Changelog

The page called the three-metre wave a local rule of thumb. It is more than that: Vegagerðin, which owns Landeyjahöfn, publishes the figures it uses — a mean wave of 2.5 to 3 metres counts as a possible cause of disruption and above 3 metres as a cause, and 13 to 16 metres a second of wind as possible with above 16 a cause. Both are now on the page, alongside the third figure it cannot show you: the depth in the harbour mouth is published nowhere, and Herjólfur decides each sailing on its own.

The Herjólfur lands at Landeyjahöfn most days and at Þorlákshöfn when storms or sand shut that entrance, and the two mean very different days. The new page costs both of them out for Reykjavík, Keflavík Airport, Selfoss and Hvolsvöllur: the crossing plus the drive, the time you have to leave to make a sailing, and what Vegagerðin is reporting on each drive right now. Going to Reykjavík, a Þorlákshöfn day is about an hour longer. Going to Hvolsvöllur it is nearly three hours longer.

HSU takes urgent cases at its reception until 16:00 on weekdays, an hour after the clinic itself closes at 15:00. The page had been telling people to ring 1700 first from 15:00 — for that hour you can simply go in. Outside 08:00–16:00 on weekdays, and at weekends and holidays, calling 1700 first still applies. The HSU link now points at the Vestmannaeyjar page on island.is, since hsu.is has moved.

The summer timetable ends on 23 August, and until now the page had nothing to show after it — it sent you to herjolfur.is. It now carries Herjólfur's year-round almenn áætlun as well: seven sailings each way, every day, 07:00 to 22:00 from Heimaey and 08:15 to 23:15 from Landeyjahöfn. Added too: on a Þorlákshöfn reroute, bookings on the 07:00 and 17:00 from Vestmannaeyjar and the 10:45 and 20:45 from Landeyjahöfn move between the harbours automatically — you do not need to rebook, but you do need to know which harbour to drive to.

Type what you are holding — in English or Icelandic — and it says which bin it goes in, from Vestmannaeyjabær's own lists. It also carries the rules that catch people out here: bins within 15 metres of where the lorry stops, food waste in a paper bag, deposit cans back to Endurvinnslan rather than a container, and the reminder that a bin which blows away is the householder's liability.

It's pysjutíminn — the first pysja of 2026 was found on 8 August. The page gives the one thing that changes every night: when it actually gets dark enough for the birds to leave the burrows, tonight and for the next six nights. Beside it, the measured wind at Stórhöfði, because Pysjueftirlitið's own guidance says a strong northerly pushes the birds higher up into town. Then their guidance in full — where to look, how to keep one until morning, where to let it go, and never into the harbour. Register every bird you find at lundi.is: that count is the whole point of the patrol, and it is theirs, not ours.

The ferry page listed seven sailings each way at roughly two-and-a-half-hour intervals. The published summer timetable is eight each way on the even hours — from Heimaey at 07:00, 09:00, 11:00, 13:00, 16:00, 18:00, 20:00 and 22:00, and from Landeyjahöfn an hour later each time. None of the mainland times we had were right, so anyone using that page to catch the last boat could have missed it. The summer times now carry the dates they are valid for, 20 July to 23 August, and outside that window the page sends you to herjolfur.is rather than showing times we have not checked.

What Veðurstofa Íslands has in force for Suðurland right now, in its own words, with the wind over Heimaey. A warning is usually why a sailing is dropped, and it normally comes before the ferry company says anything.

Harbour Watch shows the wave height at the buoy off Landeyjahöfn, how high the water is standing at the quay, and the wind at Stórhöfði and Þorlákshöfn — read from Vegagerðin's own instruments, not forecast. It does not tell you whether the ferry can get in: the sea level at a gauge is not the depth of the channel, and that depth is not published anywhere live. The page says so, and points at the people who do know.

A colored-pencil banner of Heimaey's fishing harbour, with the town along the shore and the 1973 Eldfell cone rising over the eastern edge where the streets meet the lava.

Heimaey, in the Vestmannaeyjar islands, is now on Town Tools. Because the Herjólfur ferry runs everyone's day, it opens with live crossing conditions — the wind and waves between Heimaey and Landeyjahöfn, in plain words — alongside the published ferry schedule (with the last boat home worked out from your clock, the resident discount, and the Þorlákshöfn reroute), and a who-to-call card with the after-hours health line. A puffling-season tally and a live which-harbour indicator are on the backlog.