7. Saksun

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Day 7.

Saksun is in the northwest of the Island of Streymoy. We arrived there in a wet and foggy day. The views were limited by the fog, but the fjords and inlets of the northwest coast were still memorable. Along a small road a bit up the hill there were some houses and vacation cottages. And in the small creeks passing through the cottages and eventually dropping down the gorge into a wider stream were monkeyflowers. Here we saw again Mimulus guttatus, only the second time we recognised it in the Faroes. But we also saw in the same population the copper-flowered hybrid.

 

This was our last stop in what was an amazing trip. That evening we had a beer to celebrate in Tórshavn, and explored a few other touristic sights in town and around. The next day we headed back to the airport to return the SUV, and board the planes that would take us back first to London, and finally Scotland.