I had remembered that there was a ferry leaving for Nolsoy sometime around 4:00 and since the weather was much nicer, it seemed like a good idea to go to make up for sunday. I left the university at around 3:40 and got on the Nolsoy ferry for 4:25. It would come for the return trip again at 6:20 and so I had a little while to walk around. The ferry was sort of interesting. No one was guarding it or accepting payment and there was somewhere to go down inside, but I wanted the view. The deck was nothing formal and was the old rusty, painted metal deck of what looked like an old fishing boat. We eventually got going and what is obscured by the hills around torshavn were reveiled the further out to Nolsoy we were. The people of Nolsoy have quite the view. The cold wind picked up a lot too on the open water but the water itself was so clean and clear; the bubbles in our wake were white and the water was a deep, icy blue.
Nolsoy is exactly like the pictures and it's a strange feeling actually being there. There's a nice but long hike up and across the mountain on Nolsoy but I didn't hae the time to do that. Just walking across from the harbor to the other side of the island had some nice smaller cliffs and constant crashing waves. There's not much on the island. There's a small school and a soccer field, a small general store and a craft store. I think there may be a guest house too. When the ferry arrived many people were waiting there but when it left, everyone dissapeared. It looked like the place was abandoned, except for a dog wandering around.
To waste time I walked as far as I could on the main road which led up to a farm house and turned around. I ran into a Danish lady who had come here on vacation and we talked for a while. She was on Nolsoy for a bird watching boat trip and wondered if I was too. Eventually it was time to go and I took the ferry back to Torshavn. This time someone went around and collected 40kr from everyone. A $7.00 trip in total.
