What a
surreal night. We watched Skyfall and then before bed, had a peak out the
window, the Northern Lights were building. Kitted up, we went outside to watch
them. Oh my gosh, it was the best we have ever seen them. They were waving
across the sky, chopping and changing constantly. With no light pollution
around, it was perfect. The American’s who are building a lodge close by,
joined us for the show, with their many beers. They start work at 7am, finish
at 10pm and between that time, they drink…with no days off.
Luckily, the
workers were off at the crack of dawn so we had the gorgeous house to
ourselves. I sat in the hot tub admiring the view of the Arctic sea. All hot
water is taken from the natural geothermal spring on the hill close by. We
could see the steam coming off of the spring. A morning hot tub was divine.
On with our
journey and around the rest of the troll mountains, passing lots of skiing
fields and lots of tunnels through the mountains. One village even had a ski
jump! We arrived early to catch our ferry to Hrisey, an island North of
Akureyi. We previously flew over this gorge when we got the small plane to
Grimsey. It only took 15 mins on the ferry and we were there. We were in for a
treat, puffins and eider ducks greeted us when we docked. We walked to our
holiday home and found 6 Ptarmigan! Pure white and fluffy.
We thought we
would do the island walk and followed the trail for a little while before it
was impassable. The snow was so deep, we were falling about all over the place,
so instead decided to walk to the lighthouse. Which is walking almost
the entire length of the island (7.5km long). So, a very hearty walk through deep snow, with
nothing and nobody around. Just us, in the middle of a fjord, on an island,
just off the Arctic Circle. Bliss.
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