Despite spending the better part of the day sitting in lovely coaches and mini buses, it takes it outta of you! Say nothing for eating service (gas) station food mostly! So another photo heavy post. Some day, I may come back and spell the heck out of Icelandic to help y’all!
This is a water fall you can walk behind… and get drenched!Pretty day postcardComing up alongside itThrough on the other sideOver one shoulder is water the other is the walking path behind the waterfall. It used to be a sea cliff, back in the stone ages or some time a VERY long time ago. Our guide was a geologist, so we learnt a heap!So remember this – when all the Europe flights were disruptedHere’s the now dormant volcano, it’s to the top left of the last red roofTransition of the ass all down the mountainAnother ‘foss’ or water fall… (Skogafoss Waterfall)Before taking the waterfall photo, I noticed these sheep. Only in the past week have sheep (and cows) come out of stables. And with it, all the lambs. Watching them cross was so cute!Black sand beach with basalt cliffs – fricking FREEZING as I ate lunch on a rock… Reynisdrangar sea stacksThe rocks are fokeloric – when trolls are hit by sun light, they become stone, so they are trolls – from the town of VikVik church. Vik is the most South most town in Iceland, then it’s lava fields. I spoke to a cashier – sounded SO British, but he was French – so curiousCarins are built as a way to ensure safe travels eastward…Lava fields – the moss takes 80 years to grow. It has to wait until the lava cools of course. It dies from footfall, and goes brownI was curious as to how thick the moss was – WAY deeper than common moss in Australia!Weather is so changeable in Iceland – this is our first glimpse of a glacier. We learnt what a glacier was – it’s compacted ice, losing all the air. 6m of snow ends up compacted to 50cm!What a glacier – we’ll hike on tomorrow.Gob smackingly gorgeous glacier lagoon (save for blustering rainy cold weather!) JokulsarlonThere were both ducks and seals in the water. I took a video as some of these ice pieces were moving int he current.The guide was so kind to wait til the other people were out of frame… Whilst I bemusingly smirked
We are staying in a guest house, and it was WONDERFUL to get a hot meal. I’d just subsisted the past nights, with a cold noodle salad. The price was eye watering, but thankfully a huge serve (even the Americans thought so!).
