Warm welcome at Húsavík

We arrived at Húsavik this morning. Three beautiful old whale
watching boats came out, to escort us into the harbour as a gesture of
welcome.

I spoke to the Thorunn Hardardöttir and Heimir Hardason, brother and
sister, who run a whale watching company in Húsavík, and who
brought their boats out to great us.

Hardardöttir, on the history of his boat (115K mp3), which used to
be a whaling boat, and is now a whale watching boat.

Hardason about the whales they have seen here (97K mp3).

More info on local whale watching on their website (Icelandic only for now,
English section will be live next week).

The mayor also was waiting at the dock for us. He presented Derek (captain)
with a flag of the city, and some warm words of welcome.

-- Andrew