Boat tour
Drangey Island Puffin & Seabird Tour (Drangey Tours, Skagafjörður)
Outside, 2.4 km from Miklavatnby Drangey Tours
Four-hour family-run boat trip from Sauðárkrókur marina to the sheer island of Drangey, then a guided climb up a cliff path where puffins sit metres from the trail. Guillemots, gannets, kittiwakes and fulmars nest on the cliffs, and gyrfalcon is sometimes seen.
Details
- No feeding
- No baiting
- No captive animals
- Led by
- Viggó Jónsson and Helgi Rafn
- Route
- Starts and ends in Sauðárkrókur
- Visits
- Drangey
- Length
- 1 day
- Language
- English
Species
Months
- January, closed
- February, closed
- March, closed
- April, closed
- May, closed
- June, open
- July, open
- August, open
- September, closed
- October, closed
- November, closed
- December, closed
Jun, Jul, Aug
Light and conditions
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Light through the year
Golden hour is when the sun is low, between the horizon and 6° above it: soft, warm light. Times are for the 15th of each month, in Reykjavik time (with summer time where it applies). In-season months are marked.
| Month | Golden hour | Daylight | Sun at noon | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning golden hour | Evening golden hour | |||
| Jan | Low sun all day: 11:23–15:34 | 4h 42m4 h 42 min | 3° | |
| Feb | 09:32– | 16:17– | 8h 22m8 h 22 min | 12° |
| Mar | 07:46– | 18:11– | 11h 41m11 h 41 min | 22° |
| Apr | 05:49– | 19:49– | 15h 20m15 h 20 min | 34° |
| May | 03:58– | 21:14– | 19h 5m19 h 5 min | 43° |
| JunIn season | 02:27– | 22:11– | 23h 17m23 h 17 min | 48° |
| JulIn season | 03:20– | 21:51– | 20h 45m20 h 45 min | 46° |
| AugIn season | 05:08– | 20:29– | 16h 47m16 h 47 min | 38° |
| Sep | 06:47– | 18:40– | 13h 8m13 h 8 min | 27° |
| Oct | 08:23– | 16:38– | 9h 40m9 h 40 min | 16° |
| Nov | Low sun all day: 10:15–15:50 | 5h 59m5 h 59 min | 6° | |
| Dec | Low sun all day: 12:05–14:23 | 3h 9m3 h 9 min | 1° | |