Our scheduled tours, as well as our extra trips, have often been completely full during the last days (please book your tour in advance if possible, for you to have a secure place on board). This is July in a nutshell and luckily the whales have been numerous too.
Summer by Gentle Giants is busy like expected; many passengers on numerous departures, enough of whales in the bay and all the time there is something happening. Around 15:00 I went down to the harbour and met Elin, guide on the 12:30 Big Whale Safari & Puffins, when they arrived back from their tour.
A blue whale has entered the bay for the first time for several weeks. They have been rare so far this season, compared to recent years, which is most likely connected to foraging.Peter, guide on today's 9:45 tour, explained their blue whale experience like this: "First we had encountered lots of humpback whales, probably six of them, before we saw the giant blow and I realised it must be something even bigger! The whole thing got really exciting and we managed to get good views of this huge blue whale - which actually was really big also for being a blue".
Today all tours so far have been cancelled due to bad weather. The flags stand straight because of the strong winds and there are white horses on the sea. Luckily the forecast is better for tomorrow! At Gentle Giants we chose to use the time when whale watching was on hold to have a rescue drill.
June by Gentle Giants has consisted of amazing whale encounters, a brand new boat arriving and an unforgettable crew-wedding. A perfect month with other words! July is coming up and we add on several daily departures and we hope that you want to join and/or follow our coming adventures.
A comment straight from my heart became an internal joke and now, several years later, a dreamlike reality. "I would like to get married here". The Gentle Giants staff sat on the grass hill in Naustavík - across the bay - and this strong feeling of admiration bubbled up inside me.
Last night at 19.00 Amma Kibba was out on its first Big Whale Safari ever. Both me and captain Sverrir were very excited to do this tour on our new RIB, as she is a lot bigger and faster than little sister Amma Sigga.
This is it. "I have to go on this boat, whatever it takes!" some people feel when strolling the harbour and seeing Amma Sigga - what will they say now...?! Today, on 21st June, we welcome yet another member to our fleet, the brand new and top-modern RIB Amma Kibba.
Our area, the north of Iceland, has been chosen by the well known travel guide Lonely Planet as one of the top ten destionations in Europe for 2013. "Great whale watching" is mentioned by Andy Murdock (Lonely Planet's U.
Since Húsavík is only around 60 km from the Arctic Circle, the sun never really sets here this time of the year. This makes it possible for us to go out for whale watching also late in the evenings and our passengers then get the opportunity to enjoy both the evening sun and the whales, if we get lucky.
