We are still in full swing with season 2019 and offering whale watching departures from Húsavík’s harbor throughout November! Clearly, there is still plenty of time left for us to do what we love the most before our short winter break comes.
At the weekend, the first snowflakes of this autumn have touched the roads of Húsavík. Even though it disappeared again after a few hours, the drop in temperature has brought a winterly atmosphere to the town.
Sailing out into Skjálfandi Bay means going out on an adventure into the wild. And as unpredictable as wild nature can be, as surprising it is at the same time. One might be sailing along the mountain range and whilst enjoying the views of the majestic Cheek Mountains, out of the blue of the deep ocean a whale emerges and disturbs the silence with the sound of its powerful blow.
There is a lot to think about when you are a captain of our RIB boats. I asked our head RIB captain Sverrir about his daily life as a captain. A RIB captain’s day starts quite some time before the tour: “As a captain my day starts off by taking a look at current weather, future weather forecast, and wave height/length/duration.
Christel Loman has joined one of our “GG2 Big Whale Safari and Puffins” RIB speedboat tours this season. In her blog “Vijftig tinten groen” about Iceland, she dedicated a whole article to her experience with us and to the wildlife that she encountered on the tour: "We booked tickets through the internet for a trip with Gentle Giants Whale Watching.
Rainbows are truly magical and there is this air of mystery attached to them. There is so much more to them than just their bright and breath-taking colours.Therefore, it is not at all surprising that we created so many fables and stories about this colourful phenomenon.
As expressed in my previous post, Skjálfandi Bay displays a variety of wildlife throughout the season - among them, several species of cetaceans: Another species showing up in the waters of Skjálfandi Bay is the northern bottlenose whale.
Skjálfandi Bay is known for the diversity of its wildlife and even though humpback whales are the most common whale to show up here, there is a wide range of other species visiting our bay, too. One of them is the minke whale, which is often found near the coastline in the southern part of the bay or along the mountains on the western side.
There's nothing more magical than being able to observe a humpback whale peacefully travelling through the ocean on a calm and beautiful day. - Sarah The video was taken earlier today by our captain Hallgrímur Guðmundsson.
Not only the ending of August indicated that the summer season is over. Also the weather has been letting us know that fall is coming.
