Icelandic Favorites🐋🏊‍♂️🌧

Today, we should experience a real Icelandic summer for the first time. 9 degrees and rain.

However, it should remain dry in the morning. So we booked our whale watching for 9 AM.

Probability of seeing a whale is 98%. So we hoped not to be among the 2%.

From our cottage to the harbor, it was just a 🐱🐱leap. Dressed in our overalls, we set off for 3 hours through the fjord and sea.

Since the weather held up, the ride out of the fjord was great. After a short time, we already saw some dolphins🐬🐬. Simply beautiful.

But we obviously also wanted to see the ocean giants.

All eyes on the water, and we actually saw the blowhole in front of us.

A beautiful humpback whale swam diagonally in front of us. Incredible!

After some diving and surfacing, it was time to head back to the harbor. In the end, we were out for 3.5 hours. Super!

At the corner café in Dalvik, we had fish soup (1 refill included).😋

With the rain starting, we drove to Akureyri again.

Strolled a bit through the city with ☕️🍰 (very easy to navigate).

Afterward, we tried one of the favorite pastimes of the Icelanders.

A visit to a geothermal bath. The Forest Lagoon is built into the rock and forest above Akureyri. Very new and modern.

Cozy 38 degrees (and once 12 degrees) in the water. Lovely.

It steams, the bar is open with all the drinks one desires. Tables are available in the water.

Really crazy, but also many locals. Cool or rather warm. And this in windy, rainy weather.

Around 8:30 PM, we left the lagoon (open until 11:30 PM). Picked up 2 burgers at the food truck and headed back to the cottage in pouring rain.

Lasting memories✅️

Tomorrow we leave the north and head to the east coast.

Then the Jimny can purr again, and the eyes can marvel once more.

Stay tuned!

Dine🐳Jeff