We had rain all through the night and then all day today. It was mostly like a foggy rain and misty, then faster at times.

We decided to try the silver ring route today. We headed up the coast getting closer to the arctic circle. Iceland doesn’t quite touch the arctic circle but is close in the north.

We went to a sea town called Husavik. There was no wind and so lovely reflections in the harbour. Here is popular for whale watching tours and we saw three boatloads going off and one returning.

Instead we went to the whale museum. 

There were skeletons of different whales, small minke whales to the best in the museum a blue whale! The blue whale had washed up along the coastline and had been the start of this collection.

There were documentaries about the Faroes whale culling and slaughter and their point of view about this. Interesting but very wrong!

We spent a long time in there as it was so interesting.

As it was pouring when we came out we went to a fish 

restaurant/cafe/bar. We treated ourselves to fish of the day dinner. It was a fish similar to cod they said. It was oven cooked,fresh and tasty. With rice noodles asparagus jus and kale with small potatoes.

We continued on our way after walking around the harbour now looking at the wooden boats.

Along the silver trail we reached Asbyrgi. It is a huge canyon surrounded by a deep half circle arc of cliffs. This is part of the volcanic landscape and was probably created by fierce rivers. We stayed in the

information centre for a while.

I took all my images on my small camera as I didn’t want to get my big camera wet.

On the return journey we passed by Godafoss. This time we walked down the other side of the falls and got a better view of them. 

Back in Akureyri it has stopped raining and although damp with low swirling fog along the mountains, it looks stunning over the sea.

We move further north and east tomorrow.