LJ and NJ

Friday night we took a tour offered by a local company which offers a three-hour evening tour in the bay of Reykjavik.  The boat goes pretty far out — almost an hour from port — but not quite into the open North Atlantic Ocean.  The company makes no guarantee that you will see anything; but clearly the draw is the possibility of seeing whales and porpoises.  We didn’t.  We did see lots of sea birds, including large ganets, small puffins, and several different kinds of gulls — all busily going after their dinner.  By summer Iceland standards it was a warm night, but it still gets pretty cold out on the water.  We were all wearing several layers, including waterproof outer layers; winter gloves and hats.  And so we got cold, but not too cold.  There was always the option of being inside, but would’ve meant missing whomever showed up near the boat.  Boat left at 8:30p and didn’t return till midnight.  On the way back we were “serenaded” by a local singer/guitarist who would have done well to sing Icelandic songs.  Instead he chose everything from John Denver to Neil Diamond

to Bob Dylan.  Bad!!  But we got a good laugh out of it.