After the excitement of our first full day on Honstrandir, things did settle down a little bit over the next few days. Sunday was quiet for most of the morning so we decided to have a wander down to the beach again in the afternoon to see if we could get lucky with any foxes using it as a convenient highway. We settled down and after a while could see a bank of snow rolling in from the top of the fjord towards us. We hunkered down to wait it out and were rewarded with some nice images of Peggy (as we'd decided to call her) working her way through the snow towards us. Later on that evening, we chanced upon a fox eating the remains of an eider duck; possibly, we thought, the same fox and duck we'd seen yesterday.

We had some more great encounters over the next few days and as time went on we concluded that we were regularly seeing four distinct individuals -

Peggy (female, dark fur and who we noticed has a slight limp), Titch (small and probably quite young, and very curious), Ducky (lighter coloured, and the one who was sporting the eider duck) and Spooky (darkish fur, but always seemed to be very cautious and not as happy to come close as the others)

Overnight from Sunday into Monday the wind really picked up and there was a huge dumping of snow and we awoke to drifts outside the house. We had another nice encounter with Titch down on the beach on the Monday and then later on Tuesday we had a proper dose of Icelandic winter weather hit us, with a really intense snowstorm. Fortunately, there were enough periods of calm to generate really nice spindrift which gave us some great images.

Our all-too-short time on Hornstrandir was coming to an end, and it would soon be time to pack up and get ready for the journey back to civilization...