August 23
No northern lights last night, too bright. Early morning 6:00am start. Nice north easterly, Sails up after breakfast and off we go.
Good practice for downwind sailing. Stayed on the helm for most of the morning till lunch. Good session.
Decided to catch up on some reading and maybe a nap, expecting a quite afternoon!
Shortly afterwards, Jet utters the magic words “Orcas” 😀
Dash to the deck and lo behold we see 2 Orcas (an adult and a juvenile) they don’t stick around and move on sharpish.
Few minutes later we see a group of them coming towards us. I count 1,2,3,4 fins appear side by side. 2 quite large dorsals. There were I think 5-6 in the group, they crossed us at a slow pace and  were playing in the waves. Jonathan got some stunning photos, one of them breaching 😳
When I came back up after a quick nap, the crew surprised me with a blueberry birthday cake  (that we picked up the previous evng in the hills)(they missed it by few days 😊)
Saw 3 minky whales. That was nice.
Wind dies as we were approaching the harbour. So engine on and to the harbour wall
Walk to town waterfall and enjoy the church. The new church’s are really beautiful in Iceland, a reinterpretation of old architecture in glass and metal


Iceland and East Greenland - Day 19 (August 23)

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