The other day I went out on one of our morning trips. It has been great out here on the bay in August, and today we are half way through this beautiful month where we can see the season changing! We have had many different species visiting the bay these past two weeks.
Hin árlega fjölskylduhátíð Fiskidagurinn Mikli á Dalvík er framundan um helgina og RIB bátar GG sigla frá Húsavík á laugardagskvöldið. Verð 15.000,- per galli. Takmarkaður fjöldi er í boði og fyrstur kemur – fyrstur fær.
Húsavík is a small town with only a couple of thousand inhabitants. Nevertheless, it got a huge community. Many people are connected in a lot of different ways. By coming here, you would be surprised of how vibrant and lively the atmosphere is here in town.
Imagine practising yoga in Icelandic wilderness, enjoying healthy food and meditating in midnight brightness during a restorative weekend retreat. This is all possible with our GG10 Yoga Retreat Flatey Island – with the last scheduled departure from Húsavík, Iceland on August 11th.
With their long and narrow wings, they are the biggest sea birds of our northern hemisphere. A fully grown northern gannet reaches a wingspan of 1 meter and 80 centimeters long. They have a streamlined body shape adapted for plunge-diving at extremely high speed (up to 100 km/h).
I´m lucky enough that by working as a guide at Gentle Giants, I have the opportunity to see whales every day. Yet even though I see whales on a daily basis, it often feels like I am seeing them for the very first time, when I have passengers who are so excited to see their first whale.
Working as a whale watch guide in Húsavík allows one to have new, beautiful and memorable experiences every single day. When leaving the harbor we never know how the tour is gonna be, or what we will see.
Last days we had really amazing trips, where calves were protagonist. It is the time where a lot of the white-beaked dolphins are giving birth and pods are integrated by several young individuals. They are quite easy to identify, since they love playing and jumping out of the water, while they are being watched by the adults.
Yesterday night was one of those evening when everything comes together. Humpback whales took literally our breath away from the beginning of the tour until the end. As a start, we were lucky enough to observe 4 fully grown humpbacks lunge-feeding right next to our boat; coming up at the surface with their mouths wide open! The number of whales in the bay was countless as we could see blows all around us in the distance.
Not for nothing Húsavík is called the whale watching capital of Europe: within the past days the number of whales in the bay has increased incredibly! Humpback whales seem to be everywhere! As one looks around their flukes appear in every direction and the horizon is covered by a cloud of blows.
