Humpback whales are known to often migrate long distances between their feeding and breeding areas. Many come to the colder regions around Iceland for feeding during the summer months but then some head south to warmer waters in the winter for the breeding season.
The annual Icelandair Mid-Atlantic Tradeshow was held in Reykjavík last week and Gentle Giants took an active part as usual. The tradeshow was held for the 28th time. Mid-Atlantic offers a great platform for travel industry professionals from around the world to meet, work together and exchange ideas, in Iceland – a hub between Europe and North America.
Today was a very social day for Gentle Giants when we attended the Natural Iceland Tourism Workshop Mannamót in Kópavogur, south Iceland. The name means "people coming together" and suits well for this event where around 270 tourism companies from rural areas of Iceland gather to present their businesses.
A new year has begun and it is not a long time to go until the next season will start on March 1st. But before our boats will start sailing in Skjálfandi Bay for the 19th season, we would like to take you on a journey through our highlights of 2019. Gentle Giants had a great year with amazing whale encounters, many exciting projects in the maintenance department, we were awarded internationally for one of our tours, and last but not least, worked with a fantastic team to be very proud of.
We send our warmest holiday greetings to you all! Best regards from the team of Gentle Giants
In the end of October it was announced that Gentle Giants' tour GG2 Big Whale Safari & puffins received the GetYourGuide Awards 2019 for incredible travel experiences – the first ever Icelandic company to win the awards and the only company from Iceland winning this year.
Yet another great whale watching season has come to an end. We'd like to thank all our passengers for having joined our tours, but also our crew on land and on the boats for coming from near and far to make the tours possible.
As the number of whales has reached incredible counts during the last days, Skjálfandi Bay has made it into the news: RÚV published an article earlier this afternoon, telling about the unbelievable ongoings in the bay.
Recently, our tours have been truly magnificent with humpbacks showing up on all our departures. The whales seem to be moving back and forth along the Cheek Mountains feasting on huge amounts of small schooling fish near the coast.
November so far has brought beautiful winter weather to the town of Húsavík. Frost flowers decorate the town in the early morning and the sunrise throws a beautiful color play onto the mountains and over the bay.
