Puffins at Cape Ingolfshofdi - Bird Watching

To get to Ingólfshöfði we cross 6 km of waters, marshes and sands in a tractor-drawn hay cart. The drive takes about 25 minutes each way, and then we spend about 1.5 hours hiking and bird watching around the cape. The circle we hike around the nature reserve is 2-3 km long.

In the beginning we need to walk up a steep sand slope, but then it gets easier, mostly hiking on flat grass land and we make many stops along the way.

The trip is taken by a certified guide, and member of the family living on the farm Hofsnes. They take pride in transporting visitor across the waters and sands that cover most of their farm Hofsnes, and will walk a circle around the cape to show you the best sites, and make sure the birds nesting there are treated with respect.

Some of the birds, like the great skua is quite important bird, and farm Hofsnes and the Nature Reserve Ingolfshofdi is part of the largest breeding ground in the world of the north Atlantic family of Great Skua.

Sometimes we see thousands of puffins sitting quite close to us even in April or in August, but even during the peak of the puffin season in July we have days where the puffins have gone to the sea to fish, especially when the weather is nice. However, the sightseeing and history learning part of the trip never fails. Even in storms the trip means adventure for nature lovers.