What it takes to bring a whale to you. 7:30am, high season, the ticket center opens the doors, blue jackets on. Phone starts ringing, computers on to check on emails and bookings and first guests come in.
Just a few minutes ago a call reached the ticket center letting us know that our "GG2 Big Whale Safari" morning departure once again has found a rarely seen visitor: A SPERM WHALE surprised and delighted our crew and passengers short after they had left the harbor! Of course, also our upcoming departures will try to show the whale to our guests! Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales (and among the larger whales in general) as they reach a size of up to 18 metres! Come and join us on a tour! - Sarah
After a few days of unpleasant weather (which forced us to cancel most of our trips) all our boats departed as scheduled this morning. Passengers had waited for days to finally meet the gentle giants of Skjálfandi Bay! As if Mother Nature knew, they weren’t disappointed at all.
After we had to cancel most of our departures due to strong winds and a wavy sea throughout the past days, the weather is finally changing for good! The forecast for tomorrow looks really promising: sunshine with only a few clouds! Additionally, and for us the most important, the wind decreased and also the sea has started to calm down.
Until the 20th of September we will add an extra „GG1 Whale Watching“ departure at 10:45! Following are our new scheduled daily departures for the GG1 Whale Watching: 9:45, 10:45, 13:15, 16:45! For more information and reservations click here.
September has started marvelous. Humpback whales were sighted throughout these days. Two individuals were seen swimming side by side daily. One of them turned out to be Snow White, a whale well known in this bay since years.
August is over and by that, a simply fabulous month finishes. Humpback whales were sighted daily, often several individuals in one area and some would even swim side by side, surfacing and diving synchronically.
Today, on the 29th of August, "Iceand Pro Cruises" has visited us in Húsavík for the last time of this season. Our visitors were blessed with beautiful weather, calm seas and lovely humpback whales surfacing around our boats continously.
Minkes are usually the shyer ones. Even though one can still get an excellent look at them, they are rarely seen approaching a boat for curiosity. However, within a few days, I was witnessing that behavior twice during a “GG2 Big Whale Safari” tour: Some days ago we suddenly saw a minke floating on the surface.
Even though it has been very foggy today, still all our tours have been really successful with many different exciting sightings!However, the luckiest ones were probably our crew and passengers who left the harbor on-board our beautiful oak boat “Sylvía” at 16:45 this afternoon.
