Day 15 (Mon): Vestmanna bird cliffs

Weather: foggy

Walked: 3,5 km

Our third and last summer course week started with the regular language lesson in the morning on Monday the 21st June. We had a tad longer lunch break and I had time to go home to Mrs. Fanny and prepare lunch. After the lunch break we had a few guest lectures at the Fróðskaparsetur: one about the Faroese Language Board and one about the Faroese dictionaries the University is responsible for. The guest lectures were quite interesting, but I was still a bit tired from the hike on Nólsoy, so my concentration wasn't fully up to 100%..

After the lessons we went on another excursion: our course leader had planned a trip to Vestmanna. Vestmanna is located on the same island as Tórshavn, that is, on Streymoy. In Vestmanna we went on a boat ride to the bird cliffs and it was fantastic! In the morning I would have liked the weather to be sunny and warm as it had been on Sunday, but on the other hand: the tour to Vestmanna became much more interesting with a little fog and beautiful clouds.

The bird cliffs were very high and if I remember correctly, in some place the cliffs were 600m high. 600 meters on a "round" hill feels very different from 600 meters of a cliff that plunges vertically in to the rough seas beneath. And some fearless men need to climb these cliffs: sometimes they need to rescue a lamb in trouble or sometimes they go gathering for bird eggs... Wicked! :S

You really can't tell just by looking at the photos, but it was actually quote cold in the brisk sea breeze. When you look at the photos or when you just looked at the cliffs IRL in this thick fog, it reminded of pictures that you see of cliffs in South East Asia: I think it looks a little bit like rain forest.

The boat took us inside caves and it was awesome!:) I'm hoping that my photos turned out nice:)

Our boat went through this little cave!