We toodled about Husavik before and after our whale watching expedition.
Always enjoy the beautiful buildings
A larger and more elaborate church than most.
These larger churches often host musical concerts.
On our way to the northern coast, I was captivated by the sheep.
Love the black and white mixtures
We skipped the famous Blue Lagoon but wanted to take a hot bath soak somewhere.
We stumbled across this brand new spa (GeoSpa) which had literally opened one week ago. It faced the inland sea and was just a wonderful experience!
Icelanders are very strict about keeping their spas clean (this is natural water and they use no chlorine),so there is a mutual area shower (men ad women are separate) where one must strip naked, swimsuits off as well. Since this was a brand new spa, there was no attendant to monitor but we heard stories that most Icelandic spas have a matron who sits there and makes sure you take everything off! Having done the Japanese ofuro, this was not a problem for us, but I did feel fortunate that I had the place to myself!!
Such a beautiful location! It was a cold day and the soak was well appreciated.
It was a cloudy, dreary day so we spent the rest of the day at local museums. One was the Herring Museum where the history of catching and preserving herring was featured. Apparently, large numbers of women were employed to do this tedious, smelly, back breaking work. You had to lean over and push the herring into the barrels.
Very informative museum. Learned a lot!!
They showed what the dormitories of the women looked like,
complete with undies hanging on the line!! 😂😂😂
We saw a lot of folk art on the buildings, many, many trolls.
Stopped in a very small museum and asked about "..polar bears in Iceland???". It seems that every year, one or two polar bears swim over from Greenland. Not on purpose, mind you! In Iceland, they can't find the food they need and are usually killed to protect the people. 😓 But this little museum keeps the memory of this guy alive and well.
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