The story of a summer project. While in Húsavík, chances are you visited the Whale Museum before or after having joined a whale watching tour. Besides its permanent showrooms and the impressive life-size, real whale skeletons, the museum also hosts temporary exhibitions about local projects or artwork.
Humpback whales are not only known for their acrobatic displays above water – especially in their breeding grounds – but even while swimming and diving beneath us these gentle giants are incredibly agile.
Today, 1st of November, starts our last month of whale watching for this season. Once a day at 10:15am, we will continue to head out at sea for our GG1 Whale Watching tour - in search of the gentle giants of the ocean.
As October is about to end, another well known humpback whale has arrived to Skjálfandi Bay. Evero, who was first sighted in September 2016 (and yearly since!), is back once again! Look at the photo taken earlier today and then the photo from October 2023 and thoroughly compare the animal's tail: humpback whales can be distinguished and identified by the iconic black and white patterns on the underside of their flukes.
Earlier this summer, Rakesh and Anjali from the Netherlands, along with their six children, joined one of our GG1 Whale Watching tours on oak boat Faldur. The family writes the travel blog My Travel Family (Instagram: @my_travelfamily) Rakesh and Anjali have always loved traveling and after their first baby was born, they continued to be a family travelling the world with kids, starting already with babies from one month old.
THE BLUE FAMILY Gentle Giants is very proud of its staff which unites both local and international people of all ages and various backgrounds. Still, there's at least one thing they all have in common: their passion for whales and their job, whether that's on the boats and at sea or on land.
During our whale watch season, many different humpback whale individuals come to feed in Skjálfandi Bay. Some might just pass by or stay for a few hours only. Others are around for days and sometimes even weeks - and some might actually return year over year.
Blue, minke and humpback whales, white-beaked dolphins, harbour porpoises, and orcas have fascinating and diverse methods for finding food in the ocean. These methods often involve a combination of sight, sound and other senses, showcasing the incredible adaptations these marine mammals have developed.
While the current season is long not over and our boats still heading out for whale watching daily until the end of November, preparations for the next year have started already. For those among you who are already planning their trip to Iceland next year, it is now possible to read into our sales manual for 2025, get inspired, but even make a booking for our tours next season.
When heading out onto Skjálfandi Bay in search for whales, the first thing we usually spot - oftentimes from a far distance - is the spout of the whale, or also called the blow. The spout looks much like a cloud of mist shooting up from the surface - everytime the whale exhales air.
