In one month our season starts again, April 1st, with daily departures until November 30th. We are very excited to start our 22nd year in offering whale watching and other exciting adventures from Húsavík.
Last week I was in India and visited my children's home in Kolkata where I was adopted from to Iceland 33 years ago along with other Húsavík children throughout the years. This was my second visit and a great experience to visit the children's home and get to know my origin in Kolkata.
Once again Gentle Giants is recognized for excellence. This time we are nominated for the 2023 Safety Prevention Awards by our insurance company VÍS. We are very proud of being one of top 3 companies in Iceland awarded this year for high safety procedures and quality operations.
Gentle Giants signed an agreement recently with local football girls to support their training trip to Denmark where they will visit and compete with professional football teams. The youth are part of north Iceland premier youth football league and this is a big opportunity for them to visit international clubs and improve their football skills and potential future careers.
After three years of no Mid-Atlantic due to COVID, it was a wonderful feeling to be back at Icelandair Mid-Atlantic Tradeshow which was held in Reykjavík last week for the 29th time. It offers the ideal setting for travel industry professionals from around the globe to meet, work together and exchange ideas, right in the midway between Europe and North America, Iceland.
What a successful and fun day we had attending the Mannamót – Natural Iceland Tourism Workshop yesterday in Reykjavík. It is always good to reunite with old friends and create new ones and Mannamót is a great platform to meet, as the name means "people coming together".
It is winter, Húsavík is covered with snow and our boats are securely tied in Húsavík harbour or indoors. The daylight is limited but slowly but surely the days are getting longer. The whale watching season starts on April 1st but here are some updates from the GG family.
Happy New Year to all our friends around the world. A new year has arrived and we are excited to see what 2023 will bring. Even though it's not that long ago that our 2022 season finished, we can't wait to get back out into Skjálfandi Bay and find out what whales will be visiting us in 2023. But before leaving 2022 behind, we would like to take you on a journey through our highlights of last year.
We send our warmest holiday greetings to you all!Best regards from the team of Gentle Giants
Our oak boat Faldur, the first vessel in our fleet, celebrates its 50th birthday this year and over twenty years of whale watching. It is a charming boat with a long history and still going strong. We are proud of preserving such traditional oak boats which have been very important throughout history in the maritime culture in Iceland.
