deep-feeding, we had an unusual tour today. With beautiful weather and light we could see whales blowing from the harbour. But when we got out there we struggled to find them and those we saw were taking very long dives,…
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Christmas Eve Orcas! – 24/12/22
As we were travelling out of the Weddell Sea, somewhere the Antarctic Expedition ships do not visit as regularly as the west side of the peninsula, due to sea ice, we had a wonderful encounter with type A orcas, my first of this ecotype. These orcas are apparently found around the tip of the peninsula…