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| Photo: Lisa Anderson |
If it’s whale watching in
Iceland, mainly the name Husavik springs to mind, our destination for this
morning. Only passing from Grimsey to the Northeast of Iceland we had spotted
so many whales, literally on the drive-by, how promising is it to go out with
the people who live here! And indeed some of them are bold enough to give a
guarantee to spot the gentle giants. The port of Husavik sports many of very
beautiful whale watching boats, giving the whole place a bit of a Moby-Dick
feeling.
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| Photo: Klaus Kiesewetter |
So it is more than natural that
some of us set out with the schooner Haukur to see plenty of birds and of
course follow the blows at the oceans surface.
After a stunning visit at the
steep cliffs that were literally teeming with puffins it takes only a short
ride until the first whales come into sight. In the end the statistics speak of
minkys, fin whales and humpbacks. Not bad for a mornings ride!
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| Photo: Lisa Anderson |
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| Photo: Klaus Kiesewetter |
At the same time others were busy
marinating in the Myvatn Nature Baths, geothermal natural pools of a constant
40 degrees (centigrade…), after a pretty hike around the perfect caldera of
Hverfell. Really volcanic it gets on the Lake Myvatn Express that takes the
third group through the mighty lava fields of Dimmuborgir and the boiling
sulfur pots of Namaskard. So there is something for everybody, many stories are
swapped after returning for the ride to our evening destination Thorshofn,
where the local music school performs for us in the observation lounge.
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| Photo: Lisa Anderson |
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| Photo: Lisa Anderson |
