These are screenshots from a trailer for the American TV show Ocean Treks™ with Jeff Corwin, when he joined our humpback whale researcher Charla Basran on board our boat Aþena to learn how the study of whale vocalizations can help to understand the gentle giants better.
One of the humpback whales that has been encountered in our bay during the last days is this pretty and unusual one with black pectoral fins, named Flatbread. This photo was taken yesterday morning by our guide Natàlia while it let the people on board our oak boat Faldur admire its whole body's beauty up-close.
This morning we proudly invited a group of future Icelandic guides whale watching with us, for the fifth year in a row. They study at The Icelandic School of Travel and Tourism (Ferðamálaskóli Íslands) and are now doing a tour together around the island to get to know the key tourism places better.
Our captain Pétur just reported the great news that they on board our oak boat Sylvía currently are watching a humpback whale in the western part of our bay. Humpbacks have generally been one of our most frequently sighted whale species during the last years.
This energetic group of students from the local upper secondary school went with us on the afternoon whale watching tour today. They take a specially developed Whale Watching Guide course, unique for their school here in Húsavík – the Whale Capital of Iceland.
Today is First Day of Summer – a cheerful holiday in Iceland that brings a promise about brighter times ahead. To celebrate this we would like to share with you the heart-warming story about a very romantic moment on one of our whale watching tours the other day.
Two sperm whales are currently in Skjálfandi Bay and our captain Halli just gave a live report from on board RIB Amma Helga. He said the first one they found was logging on the surface which made it possible for the passengers to get a very peaceful close-up encounter with this special, and to us very rare, gentle giant.
How time flies! Our season has now been going on for a month and it is time to level up. We are excited to present some news from 15th April on. The last days our beloved puffins have started arriving back for their nesting season.
After three years as a whale watching guide by Gentle Giants he took a one-year break and went lump fishing with his dad in Norway. Now Aksel Bjarnason is back in Húsavík, his second home – this time as our head guide.
We all have our personal first signs of spring. Here in Iceland it is always a big thing when the first golden plover arrives, which happened today and was reported by national media as usual. To our head captain on the RIBs, Sverrir, launching RIB Amma Helga today was his "sweet sign of spring", according to a video he shared on Facebook.
