After our late night, David got up before 9am and photographed the tidal pool that we could see from our campsite. We got a mid-morning start with the goal of taking in the scenery along the Eastfjords coastline on our way around the Ring Road. We stopped for photos of lots of birds, scenic vistas and pretty fishing villages.
We arrived in the pretty town of Djupivogur at around 1:30 pm. They advertised the availability of a public WC from more than 20 kilometers away, admonishing people not to pee in the wild 😉. The harbor was small and very pretty. We visited a nearby gift shop, which had lots of bird carvings. The shop clerk said her relative who sourced the bird carvings tried to make sure they were accurate. She suggested we go birding at the barely-used airstrip by the shore. (She had never seen a plane land there.) We did some birding at the airport, seeing a Red-throated Loon, Red-necked Phalaropes, and the ubiquitous Arctic terns and Redshanks. We were in the area until around 3 pm.
We continued our drive stopping for photos near Berufjör∂ur at around 4 pm and at man-made jetties in the harbor of the town of Sto∂varfjör∂ur at around 5 pm. Just before 6 pm, we stopped again at a very short, rectangular orange lighthouse near a group of old cellar holes and an almost-abandoned house. (Rectangular lighthouses are the typical design.) We weren’t sure at first if it was private land, but the lighthouse was too inviting and there were paths to follow out to the cliff edge. There were no signs, but Google Maps named this Hafnarnes Lighthouse.
The Ring Road turned inland after this fjord. The ridge of snow-capped mountains looked intimidating, but the road went through, not over, in a 6-km tunnel. We came out on the south shore of Rey∂arfjör∂ur. We drove around the end of that fjord to the campground in Fjar∂abygg∂. This nice campground was busy with larger RVs. The showers, outdoor sinks, laundry room, and WCs were all good.
We ate dinner and took a walk around the campground area taking photos from the hill above and of the birds in the man-made pools. We decided to take advantage of the nice laundry facility so we walked to the gas station store and bought cookies so we could get coins for the laundry. There was no staff at the campground, and since we left early-ish the next morning we never met anyone to pay.