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The track followed the coastline in close distance, but the sea stayed inaccessible as the shore consisted of mostly vertical cliffs with around 10 to 20 meters of height. I drove almost 20 kilometres before I got the first opportunity to get down to the sea. Another narrow gravel road took off from the main track and led down to a little peninsula which forms a perfect natural harbour at its south side in a bay called Kálfshamarsvik. During the heydays of saltfish in the early 20th century a small settlement lay on the Kálfshamarsnes peninsula and accommodated fishermen and farmers.
The village has been abandoned in the 1930s due to the great depression and the Civil War in Spain where the vast majority of the salt fish was sold too. Nowadays there are only the foundation walls of the houses left, which are of very little interest. The modern lighthouse on the peninsula is quite nice but the main attraction are the basaltic columns that form the cliffs and little peninsulas in the area.
The sea was very calm, but one could see that the south-facing bay was very sheltered. Even with biggest winter storms there would probably only the tiniest waves reaching its cobblestone shore.
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