Woke up this morning thinking how very lucky we were to have
calm seas in one of the roughest parts of the Atlantic. Even saw some blue sky.
We’d set the phone alarm to get up and ready for our tour when the Captain’s
voice came over the speaker to say we won’t be going ashore! Thirty knot winds
had given us a width of 100m instead of our actual 35m going up the narrow
channel and increasing our speed over the 6.4 knots that we were doing, to
counter act the wind effect was too
dangerous in such a small port. He’d tried anchoring but that wasn’t viable
either. So around we went and goodbye to Torshavn, the only possible place to
go ashore in the Faeroes. Disappointing!
The winds are forecast to rise to 40 – 45 knots and at the
moment visibility is nil – a real pea-souper. The Faeroes – Hoppy got a few
pics and I saw a couple of grassy islands and a mountain – well the bottom of
it – the rest was lost in cloud. Trees are rare here and the little wooden
houses rooved with turf. Population 48.520.Size – 540 square miles. It’s
actually part of Denmark but autonomous. The trip we were to take went to a
neighbouring island through a 3 mile long undersea tunnel! There we were to see
a rune stone dated back to 1200 AD; handmade salmon ladders and a word turners
factory. Oh well – not today, and possibly never but who knows?
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