The first week of August has been just as amazing as the rest of the season so far. Today Húsavík is enjoying 20°c, sunshine and a bay full of whales. Not only dozens of humpbacks and several pods of white-beaked dolphins but also five northern bottlenose whales have made their way into our bay.
Gentle Giants offers a muti-trip pass which gives you the possibility of going on as many GG1 tours as you want for a certain amount of days.Exactly that did Ulrika and Roger from Sweden - and they were extremely happy with their choice; “We‘ve been talking about going to Húsavík for quite some time and when it was finally decided, the multi-trip pass for 3 days felt perfect.
Exciting, loud and important. Our passengers on the 13:15 tour got to experience something very special today which was planned but not a part of our standard whale watching trip. The Icelandic coast guard together with the local rescue team had a safety drill on board our boat where a woman from the rescue team got winched up from the deck of Sylvía.
So, today we enter the month of August and even though no schedules change we can still look back at July and conclude: We do not remember a season as successful as the this one has been so far.The whales are many – still – and active.
Having a humpback whale checking out the boat is something really special and amazing to watch, but having a humpback doing that on all my three trips the other day was something unbelievable and indescribable for me.
Those days the summer is high in Húsavík. Loads of people wander the streets, enjoy the sun (which is shining bright and warm) and go whale watching. There is an annual festival going on over the weekend, called Mærudagar - Candy Days.
How close can you get to a whale...? Never in my five seasons by Gentle Giants have I experienced a humpback scratching its nose to the keel of our boat nor examining us so closely, calmly and for so long as this one did this morning.
We were waiting on board Amma Sigga for the humpback to blow once again. The sun shone, the sea was flat and all you could hear was the silence - but everything changed in a second. Suddenly the calm surface was pierced by the massive body of a humpback whale which shot itself up, twisted and landed on its side.
Want to catch your own meal? Even though whale watching is our biggest product we do offer many other tours as well. One of them is sea-angling. Two days ago Valdi Jón, Daniel and I went out on Skjálfandi Bay with ten passengers who were trying their luck with the rods.
This season we have been luckier with humpback whales than ever before. We do not remember them being so many nor so acrobatic as they have been and are those days. They have been jumping, flipper slapping and lob tailing on nearly every trip.
