Our Gentle Giants team consists of people who care about whales, marine life and nature altogether. Some of our crew members have been working closely with marine mammals before joining our team and sharing both local and global experience with our passengers.
Nuri Pagès Prades from Spain joined our team early this season as a guide. This is what she had to say when leaving Husavik after her summer with GG: Today is the last day that I am working for Gentle Giants (at least this year!!) and it has been an amazing summer.
Earlier this month Gentle Giants attended the Vestnorden Travel Mart, which was held in Reykjavik this year. The Vestnorden Travel Mart is an annual event and was being held for the 23rd time this year.
September is usually a quite month in the whale watching. The number of tourists in Husavik decreases, the weather conditions change, and the bigger whales start migrating to warmer waters in lower latitudes.
Minkes and dolphins have been our main sightings in most of our tours the first days of September. On some tours however, we have been very lucky and even spotted a humpback whale as well as northern bottlenose whales!! Throughout this month we offer one tour every morning from Husavik harbour at 9:45. The weather forecast for the next days is quite promising … We recommend early booking - either online or by calling us +354 4641500. A minke whale just next to our boat Faldur.
The month of August is coming to an end and tomorrow we start our September schedule. From 1st - 10th September we will offer two whale watching tours daily at 9:45 and 13:15. After 10th September we have one trip every day at 9:45. The last weeks in the bay have been very special.
Last week Gentle Giants’ staff decided to join and celebrate season and summer 2008. Some of our team members will leave soon so it was the last chance to meet and do something all together. We decided to go to Flatey Island, our little paradise in Skjálfandi Bay.
The weather in Húsavík – and in Iceland in general - has been surprisingly good lately. We have had temperatures of 20-25 degrees, slow winds and perfect sea conditions almost everyday during the last weeks.
In some of our tours the last days we have had some very unusual sightings – northern bottlenose whales in Skjalfandi Bay! The northern bottlenose whales are very uncommon on our tours and therefore a very nice surprise and pleasure seeing them.
