We are presently motor sailing west with Iceland astern. The wind is from the west and the forecast has us motor sailing most of the way to New Foundland.
All told, we spent 6 nights either docked or anchored here, plus an afternoon anchored at the hot springs. Add to that the 4 nights that Ann and I spent prior to the voyage and that adds up to a whole lot of fjords, hot springs, museums, restaurants and Icelanders. We traveled above the Artic Circle and visited places most tourists never see.
For a relatively small island country it has an amazing variety of subclimates, people and local culture. One could, for example, spend a month wandering around the western fjords and still not see it all. This is, in large part due to the terrain and road buildiplng. The Central Plateau, I'm told, is a complete wilderness area, only accessible in the summer months like much of the east, north and northwest coasts, linked together by air or the ring road which follows the irregular, finger like fjords and intervening mountains effectively, it seems, doubling the driving distance. Boats are still often the easiest way to get from one place to another as most towns are on the coast or in a fjord.
Now the ship board routine returns. We have left the Icelandic time zone and will over the coming days cross 2 more time zones.
The captain, permanent crew and voyage crew have all proven to be great people who are very adept at getting along in a small confining space and moral is high.
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