Day 8 of the Natural Wonders and Total Eclipse cruise

Well, the ship certainly did a little bit of rocking last night, and it was still rolling when we woke this morning, but not too badly, and the sea got calmer has the morning progressed.

Today we went and sat in on the photography lecture, and I'm really glad we did, I've started learning how to use my camera at last, after owning it for a good year already. I've learnt the settings I need should I get the chance to photograph the Northern Lights. I admit I took about an hour trying to work out to get the camera off "illustrative", (and I've no idea how I switched that on!), before I could start playing with shutter speeds and aperture size, but Hey Ho, it's all good fun.

So then it was Peter's art class, a bit later than usual, at 12 midday. He has about 20 regular's and then the rest of the Lookout Lounge is filled with people lounging with their ipads and tablets, books and knitting. As it turned out, they were also listening in on Peter's lesson. We know this because the whole lounge burst out laughing when one of the passengers got confused over the name of the oar rests on rowing boat........... They're actually called rollocks, but this lady got her r's and b's mixed up.

So after the class we took it easy, watching the world go by until we reached Reykjavik. We got there earlier than expected, at about 4ish. Peter and I decided to take advantage and walk to the old town. It's about 3 miles from the new harbour where Voyager is berthed, to the old harbour where we were headed. We took the easy path that followed the coastline and I can recommend it to anyone. The views were stunning!  It is about 3 miles though.

My destination was to reach a monument on behalf of my son.

He's a gamer, and he wanted me to get to a particular sculpture that had been erected in "honour" of the game of Eve. Apparently, every player that was registered on a particular day has their name carved into plates on this sculpture. My son wanted me to take a photograph of a particular plate with his gaming characters name on.

On the way, we passed various sculptures,

Briefly visited the amazing Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre.

The Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre looks amazing from the outside.

But he looks even more exciteing from the inside

Before reaching the site where my son had told me the sculpture was located. We found a sort of monument, but it didn't seem to have any relevance with online gaming, and certainly didn't have a load of plates with names carved into it.

We looked around the area again, which was essentially a building site, and gave up. We had to hurry back to the ship to get there in time for dinner, but the views across the bay were still spectacular.

After dinner, we decided it might be worth going out on deck to see if the Lights were going to make an appearance. They did, and I was able to put my new found camera knowledge to the test. I admit to a squeal of delight when I realised I'd managed to capture the glow.  I've still a lot to learn though, I took loads and loads of photographs, here is one of the two that were worth keeping.

Faint Northern Lights from the back of the Voyager whilst we were berthed in Rekjavik.  I have to admit that the camera sees much more than the eye.  To us they were almost invisible.  

Tomorrow we have a full day in Reykavik, and no escorting duties. It should be a good day.