Geosea thermal baths

 Three hours on the boat and our guide tells us about places to eat in 

the town when we get back to harbor and points out the Geosea baths up by the lighthouse that we’re going to next, so we’re stoked to get back to harbor.  We hit the pharmacy to find some bug spray, wait for a table at a recommended restaurant because we want to eat outside.  I forget the European model of coming in for a coffee and staying for 45 minutes or so to drink said coffee, but when I’m waiting for a

table, I become that impatient American who wants people to get up and go.  We finally get a great table outside and order some delicious food.  I get seafood tagliatelle that is amazing, Oscar loves his fries, and John gets mussels, but is disappointed in how many don’t open for him.  But we have sustenance for the baths and it is perfect timing for us to move on to the baths.  Geosea is another geothermal bath, but it’s warmed sea

water, not the milky mineral rich stuff that the Blue Lagoon and Myvatn have.  You can see through this water easily and the baths overlook the artic sea.  While we can’t play Marco Polo like we could

at Myvatn by just going underwater where you couldn’t see anything, we explore all the different parts of the pool to find the warmer and cooler spots.  Drinks are available and this time our bracelet keeps track of any charges unlike Myvatn where you had to bring your credit card out into the pool with you and Oscar is stoked about their slushy called “Krap”.  We make the obligatory jokes

about how the Krap is great “no crap” and enjoy watching for whales from our clifftop perch high above the sea.  We watch the whale watching tours go out and in from the harbor.  We got to see a whale, but when I asked about puffins, the woman on the boat said that there might “be a few left”.  Well, Oscar has been seeing puffin stuff since we landed and he’s super excited about them.  I keep telling him that the Westman Islands in

    the south are our best chance, but now I’m wondering if we left it too late in the season to see puffins.  After a couple of hours in the baths, we shower and head out back to our farm house.  Brekka is made up of a whole bunch of cabins, so you have less people to deal with making noise.  I like this set up, but they won’t give us our food to take away from the dining room and there are too many people without masks in order to eat to make it a safe place for us to have a meal.  We try to take the meal outside on their deck, but we had forgotten about the midges.  So, our lamb meal is now more midge than lamb when you try to put a bite in your mouth.  I give up and take Oscar back to the room and John mows through.  This is the first time in Iceland we’ve been confronted with feeling unsafe in an environment and it’s frustrating.  We were also hoping that laundry could be done on this two night stay, but they charge $40 for a small load of laundry, so I spent all last night washing masks, socks, and then underwear in our tiny sink to hang up and dry today.  Well, it’s so wet on the entire island, that everything still feels a little damp even when we’re packing it up.  I take the blow dryer to help out on a few things and we head to our next stop.