Two days turned into 4 days on Ystiklettur since the waves were too high to get on the boat to Elliðaey. I was quite bummed not to get back there since I want to work with the storm petrels (stromsvölur) again. But instead we used the last two days catching Fulmars (fýll, Fulmarus glacialis). Jacob was very brave and brilliant in catching them, both with his hands and with a pole :) Fulmars are very beautiful birds even though their vomit stinks really badly... My favourite bird I have handled so far was one of the fulmar females. She was so calm and beautiful, we got lots of amazing photos of her which I will put here soon. I completely fell in love with the species and hopefully will have the chance to work with them again. We climbed down Ystiklettur yesterday with tons of luggage, one wrong step and we would have tumbled down the steep path and probably broken something, a camera or a neck. Having garbage bags hanging down the big backpack made everything very unstable, but we went down slowly and it was fine. I was very happy to get down though and very very happy to finally have a shower. This time the toilet was working in the hut but not the shower... The Ystiklettur adventure chapter of my life is now finished since Jacob left to Spain this morning and on Monday the big puffin project awaits me.
Now I am enjoying the fishermans-weekend here. Lots of activity and today there was a boat race, pillow fight on a pole over the sea, and at least 30 crazy Westmanislanders jumped in the freezing water.