Tuesday Sea stacks and water fall

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Back on the coach for the journey to our beds. Back track from Saksun and then on towards Eidi. On the way, the group stopped and took a picture of the Fossá between Hvalvík and Haldarsvík - the highest waterfall in the Faroes. The river cascades some 140 metres over several rocky ledges into the sea. This mountain river is fed by several smaller streams and connects to a lake on top of the mountain.

We didn't go into Eidi, but headed up into the hills, passed a lake, and then stopped again to take some pictures of the of the twin sea stacks, Risin (75m) and Kellingin (73m), remnants, it is told, of an unusual attempt to tow the Faroes to Iceland by an Icelandic giant and his troll wife. Struck by the beauty of the islands, they laid a rope around Eiðiskollur, the north end of Eysturoy, but quarrelled for so long that they were caught by the rising sun and transformed into cliffs.

Here there is also the Lauren navigational system, not now working, taken over by GPS.

Water fall Fossá

Witch and the Giant

Witch and the Giant