Seeing a blue whale is literally a big thing and our passengers today were lucky enough to encounter the first one of our season. Blue whales are the biggest animals on Earth and can reach up to 33 metres and 190 tonnes.
That every tour is a new adventure is not just something we say. Today's two first tours of the season clearly prove this. A pod of white-beaked dolphins and several harbour porpoises were encountered on the very first trip at 10:45. During the afternoon’s extra departure at 14:15 the conditions had changed already and a pod of eleven orcas and three fin whales were seen instead.
The very first tour of the year, scheduled at 10:45 on Thursday, is almost fully booked already. To meet the demand we have opened up an extra departure at 14:15. This is so much fun, especially as we have never started the season this early before.
Today it is exactly 100 days left until Iceland's first ever World Cup match on 16 June. The celebration is kicked off with a special message delivered by our President and the First Lady (watch the embedded video).
"... We even had a whale come right up next to and under our boat. An exciting experience to see the humpbacks and how sweet they are, the crew showed us a great time!" This is a quote from an Instagram post by our passenger Chris Giordano, who documented his 10-day self drive around Iceland last September and dedicated Day 6 to our GG2 Big Whale Safari.
Two weeks only. The countdown continues. Our whale watching tours will start earlier than ever before this year – on 15th March – and we are getting the final things together to make this the best season ever.
Have you met Charla, the Canadian PhD. humpback whale researcher who is also a whale watching guide and ticket sales staff by us at Gentle Giants? At the age of seven she drew a picture of herself with an orca and expressed her future dream of working with whales for the first time.
"It is hard to describe the feeling we had when that first Humpback whale silently breached the icy waves and surfaced beside our boat". This is how Roxanna Froese from Canada begins the blog post about her whale watching experience with Gentle Giants.
Finally! It is now only about a month left until our first tour of the year leaves Húsavík harbour on 15th March – the first out of thousands in 2018. We are a whole bunch of people working hard to make this season even better than the ones before.
Valentine's Day is around the corner and you don't have a gift for your loved one yet? Great – this is your chance! Now you get 10% discount on all whale watching departures 2018 (GG1 and GG2) with promo code GGWHALELOVE when booking before February 15th 2018. What could possibly be more romantic than enjoying breathtaking whale encounters together on a cruise in the midnight sun and sharing the memories forever? Think about it, but not for too long.
