Location: Olafsvik
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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 Whole Day with Orcas – 2/3/24
I went on a tour called Orcas and Aurora in Iceland. On the third day, we had some free time. I scheduled a whale watching tour for the free time. Our hotel was an hour away from the city that the whale watching company was in. In the part of Iceland I was in, there…
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Three Species of Cetacean – 29/5/22
On a pretty rare calm and sunny day out in our huge fjord off west Iceland we encountered three species of cetacean. Firstly out in the deep water of the fjord we found one of the male sperm whales that hangs out in this area at this time of year. We see a lot of…