The ferry turned out to be quite comfortable. We had a small two-birth cabin with bunk bed and a private shower/toilet. The seas proved to be pretty smooth with only a gentle swell to test our sea-legs, and had we needed it a number of cafe/restaurants provided a range of food (we brought our own with us).

We arrived at the disembarkation port of Seydisfjordur close to the scheduled time of 9:30 and since Iceland is a country there is some level of customs inspection to be completed but no immigration processing as Iceland is part of the Schengen group. Also, as we would eventually find out the local police also wanted to photograph all "offroad looking " vehicles and get copies of the identification papers of drivers of such vehicles. The purpose was to be able to track down drivers that miss behave on the famous Icelandic mountain tracks.

All this formality, plus the small dock area, led to total chaos in the unloading process with five lanes of vehicles trying to perform a 180 degree turn and converge into a single lane at the same time.

We spent some time in Seydisfjordur (S12) getting some local cash ( 1 Iceland Krona = US$ 0.0075 ) and checking out the supermarket before heading out of town.

I need to explain the S12, Nina read somewhere that the Icelandic names are so difficult for visitors that the common practice is to reference places by using the first letter of the name followed by a number which is the number of additional letters in the Icelandic name. So therefore Seydisfjordur becomes S12.

Once on the road it did not take long to be wowed by the scenery, and to realize that we were going to have days with perpetual light (the sun actually sets but it does not get dark) and relatively short distances to drive. After ambling along for a few hours and covering less than 50 miles we stopped for the night on a flat area on the banks of Lagafljot a picturesque lake with snow capped mountains at each end. Late in the day we were joined by another Unimog camper.