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Yesterday we arrived in Ísafjörður and spent the morning walking around the town. We visited the Westfjords Maritime Museum near the harbor, then had lunch near the town center. After lunch we boarded a small boat which whisked us off to Vigur Island. Vigur Island is home to one family, a tiny post office, the only windmill in Iceland, along with thousands of Puffins, Arctic Terns, Eider Ducks, etc. We took a stroll around the island, before which we were handed sticks for use in scaring off the Arctic Terns which we were told were nesting and very aggressive. We laughed it off until we got near their nesting areas, at which point the terns took to divebombing us. There were hundreds of them coming at us all at once, like something out of a Hitchcock movie. I got pooped on twice — once in the face and once in the hair. After that we returned to port and boarded our ship and headed of for Akureyri, where we arrived this morning. Today we took a tour bus out of Akureyri and first stopped at Goðafoss, a powerful waterfall cutting through the countryside. Next up was a stop at the pseudo-craters along the shore of Mývatn. There we stopped for lunch of Mývatn trout before heading to Dimmuborgir, an area of beautiful lava formations and, apparently, the name of a Norwegian heavy metal band. After walking around Dimmuborgir, we headed to the nearby Námaskarð, where hot gasses and sulphur belch out of the ground in a surreal, martian landscape. Finally we stopped by the Mývatn Nature Baths where naturally heated water is used to make a public bath where people can enjoy soaking in the warm water. We took a quick tour of Akureryi on our way back to the ship, where I sit writing this. Tomorrow we will be in Seyðisfjörður, our last stop in Iceland.
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