or take the PLEDGE even, not the PEDGE! sorry I'm terrible with typos ;-)

I strikes me as strange that Greenpeace are promoting tourism, and thereby air travel, while at the same time campaigning against climate change. Would you also advocate buying coal or nuclear power from iceland if they promised to stop hurting whales?

Hi again folks,
I just wanted to tell you that your story about seeing the blues ,made such impression on me ,that I kept dreaming about whales all night long!

Just now I'm so jealous that you Greenpeace folks are in Iceland, so I wanted to tell Brian to not forget his promise to us cyberactivists(that we all shall have a big party and watch whales when Iceland stops whaling!)

Ann

Ann

Jones, - I think the idea is that if people are going on holiday somewhere, and going to be taking air travel, then they should go elsewhere and not Iceland.

And when the time is right, they will be encouraged to go to Iceland, rather than somewhere else. Nobody is encouraging anyone to take a holiday/ air travel when they otherwise, would not.

Hope that makes sense?

L.

Fantastic! Keep teeling us some great stories from there, I'm really envious, but those images makes me dream...

I was in Husavik on a whale watching trip too and saw 2 of the blue whales!!! It truely was amazing but just a shame we couldn't see much of them as they didn't fluke for us.

I came across this blog because I saw the rainbow warrior in the harbour when we arrived and wondered what the deal was these days. Must admit had to take a few piccies of the ship as well as the whales for my childhood memories in the 80s :D

I do infact remember Marnee sitting opposite me wrapping up in her weatherproofs before being asked to go on another boat along with the other greenpeace guys as the trip was so popular!!

Iceland is an amazing place and don't let the whaling put you off of going. A lot of it's tourism both in Husavik and Reykjavik is whale watching and I'm sure they wont damage such a growing industry.

Flo