Kelp forests, marine life and algae

We will enter the ocean from a beach right by the Akranes campsite. The entrance is accessible and easy to enter and exit.

The North Atlantic ocean is full of Kelp forests wich colorful algea. This is a great habitat for a number of marine species, including lumpsuckers, flat fishes, hidden crabs, nudibranches, and seals when lucky.

You will most likely notice pairs of eyes sticking out of the sandy patches of the ocean floor where the flounders live. Soft orange coral also intermittently decorates the sandy ocean floor. In the area of the kelp forests, a wolf fish might pay you an unexpected visit or stick its head out of a pile of rocks, looking a bit like a prehistoric creature.

The town of Akranes is located about a 40 minute drive from Reykjavik on the other side of the bay. This small town is not visited by a lot of tourists although it boasts a beautiful lighthouse and Guðlaug, a geothermal pool on the beach, that are both well worth a visit.

The pick up time of this tour depends on the tides. We usually want to end our dive around the peak of the high tide. Note that ocean dives in Iceland depend on the weather and it can happen that scheduled ocean dive trips have to be canceled due to unfortunate weather conditions. If that is the case we usually have a plan B and can offer you other dive sites, such as Garður), Bjarnagjá), Kleifarvatn), Davíðsgjá) or Silfra) that do not depend on the weather as much as the ocean.