Our puffin season is here! Come and join us for a tour to see these wonderul little birds that nest on a local island. The puffin tours leave Grundarfjörður Harbour at 2pm and 8pm daily (weather permitting). Please book online or contact our office for bookings and more information. We can get closer to the island here in Grundarfjörður than other puffin tours around Iceland, due to the deep water around the island. All photos here were taken on one of our puffin tours. Come and join us!
Come and join us for a tour to see these wonderul little birds that nest on a local island. The puffin tours leave Grundarfjörður Harbour at 2pm and 8pm daily (weather permitting). Please book online or contact our office for bookings and more information. We can get closer to the island here in Grundarfjörður than other puffin tours around Iceland, due to the deep water around the island. All photos here were taken on one of our puffin tours. Come and join us! 
Today we have one tour at 11:00 and we are fully booked. We have added a tour tomorrow at 9:00 since we are having a great weather and full tours almost every tour. Make sure you get your ticket on our webpage www.lakitours.com
We are getting regular orca sightings at the moment here in west Iceland and yesterday’s trip was a particularly special one, with the orcas in a sociable mood. This is certainly not something we see very often. It is a good time to come and join us for a tour as early summer is usually a very reliable time for seeing the orcas, but of course, this is nature and there are no guarantees. Today’s tour is cancelled due to weather but we hope to be back out tomorrow. #iceland #westiceland #orcas#blackfish #killerwhales #spyhop #nature #lakitours#whalewatching
We at Laki Tours are very excited to be starting a new whale watching in Hólmavík in the Westfjords.
Láki Tours has been running whale watching tours, as well as bird watching and sea angling trips from the Snaefellsnes Peninsula.
Now we want to offer guests who are visiting the Westfjords the opportunity to enjoy tours with us in another beautiful and remote part of Iceland. We know that there are a lot of humpback whales around Hólmavík in the summer. Humpbacks are the favourite species for many whale watchers around the world, as they are the most playful, acrobatic and curious of all whales. Other species we can expect to see are Minke whales and white-beaked dolphins. Occasional visitors are blue whales, orcas, pilot whales and possibly even sperm whales. It is very exciting to start whale watching in a new area, to discover what is out there in this beautiful, remote part of Iceland, and you can be one of our first passengers!
Our main captain is a local to Hólmavík. He knows the area and the waters around and knows the best areas to look for whales. Our guide on the whale watch we are starting in Hólmavík is our most experienced guide, Judith Scott. She has worked on whale watches around the world, working with humpback whales in other areas, as well as many other species. We at Láki Tours are proud of our responsible whale watching, following Ice Whale guidelines. We are also working with whale research and conservation organizations. Come and join us for this new and very exciting venture, in a remote, but beautiful and unspoilt part of Iceland, with the most acrobatic species of whale!
Tours will start 15 June 2017!
Við hjá Láka Tours erum mjög stolt að hefja hvalaskoðun frá Hólmavík á Ströndum.
Við munum byrja ferðir 15 júni 2017 og sigla fram til endaðan ágúst þetta fyrsta sumar.
Láki Tours hefur boðið uppá bátsferðir frá Snæfellsnesi, bæði hvalaskoðun, lundaskoðun og sjóstöng, og nú viljum við bjóða gestum sem fara um Vestfirði og Strandir upp á tækifæri til að njóta ferða með okkur í stórbrotinni náttúru Steingrímsfjarðar.
Steingrímsfjörður er þekktur fyrir mikið hvala- og fuglalíf og mikla nátturufegurð. Mikið er af Hnúfubak rétt fyrir utan og nálægt Hólmavík á sumrin. Hnúfubakur er einn af vinsælustu hvölum sem ferðamaðurinn sækist eftir að sjá í heiminum. Aðrar tegundir er þó einnig að finna þar, svo sem Hrefnu og Höfrunga. En einstaka sinnum bregður fyrir Háhyrning, Búrhval, Grindhval og jafnvel Steypireyð!
Það er því mjög spennandi að byrja hvalaskoðun frá Hólmavík, í nýju umhverfi, upplifa og kanna hvað er að finna á þessum fallega stað.
Skipstjórinn er heimamaður, Már Ólafsson. Hólmvíkingur sem þekkir svæðið vel og veit því best hvar er helst að finna hvalina. Okkar reyndasti hvalaleiðsögumaður, Judith Scott, mun einnig vera um borð, en hún hefur unnið um allan heim með Hnúfubökum sem og öðrum hvölum.
Við hjá Láka Tours bjóðum uppá ábyrga hvalaskoðun og fylgjum leiðbeiningum frá Icewhale sem og vinnum með hvala rannsóknar og nátturuverndar samtökum. Markmið okkar er að njóta náttúru og dýralífs án þess að skaða umhverfið og veita með því gestum okkar sem bestu upplifun og góðar minningar.
Við hlökkum til að vinna með Strandamönnum og Vestfirðingum og vonumst eftir góðu og farsælu samstarfi.
Hvalaskoðun í kyrrðinni á Vestfjörðum er engri lík. Steingrímsfjörðurinn iðar ekki bara af lífi heldur er hann einstaklega veðursæll og því afar notalegt að sigla hann. Tilvalin ferð fyrir fjölskyldur eða þá sem eiga það til að verða sjóveikir.
Lengd: ca. 2 klst
Tímabil: 1. júlí – 15. september
Unfortunately we have to cancel our tours today May 10th.
Also tomorrow May 11th and Friday May 12th.
We hope the weather will be better on Saturday.
We will take part in the Nordic Beach Cleanup today and you can join us! Meet us at 4pm at the blue Láki Tours bus at the harbour in Ólafsvík to help us clean one of the nearby beaches. Refreshments and equipment will be provided. We hope to see you there!!
An international orca naming contest will start on the 4th of May on the Orca Guardians Iceland FB page. Stay tuned!
The West Iceland orca ID catalogue has just been published! Soon we will have the printed version on our boats!
http://orcaguardians.org/orca-id-catalogue/
