"... We even had a whale come right up next to and under our boat. An exciting experience to see the humpbacks and how sweet they are, the crew showed us a great time!" This is a quote from an Instagram post by our passenger Chris Giordano, who documented his 10-day self drive around Iceland last September and dedicated Day 6 to our GG2 Big Whale Safari.
Two weeks only. The countdown continues. Our whale watching tours will start earlier than ever before this year – on 15th March – and we are getting the final things together to make this the best season ever.
Have you met Charla, the Canadian PhD. humpback whale researcher who is also a whale watching guide and ticket sales staff by us at Gentle Giants? At the age of seven she drew a picture of herself with an orca and expressed her future dream of working with whales for the first time.
"It is hard to describe the feeling we had when that first Humpback whale silently breached the icy waves and surfaced beside our boat". This is how Roxanna Froese from Canada begins the blog post about her whale watching experience with Gentle Giants.
Finally! It is now only about a month left until our first tour of the year leaves Húsavík harbour on 15th March – the first out of thousands in 2018. We are a whole bunch of people working hard to make this season even better than the ones before.
Valentine's Day is around the corner and you don't have a gift for your loved one yet? Great – this is your chance! Now you get 10% discount on all whale watching departures 2018 (GG1 and GG2) with promo code GGWHALELOVE when booking before February 15th 2018. What could possibly be more romantic than enjoying breathtaking whale encounters together on a cruise in the midnight sun and sharing the memories forever? Think about it, but not for too long.
Some might think there is nothing going on at Gentle Giants at this time of year when our boats stay in harbour, but under the surface there is so much happening – not at least for our sales team which has its busiest period now.
"I have been on many whale watching tours around the world before but it was never anything like on Húsavík. I still can't imagine a better way to see a giant like a humpback up close than with the RIB safari Gentle Giants offers.
Yesterday was a very social day for Gentle Giants when we attended the natural Icelandic tourism workshop Mannamót. The name means "people coming together" and suits well for this event where around 200 tourism companies from all over Iceland gather to present their businesses, side by side, in an airplane hangar in Reykjavík.
Imagine a late summer evening in the north of Iceland. The day breeze has left, the sea is like a mirror and the neversetting midnight sun paints the entire sky in warm colours. You are on board a drifting speedboat, waiting for that peaceful humpback whale to resurface for more long, loud breaths.
