day 06 was even more dedicated to covering distance than the day before. so we were driving along the northern coast of iceland all day long. hm... we didn't even stop for a waterfall once. wow. but we had to stop for sheeps[07-10] and horses[18-20]. the former because they were collected from all over the region to one central place where they later on get split up again, according to their label. this way each farmer gets back their sheeps again (if they had not died somewhere in the rugged landscape). so we witnessed a small sheep drive, where people on horses and with dogs collected all the sheeps. next was again a lot of driving, driving, and driving. we decided to go to vatnsnes to spend the night in a HI hostel. a few kilometres away from the hostel we saw a sign next to the road that had a seal on it. we stopped there, as our guidebooks said this is a good area for seal watching. so we got off the car, explored the local beach[41-83] there. it took us quite a while, but then we finally spotted one - a seal[80-81]. oooooh, sooooo cute. at first only i spotted it and told ninsti, but the seal had gone underwater pretty quick. thus ninsti didn't believe me at first, but then, after quite a while it came back, just as we had already decided to leave again. what a smart animal. shortly after that we arrived at the hostel, and the lady at the reception told us that right close to the hostel there's an even better place for seal watching, since there are hundreds of them lying around. oooh, if only we had known! but we will go there tomorrow, that's for sure. totally awesome things we spotted that evening/night: a calico cat and - again - northern lights! so absolutely wonderful...