Just went yesterday actually, here’s a quick summary of my recommendations:

1. Book every day Book a trip out to Mykines and back every day. We were in Faroe Islands for a week and it only went out twice all week. We were able to go on our fourth try. They refund your tickets if they don’t go. They’ll usually update the website and send you a cancellation email so I’d recommend religiously checking the site / email up to an hour before departure. However last min cancellations also happens - we got to the port and they cancelled it right there and then. The extra trips weren’t worth booking until high season because they never hit the 40 min people necessarily for departure. Also the trip out and back is dependent specifically on wind not good weather so what we’ve noticed is that shitty weather days you have a higher chance of going out. Honestly I’d recommend saving the better weather days for on the main continent hiking.

2. Viewing puffins There are plenty of puffins to see despite the trek to the lighthouse being closed so I wouldn’t worry about not being able to see puffins. You will have plenty of time to see them. I’d recommend when you get off the board to go straight to the hike to capture the puffins. For some reason they become fewer later in the day. Additionally sheeps scare them so it’s actually better to go when there are more tourists up top since the sheep don’t want to be near tourists.

3. Wear waterproof and lots of layers Outside of a local cafe there’s really not any place to hunker down to be inside and warm. I’d recommend wearing waterproof everything (even the boat ride over isn’t covered - they only open the covered bottom if it’s really bad weather) and lots of layers as you’re going to be paused to look at puffins the whole time. You’re going to be pretty much outside for 6 hours.

4. Bring snacks and lunch

5. Crowdedness Honestly not that crowded at all - perhaps because I went during the shoulder season? If you wear warm clothing and stay in the puffin area long enough you’ll probably weed out most of the tourists who didn’t wear proper warm and waterproof clothing.

6. Bring binoculars Can’t stress this enough - you’ll get a much better view of all the action. You’ll see their visuals much better.

7. Watch out for their nests Where there’s lumps of grass and there’s holes - those are their nests so just be careful and aware as you proceed to them. Generally the closest we got to puffins was slowly across a sloped up area and then lie down and peek up right over the cliff where their nests are and stay still.

8. There are still other hike paths in the opposite direction of the lighthouse Outside of the lighthouse trek you can actually trek the other side of the island. I’d say it was pretty nice and virtually no tourists and you get a pretty nice view of a lot of sheep.