South Pacific Humpback Whales – Brisbane 2018

Here it is finally 🙂 The post about all my whale adventures this year. Granted they weren't quite what I had planned/hoped/expected for 2018 but nevertheless I had some great times out on the water. I ended up volunteering with my friends research group and going out on the water in Moreton Bay or from …

Humpback Whale Identification

Since I started this blog a bit over a year ago there have been quite a few posts about the humpback whales that we see here in Eyjafjördur. But today I realised that I never actually wrote about how you can recognize different humpback whales. Humpback whales are fantastic because it is possible to recognize …

Blue whale in Eyjafjördur

Yes you read that right, we actually saw a blue whale in the fjord last night. How crazy is that, I can still not believe that that actually happened! So just for anyone who doesn't know it, blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are actually the biggest animals on Earth. They can grow to be up to …

Whales and Birds

I have been working a lot this last week and whales is really almost all that's been on my mind. We had some of the best tours this season over the weekend and thankfully I had my camera with me on all of them. So yes I will start with some more humpback whale fotos …

Welcome back whales

I am so so happy that there are already a few whales in the fjord. Last year I arrived about three weeks later and it was a bit complicated at the beginning to find the whales. But now we have already seen 5 different humpback whales and one a couple of days even two minke …

Whales at 10,12,2,6….

....oh and also a bit further away at 9 and 3!!! If you've ever been on a whale watch or dolphin watch before you might have heard something like this before. Most companies use the clock system to tell their visitors in which direction they should look to see the animals. Well we do the …

Whales on my mind

Today I used my day of to be productive but in a more fun productive way then yesterday (which I spend mostly writing job applications). You can see though where I still get my main inspiration from at the moment :D. Since I only have a small postcard sized paper block with me all of …

Sunset Breaching

The last few days have been really busy, I've been working a lot from Friday to Monday and even though that meant less sleep it also meant a lot of great tours with awesome sightings of Humpback whales, a Minke whale and quite a few Harbour porpoises. The highlight was probably saturday evening when we …

Whale Update

Its been a while since I last wrote anything about my work, mostly due to the fact that the last days have been quite crazy. July is the busiest month so far and we have been a lot of big groups from cruise ships coming out with us, so there's quite a few evenings when …

Days with Whales

As I mentioned in one of my previous posts we are finally getting more and more whales coming into the fjord. Its absolutely amazing and I am having so much fun every time that I'm working. This last week in particular had quite a few good trips, ranging from whales feeding close to the surfaces …