Today we woke to a nice sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. It would have been nice if it was like that last night for the northern lights, thanks Iceland.
At breakfast Keith disclosed that he'd had an incident with his wash bag. His extra large bottle of Lynx shower gel had leaked in his wash bag covering everything. He spent 20 mins trying to clean it out and ended up throwing it in the bin. By doing this however he had filled the bathroom with bubbles, including the bin, floor sink, etc. The sink is still unusable as every time you turn on the tap it froths up. Keith is now known as Bubbles.
The others relayed to Mark how broken the car was, so we went out for a drive to warm up the engine so that we could diagnose the fault. It's not like we could fix it, but we could open the bonnet and scratch our chins like every good mechanic should. After a 5 min drive, the fault didn't show so we assume it's fixed now and it was all Martins fault for driving it in the first place. Clown cars have lasted longer than this one did once Martin had a go!
We had whale watching to do today, so walked down to the harbour. Some other people in our hotel were just getting in a cab as we left, and after our short 5 min walk we saw them at the whale watching place. I bet they wished they'd saved the £150 that taxi would have cost.
We checked in and we're given bright red waterproof warm outfits to wear, Keith and Stuart didn't like the idea of this and checked if they were mandatory or not as they were keen not to wear them. It was not mandatory but they wore them anyway.
We were 5 mins late leaving the dock as a couple of tourists were waiting for their friend who was late. Captain Ahab didn't want to wait any longer and as we were leaving the harbour we saw their friend running for the boat having a tantrum. We waved to her, but it didn't help her mood.
Disaster stuck Bubbles, his phone had stopped working and despite trying everything, he couldn't get it going again. He then spent the majority of the trip staring at his dead phone, we all mourned his loss.
It was pretty cold on the boat, but thinking about it, it is March and we're in the arctic circle out at sea, so it kind of made sense. On the way out of the fjord we were in we spotted some dolphins and way way way in the distance, Mark spotted a Minke whale briefly. We tried to find it again but it obviously didn't like us and had gone away.
After a couple of hours, all we'd seen was seagulls, in fact we'd seen so many it should be renamed 'gull watching tours' as it was all people were taking photos of. Most people had gone inside at this point and we'd turned to head back when Stuart and Mark spotted some more dolphins. We pointed and got up and a million people followed. Captain Ahab came to a halt and came out to ask Cederic what we'd stopped the boat for. FFS, they're meant to be spotting these things, and they ask us?
Another half hour and there was good news, Bubbles had got his phone working again, apparently it was just the brightness turned down. Mark called out to a Cederic to tell him the good news, but this shout alarmed everyone, who thought that he'd spotted something. So captain Ahab stopped the boat and everyone looked where Mark was looking to see what was going on. Just when Mark thought he was going to have to fess up, only a bloody whale showed up didn't it. Mark is now a whale spotting genius in most people's eyes.
We followed the Minke whale for a little bit until it got bored of us and then we shot back to the harbour. Obviously by this time it was raining again, we wouldn't want a day without some rain.
On the evening we thought that it was time to have a proper meal, so we found a nice restaurant except it was full as there was a massive queue. We drove around for a bit until we saw a place called "We Bloody Love Steak" and decided that was the place for us. Getting there involved going through some no entry signs and parking in a resident only place but it was for steak so it was allowed.
Great steak, good service and to top it all Cederic was very generous and paid for us all, thanks! Although at one point in the meal there was a burning smell, and we're not sure what that was but it's toast now. Cederic asked for salt and they gave us normal salt but also made us try liquorice salt too which was interesting.
After a long day of seagul watching we were all knackered, so time to sleep
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