Now we do not count months or weeks anymore, we count days until the 2011 season starts, slowly but surely.Gentle Giants crew members Bessi and Máni are working hard to get our fleet in top shape for the summer.
During our tours passengers often notice and complement our beautiful surroundings. Joining a trip at many whale watching locations in the world means leaving land out of sight, searching for whales, seeing nothing but open ocean.
The other day the people of Husavik did not even have to go out on the bay to be able to see whales. A humpback found its way into the harbour! Now we know that even some of the big whales are out there in Skjalfandi already.
It is always interesting to explore new areas, to sail new seas. Today Daniel and I got the chance to experience the Outer Hebridean waters, in the north west of Scotland. An adventure to remember..
A good way to get the most out of an excursion is to do research in advance. It is easier to understand and remember things if you have heard names and seen pictures before. Therefore we have made an online whale guide where you can acknowledge our most common species to recognise them when joining a tour with us.
Gentle Giants is a proud partner of ”The Wild North”; a project with the aim of finding ways to contribute to the sustainable development of wildlife tourism.Participating in this project are tourism companies- and research institutions specialised in natural based tourism/wildlife tourism.
A carcass of a male humpback whale has drifted ashore close to the farm Unaós by Héraðs bay on the east coast of Iceland. Skarphéðinn G. Þórisson at the East-Iceland Institute of Natural History measured the whale together with the farmer at Unaós.
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Not all whales migrate away from the cold Icelandic winters. One example of this is Grundarfjörður fjord, on the west coast of Iceland, which has been in the news lately because of big number of whales.
It is weird and it is obvious. A humpback whale was spotted the other day, outside Port Allen in Hawaii. That in itself is not unusual, but the shape of it would make anyone look twice. A local pilot called Gerry Charlebois, found and photographed this odd humpback which seemed like broken on the middle.
