From Grímsstaðir we’re heading north towards Raufarhöfn for supplying Árdís and Magga, our local station caretakers with new material for the coming seasons. The station is working fine, and we just need to re-tension the guywires by a tad. On this occasion we meet Pedro, the new station manager of Ríf, and agree that Konrad will explain the work in Raufarhöfn to the general public during a ‘coffee talk’, a recently estasblished format.
From Raufarhöfn we head back via Húsavík and Akureyri to Blönduós, from where we cotinue after a short night’s rest via Reykjavík and Selfoss to Vík in the south. The next day wo hop on the ferry Herjólfur for Vestmannaeyjar, depositing material for the currently stopped station of Stórhöfði North. As we have electricity problems here since the begining, we intend to install a solar- and wind-powered system in August. Later the same day we go east to Mýrar and receive a warm welcome from Pálína, our host. Also here we supply sampling material. And while Thomas does a short inspection of our station, Konrad picks up an optical particle counter from LBHI, inteded to go to the main field campaign.