This is looking west towards the North Sea. Well, technically everywhere you look is the North Sea. I think I read that there is nowhere in the Faroes where you are more than 2km or 3km from the North Sea. Alex and Antoine headed down. I wanted to wait another half hour to see if the sun reappeared. It didn't so I headed down to give A&A a ride to Gjógv to catch the 3pm bus. I wanted to spend more time exploring the North of the island. I found Gjógv to ...

Eventually the sun started flirting with our emotions and made the briefest appearance. Just enough time to see through the clouds to the world below.

This is the CSI marker for a hiker who died waiting for sunshine. Chalk doesn't work here.

Today was the day to either get serious or whimp out. The easy choice was to take the ferry to the island of Kalsoy to see the statue of the seal woman. But, I didn't get rolling fast enough to drive to Klaksvik to catch the 8am ferry. The 10am would work, but the I'd spend most of the day on Kalsoy since the return is pretty late. So I got serious and decided to climb the mighty peak Slættaratindur. At 880 meters (2,900 feet) it is the tallest mountain in the ...

This is another sunny shot near Leirvik (I think) looking east.