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Our Puffin Watching captain, Saevar, was in Frettablaðið last Saturday, which is the biggest newspaper in Iceland. The paper heard about the colorful Skúlaskeið, our Puffin Watching boat, so they came over for a visit.

The headline read: Skúlaskeið, the gayest looking boat by the harbour!

Have you ever dreamed of seeing whales swimming in the ocean or the colourful puffin flying around you? Then take a stroll down to the Reykjavik harbor and buy a ticket to one of Puffin Express’ tours.

Whale Watching
Puffin Express offers both puffin watching tours and whale watching tours from Reykjavik’s old harbour. In the whale watching tours you’ll see the whales in their natural environment, quite up close and personal. The friendly guides will point out where to spot the whales on the surface of the sea and give you interesting information about the different kinds of whales you can expect to see.

The whales are not so shy, so they quite often surface quite close to the boat. When Icelandic Times joined Puffin Express’ whale watching tour we saw minke whales several times on different locations and once one of the minke whales went so high up it was almost like it was “jumping” out of the sea.

The whale watching tours only take 2-2,5 hours. They are shorter than most other whale watching tours because Rósin, the main whale watching boat of Puffin Express, is quite a fast cruiser. The boat was designed specially for the company and equipped with all necessities. It has a heated accommodation and comfortable seats for up to 70 people. It can get quite cold on the sea and on the way out and back you can sit down in the heat downstairs with some warm coffee in your hands, which comes free of charge.

Puffin Watching
The small islands outside Reykjavik are great for puffin watching with thousands of puffins nesting there every summer. Puffin Express offers tours especially designed for seeing the puffins. The boat takes you quite close to one of the puffin islands where you take a break and you can observe the colorful bird-life, both puffins on the island or sitting on the sea. This tour takes only one hour, you sail to the island and around it with several breaks in between. On the Puffin Express tours you can also see all kinds of sea birds. 

The so-called Verslunarmannahelgi or Banking Holiday Weekend ended yesterday (it was Friday to Monday).

We had incredible fun here at the Reykjavik Old Harbour and what was different this weekend was that so many Icelanders came on our whale watching tours, enjoying their holiday, which was great fun!

We saw many minky whales and dolphins and there were thousands of puffins in the puffin islands as well! We also went on three different sea angling tours because we had so many requests. This is life :)

Thank you all for coming and enjoying this holiday weekend with us!!

We are enjoying a beautiful sunny day here at Old Reykjavik Harbour. It is an ideal day for whale watching and people are streaming in to get a chance to look at whales in their natural environment.We stop by the Puffin islands in our whale watching tours and according to our puffin watching guides there are so many puffins out there today, it is surreal!

Don´t get left out, come and enjoy the smooth and safe whale watching ride of a lifetime with Puffin Express!

In our Puffin Watching tour this morning at 10 o'clock we saw a lot of Gannets in flying around and diving up to 30 metres down in the ocean for food with a speed of 100 kilotres per hour! Gannets are the largest sea birds in the North Atlantic with a wingspan up to 2 metres. What a sight!

As always we also saw a large amount of our good friends the Puffins! The Gannets were only extra entertainment to our tour :)

Please come join us at Reykjavik's Old Harbour which has been full of life today with many people going on our whale watching tours, our sea angling tours and of course to our famour puffin tours!

Puffin Express

This morning at our Puffin Express tour we saw thousands and thousands of Puffins sitting and relaxing on the sea as well as on Akurey Island. We also saw a couple of thousand of Puffins flying around us. Incredible!

We have very good weather conditions for the Puffins to fly with light wind but because the wind is eastward bound, the sea is still smooth and comfortable for sailing.

Please join us in our next tour!

Puffin Express.