We got to Grindavik, SW Iceland yesterday. Took 4 days from Tassilaq. No drama. It was very cold as we crossed the East Greenland current the first night. Motored half the time. Saw a sperm whale asleep as we sailed past. Passed many shoals of pink shrimp,the seas red with them.

No storis (Danish term for the vast ice fields flowing SW off the East Greenland coast from the polar basin). Just a lot of individual bergs scattered around. The storis is rapidly becoming a casualty of anthropogenic global warming.

Josh left this afternoon to catch his flight out of Keflavik International to Boston to begin the next phase of his global tour, a sail from Woods Hole to Cape Breton.

Today is a national holiday - nearly everything is closed. Tomorrow we top up with food, diesel & water, then we head off from here straight for Ireland. Around 750 NM - should take 7-8 days. May stop in at Inishkea North to visit my old friend, Brian Sweeney, who lives there,the solitary resident of the island. I visited him at the outset of this trip with Josh & Hue 7 weeks ago. I have taken to visiting him at the start & end of my trips north - rather a nice habit!

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