Walking around Djupivogur

Last year our tour of Iceland stopped in Djupivogur for a short bio break, and not a lot more.  But Bill got an ice cream with our travel buddies.  So, we knew it was small and sort of wondered how this would take two hours.

We had an early (8:30AM) walking tour, so got up early to visit the buffet and be ready.  The port is verry small, so we used tenders to get to shore.  The tour was…less a walk and more a shamble.  We sloughed along but did go modestly far from the town center.  There were nice views, some good descriptions and stories, and such.

Some of the tours were off road with big tires.

It was so cloudy, you could barely see the ship from shore.

We stopped at a "rock shop".  This guy walks around the island and picks up rocks and cuts them open.
It was actually entertaining the passion with which he talked about his hobby.

Bit of rainbow peeking through (I'm told).

A lighthouse in the bay/fjord.

Local scenery.

Pay no attention to the boat behind the rocks!

I don't think this tank is installed properly.  I have concerns.

We listened to a "concert" in the near tank.

We came across a few old tanks, “oil tanks” we were told.  (Cod Liver Oil, actually)  We were led inside where we found an arc of candles on the floor.  A lady then sang to us inside the tank.  The acoustics were pretty incredible and the tank walls reinforced and focused her vocal power, so there was some interesting echos and reverberations.  By the end of the walk, Theresa had 8000 steps (with a goal of 7500), so Bill offered to get her a wheel chair since she could not roll the extra steps over, but she declined. 😊

Singing in a cod live oil tank.

The piers were meant to hold pipes for offloading herring ships.
But the factory was never finished and the piers just stayed.
So, an artist proposed making them into artwork, by placing on 
each a shape replica of each native bird's egg.  (Not to scale).

This area (the East side of the island) is represented by this
pyramid shaped mountain.

Slow, slow, slow.

Crow berries in ground plants.

Overlooking Djupivogur.

Almost back!

The sea was a little rough.  But not bad.

After the tour, we jumped a tender back and then headed up for lunch at the buffet.  It was good!  All of that exercise, fresh air, and then food, and our bodies told us a nap was needed.  Our brief ‘just close eyes for a minute’ lasted from 1:15 to 2:20.  So, we got some coffee and eventually made it to Trivia at 4:30.  Our performance was…participation trophy worthy!  But we had fun and like our little group.

The day cleared up nicely!

Regent has a long tradition of having a “block party” where about 6:00, they invite everyone to come out of their staterooms and bring wine glasses, and they serve drinks and canapes encouraging us to mingle.  Being the social butterflies that we are, 5 minutes was a bit long. 

Leaving Iceland for ...?

We had dinner reservations at the Steak restaurant “Prime 7”.  We were seated at a table of 6, with a couple from Alabama and another from Australia.  The discussion was nice until someone decided to poke and see if he could get a reaction by mentioning the name of a rather controversial President.  Well, he didn’t get much rise, although we figured out a bit who was on which side of things.  We did tease our Australian friend a bit for it though!

After dinner, Theresa went to the show (some Broadway singing or something), and Bill did some work and then the Blog.