After that hike, we walked back to Trøllanes and had to start heading back to the ferry.

However, another group of hikers told us about a neat little side trip we could do. Several sources had mentioned that Kalsoy had five tunnels on it, but we had only counted four in our drive (and since there's basically just the one road, we were wondering the discrepancy). It turns out, the last tunnel between Trøllanes and Mikladalur, Trøllanestunnilin, is actually two tunnels. About halfway down the tunnel there's actually an unmarked side tunnel that's really easy to miss. But sure enough, we found it on the return trip, and found ourselves looking at the uninhabited Djúpidalur ("Deep Valley"):



Why does an uninhabited valley get it's own secret side tunnel? Apparently, the steep slopes of Djúpidalur are prized sheep grazing, so when the tunnels got installed, they managed to lobby for the side tunnel so they could access the valley, doing so under the guise of it being an emergency exit from the main tunnel.

Down from the uninhabited valley is another valley and village, Mikladalur ("The Big Valley"), which is a pleasant little town.

Here, you can see remnants of an old boat lift that must have gotten heavy usage back before the road arrived:





One of the attractions in Mikladalur is a relatively new sculpture installed down on the beach: a selkie.

The selkie is a legend that some people sacrificed themselves to the sea and became seals, but once a year, on the Twelfth Night, the selkies are allowed to shed their seal skin and become humans again for a night.

Apparently there's a further legend on Kalsoy that at one point the villagers killed and ate the (seal) husband and child of one of the selkies, and the selkie placed a curse on the village that "some will die at sea and others fall from the mountain tops, until there be as many dead as can link hands all round the shores of the isle of Kalsoy!’"

In honor of that, the statue of a Selkie is built on the shore: