ÖRÆFAFERÐIR - From Coast To Mountains

07/11/2024

Ice cave yesterday

04/11/2024

I was doing a nice Ice Tour on Saturday with mother/daughter team from Brazil. The glacier is now in the transition phase between season, and is getting more and more blue by the day.

24/10/2024

I did a little scouting trip on Falljökull this morning. Always amazing landscape up there. I start my glacier trips on 1st of November and will offer them until end of March.

21/10/2024

Gamli góði 2006 Land Rover Defenderinn minn er kominn á sölu, enda er nýji flotti 2016 Defenderinn kominn á 38 tommu dekk með beadlock felgum😀

Land Rover Defender | 6/2006 | Akstur 216.000 km. | Verð kr. 4.990.000

10/10/2024

Northern lights tonight

10/10/2024

Amazing northern lights tonight 😀

08/10/2024

Today I was doing Helicopter Ice Cave Tour scouting to see what kind of ice caves we can get to in November-March period of this winter :-)

28/09/2024

Found some nice ice caves to use for my ice cave tours starting in November and lasting until around 20th og March. Winter is coming😀

28/09/2024

Now is the time of year that I start looking for ice caves for my tours in November to late March 😀

25/09/2024

Kveðjurúnturinn á gamla Land Land Rover Defender. Við fjölskyldan erum búin að vera í 8 daga ferð umhverfis Ísland, einhverja 2500 kílómetra. Ég var að frétta í dag að (nýji) nýskráður 2016 árgerð Land Rover Defender bíll sem ég fékk SS Gíslason í Mosfellsbæ til að breyta í sambærilegan bíl við þennan gamla sem er 2006 árgerð, verði tilbúinn í lok vikunnar. Þannig að í næstu viku verður rúntað í bæinn, þessi gamli góði skilinn eftir á bílasölu, og nýji gæðingurinn keyrður heim í sveitina😀
Myndin er tekin á Öxi í dag.

12/09/2024

I did one last tour to Ingolfshofdi this morning, with a group from Backroads. Great weather. The second picture shows the ship wreck of Marconi from Hull in England that stranded on my beach Stúfur on 6th of March 1909.

28/08/2024

Well, this great puffin summer has come to an end this year, we spotted the last puffins in the evening tour on 20th of August. The summer was one of the best for the 30 years Einar Rúnar Sigurðsson has been involved in the tour, there seems to be a lot of young puffins preparing to make their home in Ingólfshöfði, with resulted in several weeks in the period mid June until end of first week of August where we had lots of puffins sitting around on the edges of the cliffs in every departure, not few good days, few bad days, like we normally have through the years. We had this also in summer 2023, but for longer period now in 2024.
Next summer we will be offering daily trips from 12th of May, but for the first week only at 19:45, because around mid May the evening is the best chance to have puffins sitting around, in the day time they are quite busy staying in the burrow (out of sight then) keeping the egg warm, and going to the sea for their own lunch, but it often seems the evening they take a little social time together on the edges of the cliffs. So 19:45 departure are offered in May 2025. In the latter part of May we will also offer the 10:15 departure. Then in June until early August 10:15 and 13:30 and then for the last week we offer the tour close to mid August, we go back to evening departures only, again to have the best chance to have puffins close to us on the tour.
The photo is from a evening visit to Ingólfshöfði several years ago😀
https://www.fromcoasttomountains.com/ingolfshofdi-puffin-tour

23/08/2024

We guided a trip with Overland Travel to Ingolfshofdi last night. Their clients drive their trucks following our car. We hiked around the cape, studied the history and landscape and then we went down to the beach Kóngsvík west of the cape. We had a pair of humpback whales fishing in the surf really close to us😀

22/08/2024

I did a trip to Ingólfshöfði this morning and can verify that the puffins are gone. But the humpback whale is not gone 😀

20/08/2024

Very last open departure of Ingólfshöfði Puffin Tour was tonight at 19:45. Lovely weather and very nice clients. 2-3 puffins in the cliffs and some on the sea. Spotted a whale and the night was magical 😀

20/08/2024