This post features student writing and photos by Simon and Rory.

In the morning, we stopped at a local fish farm to learn about sustainability in the fishing industry. First picture above is arctic char at the farm. The goal weight for these fish was 1.5 kilos, which is about the size they’re at. It takes two years to grow to that size. The second picture is one of the pools from the arctic char farm we visited. This farm makes up 2.6% of the global market share!

After the fish farm, we drove to the family’s sheep farm to learn about the process of raising lambs for their skin with wool. There’s a long process for cleaning and preparing the skins, including multiple soaks in water and acid.

Purchases from the shop at the sheep farm! We all had a lot of fun there.

Right before lunch, we stopped at the Icelandic monster museum to learn about some local monsters.

On our hike to the Dynjandi waterfalls, we passed the word of the day: Göngumannafoss, meaning walker’s waterfall.

Then we stopped at a secret Viking museum because it was owned by a friend of our driver Thor. As part of the Viking museum experience, we all dressed in traditional Viking wear and had a great laugh. We also enjoyed spelling our names in the Viking alphabet and cooking traditional bread over the fire.

We traveled through several Icelandic tunnels to get to Isafjordur. It is hard to explain what the tunnels are like—you will just need to visit to experience them!