Saturday 1^st of August 2009, 17:00 hrs

The Húsavík Project

Dutch friends of the Whale Museum and Húsavík pay their respects. On Saturday August 1st at 17:00 the Dutch novelist and poet Paul Sterk will make a presentation of his works at the Whale Museum and officially hand over the latest CD of the Dutch band "The Giants of Húsavík" to the museum.

The fin whale that had stranded in Vík í Mýrdal in the south of Iceland in November 2008 (see news from December 2008) was successfully moved to Húsavík. Its skeleton was retrieved and hauled to Húsavík last week-end. Atli Már Guðjónsson, owner of the construction business in Vík, assisted the Museum from the start of this project to achieve the impossible.  

Yesterday afternoon, the passengers of a whale watching tour spotted something completely out of the ordinary: a basking shark approaching the boat! According to the locals, it must have been about 40 years ago that a basking shark was spotted in Skjálfandi Bay. 

After about ten days and many trips without spotting blue whales in Skjáfandi Bay, the whale watching boats had another blue whale encounter on the 3rd of July.