Today Ashleigh joined us, fresh from Australia via Reykjavik. She's unpacked & all cleared away.

We went for a long walk on the black sands of the coastal beach and its grasslands inland. Teeming with birdlife. A lot of them sitting on eggs. we found the nests of terns, barnacle geese, eider, fulmar. Others seemed to be nesting but we did not find theirs - the curlew, oyster catcher, woodcock, swan. A fresh breeze blowing in from the open sea, the  horizon inland teeming with jagged mountains, snow capped.

We have til July 6th to get to Isafjordur to meet Mike. From now to that point we are just tourists, albeit on a boat.

2 days ago Jon took us out on his boat. It was the day of prayers for the fishermen, with a barbecue for all, and quite a few villagers went out on various boats for an excursion. We stopped in the fjord to take cod - just finished them up this evening. Pic is of me (l) and Karl (r), with Jon and his grandson Richard. Photo by Jonina Gudmundsdottir.


Tomorrow we go up the coast, probably to Neskaupstadir. Fair winds & good weather are forecast. 

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