Wednesday, September 24, 2014

sixth day

Today was our last day on Suduroy. Our flight leaves tomorrow morning and taking the ferry would be too risky because the schedule is not very reliable. We packed the evening before so this morning was not any different. But I developed a cold during the night and was sniffing the whole day.
We went to Hov again with two others and to the lighthouse again. There we found the remains of a computer and several shot gun shells. Apparently it's a sport to shoot at birds and old computers before dumping them in the ocean. We took the scenic route back to Hov over the mountain ridge. It was very pretty!
Then we got picked up and brought to the ferry. The ferry ride was very relaxing (we stayed inside). In Torshavn we had to wait for a while to be picked up and then arrived at a very nice youth hostel, where the local team lived.

However, things weren't very well organized. Another lady from L.A. had to spend the night as well because her flight left even earlier. We were told that there were two empty beds, one in a girls' room and one in a men's room, I would have to sleep on an air mattress. We had to wait for everyone to arrive, because each room only had one key (for 6 people). When they finally showed us the room it turned out that it had been open for a while, since one of the girls was already there. But of course there was no empty bed, because the team leader had forgotten that another girl arrived the day before. But there was one spare mattress (a real one). Since the girls room was very noisy and full of stuff mom and the other lady stayed in the men's room and I slept on the floor on a very narrow air mattress in the girls room. Mom slept halfway under a table to leave some space on the floor for the others to able to move. Naturally I couldn't sleep because my nose was either running or stopped up. Supposedly the hostel management did not want to rent out another rooms to Sea Shepherd and even if we had wanted to pay for our room ourselves they wouldn't rent out any other rooms. Seems like a very bad attitude for doing business.
Our accommodation in Suduroy was definitely much nicer!
We got up again at 5:30 and were able to get a ride down to the ferry terminal and took the bus back to the airport. I'm so looking forward to sleeping in my own bed and taking a nice hot shower!!!

2 comments:

  1. I have enjoyed reading all your updates. So glad the whales were safe while you were there. Too bad you got cold!. Safe travels.

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