Iceland Day 14

We’ve now left North Iceland behind, and are in the Westfjords. In my image of the map being a reindeer with a huge sack on his back, we’re out of the sack and into the antlers. The first leg of the drive is to cross the top big antler, lopping off the Hornstrandir peninsula, the Drangajökull glacier, and what bit of rough gravel road there was north of Drangsnes along the Strandir coast. It’s all a huge wilderness, impenetrable without a backpack, full supplies, and probably a guide. We then descended into the southern side of the Ísafjarðardjúp fjord, which has multiple fjords itself.

We stopped at Litlibær farm, where we had coffee and tried to imagine what their life was like:

Just around the corner was a seal watching site — fun with binoculars, no pics because we didn’t have a long enough lens.

More scenery along the fjords:

We stayed in the town of Ísafjörður. Being June 20, the day-before-the-summer-solstice light was lovely.