40 knots and counting

There's two stories to tell! One is from yesterday and is short, so that will be my starting point: We went on a morning boat trip and for the first two hours of the trip there was no sea life to be seen, then a porpoise was seen! Anticlimactic right? Well not long after that we got a call saying there were two humpbacks seen so we rushed over there and lo and behold, two humpback whales that were in such a friendly mood! They swam right up to another boat and checked them out, then came over to us and swam within metres of the boat and even rolled over to get a look at us!

Unfortunately I was zoomed a little too far in and the best shot I got was it's cheek.

But I also got a nice video of the encounter:

Today's story: So with the wind at 40 knots and the swell at 4.5m the boats decided going out would not be a clever idea.

I and Ailie took the morning to go for a walk up the lighthouse and along the cliffs to get some great views of the huge waves.
Peculiarly the fulmars and black-backed gulls were absolutely loving the wave action, they were both surfing along the crests and purposefully getting splashed by the waves. Any birders that know why these sea birds wish they were fish?

Anyway here's some visual stimulation:

As you can see, I finally got a good chance to get good photos of the famous Icelandic horses!

This is my favourite shot of the horses!

Thanks for reading my elongated post!