Bring Your Biggest Lens :-)

In all our trips to Ingólfshöfði we spend some time watching and photographing the birds. However, some people come with very advanced and heavy camera equipment and need more time to work with their gear. Therefore we offer special departures for photographers at 6:15 AM on select mornings from mid June until early August.

The maximum number of clients on each trip is 10 persons. We concentrate on bird photography on this trip, so we don´t spend any time on history and normal sightseeing like on our Ingólfshöfði Puffin Tour.

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To get to Ingólfshöfði we cross 6 km of waters, marshes and sands in a tractor-drawn hay cart. The drive takes about 30 minutes each way, so we spend about 2 hours hiking around the cape. The circle we hike around the nature reserve is about 2 km long. In the beginning we need to walk up a steep sand slope, and then through rocky terrain, but then it gets more easy, mostly hiking on flat grass land. We don't recommend that people participate in this trip unless they can do this hike.

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Please note: in our trips to Ingólfshöfði we are careful not to disturb the birds for too long time, and to make sure that the birds can continue to tend to their chicks or eggs, we never spend long time close to their nests. It is easy to forget the time when you are making beautiful photographs, so we ask for good cooperation of every client we take to Ingólfshöfði Nature Reserve. The rule we use is that all the photographers stay in view of the guide the whole time, and when we ask the group to move from one side of the cape to the other, every one comes with us.

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The best time for puffin photography tours is after the puffins start to bring fish home to their burrows. Chicks start to come out of egg in early June, and the puffin activity increases more and more into July and is normally pretty good until early August when the parents have the chick big enough to leave for the sea and therefore do not need to bring fish home anymore. Normally it takes the parents about 6 weeks to bring enough fish.

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We might open up couple of earlier departures before mid June, and they might even be in the evening, because the 6:15 departure time works best after the parent puffins have started to bring fish to the burrow around mid June. However, in May and early June the departure time at 19:45 is much more likely to give good results of puffins being up and about outside their burrow area on the grassy cliff edges. But do not expect any fish bringing puffins then.