Le exposition

Sam and Marina's show

The Petrie Museum, a collection of curiosities from the arctic north

.......and some treats from the shark hunting exhibition:

Butter-box; for storing your butter, dripping and lard.

People of the fjord

Ancient candy

Seal shootin' gunz

Shark shootin' gun (Reebok for scale)

La route péninsule

Our trip to Devlin's exhibition in Saudákrókur

Winding our way round the peninsula of Trollaskagi, our first stop were the streets of Siglufjordur, which has a bakery, a grog shop and everything.

Spiky mountains on a slippery road

Slippery road

Our second stop, the hamlet of Hofsós

Home of stunning views 

 and rich old ladies who build infinity pools

Onwards to Saudárkrókur for the art exhibition as the afternoon sun came out.

The art shack

Samples of work by artist Devlin Shea

The taxonomy is done by the town baker, who runs a lovely bakery next door 

The spread I was all over like a rash, including homemade gooey almond biscuits compliments of the baker

Driving back home the way we came, we stopped in at the infinity pool for a paddle

and a liquorice covered, liquid liquorice filled ice cream

A radioactive cobalt/magenta blend, the waxing gibbous moon and a lingering taste of liquorice heralded our departure for home

La neige dans l'Est

A day trip out east

The atmosphere

Godafoss in all its minus 10 elegance

Arrival in Húsavík! Whale watching capital of Iceland (with the exception of this day)

Intense Narwhal horn in Húsavík Whale Museum

Húsavík Natural History Museum, at the Culture House.

There was an exhibition on 20th century Icelandic Culture.

....I can't attest to that

Simple lives encouraged a home crafting industry

Icelandic symbolism

Feeding the seals

Alien Invaders

A Parliament of Owls

Onwards and eastwards to Ásbyrgi, capital of the Huldafólk.

A natural canyon, snow was ambling in the sky when we got there. Such was the magic!

Atop the escarpment

Ptarmigan and foxes were spotted, however the resident geirfalcon was absent.

I have to come back in summer.

J'ai mis le voile

Gone fishin'!

Captain Gunnar took us out with his family for a spot of fishing on the fjord

Captain Vidir (birthday boy) casting out a line

Our picture perfect day

Cutey pie observing safety protocols

The hand at the helm

Fancy a dip?

Mr and Mrs Seagull coming in for a nose

Gunni shows us how it's done

Getting to know the ropes

Kiddy winks on patrol

Our picture perfect day wraps it up

After fishing we went on a tour of the mussel farming factory

Cuteness

Non cuteness inside the factory
(these are deep sea redfish)

Cuteness and non cuteness combined

Badassness

Shoveling our dinner into a bag

Info session

Heavy duty dungarees

Our dinner got it's heart ripped out.

for us