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After we had already walked around half of Iceland, we stayed one day in Akureyri, the second largest city in Iceland with 18,000 inhabitants. On the agenda was a small trip to Husavik, the whale capital of the north. Here one has the best chances whales to sifting and we were told that the last days were again sighted blue whales. :-O
Accordingly, the anticipation of the tour was great, because how often do you have the opportunity to see the world’s largest mammal? If also with 80 € not really cheap (but still around worlds cheaper than anywhere else in the world, where we had tried so far), we took this tour on a medium sized cutter out into a small fjord in the Arctic Ocean. Mike and Tobi actually had to go there before swimming, but after they had determined the temperature of about 1 ° C, this idea died for now…
But back to the whale hunting: We caked with the cutter through the fjord and became seasick (at least to Tobi) until the tour guide was a “whale at 10 o’clock”. And off went hunting. You have to imagine this as follows: The whale dives 2-3 times, followed by a “water catch” for a whale typical water fountain, then you see the back and when diving the tail fin. Afterwards is for several minutes rest and it is again after a “Splash” look out. Pretty funny and once we came to the whale actually close enough to the size of the blue whale to be able to imagine.
After 3 hours on the sea we went back to Akureyri, where the weather was good. After we even had a clear, almost cloudless night, we set off after the darkness and at midnight we were finally able to observe the spectacle of the northern lights. Although the lights were relatively weak and we could only guess the green color, but in the photos it looks the better for it 🙂