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Published: June 13th 2016
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We arrived in Iceland at 11:40pm and made it to the guest house with everyone in bed by 1:30am. Best way to describe the night is like 8pm in Salem during the summer with clouds all night. Eye mask and melatonin made the night well. Our guest house was built by the current owners' grandfather who was a fisherman in Gardur.
Up and at 'em at 8:30am (4:30am east coast time).
After a delicious bit of chocolate cake, tea, coffee, crackers and toast with jam or Nusica, we headed for the next stopping place - Kirkjubaejarklausfur.
We took the southern route to Grindavik. Beautiful serene landscapes mostly devoid of trees. Volcanic rock and old lava flows spilled down the mountains to the north of our drive and the Atlantic crashed into cliffs to our south.
We stopped at Eyrarbakki for bathrooms and a picnic lunch at a park dedicated to the fishing industry in that village. After everyone had determined that the wind made lunch colder and yet with no wind it was warm and sunny we packed it in and headed on our way. We did discover a new chip - bacon with no bacon just
flavors. The kids were so excited - that's what we get for telling them to pick something that we'd never tried.
Which is when the British speaking navigation system was a little nutty. Our fearless driver (Mike) followed it and we ended up on a gravel one lane road. We passed a homeowner harvesting what looked like rhubarb, two beautiful swans near a creek, and .... promptly ended up at two barriers at the end. On the other side of the barriers was Road 34. So after laughing hysterically and doing a 8 point turn, we headed back into the village and down a road lined with street lights. Of course within 2km of the car racing along at 90kph Judith realized her door was open and we spent the next bit laughing and holding the door closed while we waited for a pullout to come along.
After that things slowed down. We visited Seljavallalaug waterfall. Here we captured amazing rainbows and walked behind the waterfall.
Next came Skogafoss - one of the highest waterfalls in Iceland. Legend has it that Thrasi hid a chest of gold behind it. Not only did we find his gold -
Emma and Noah captured a leprechaun and nabbed his double rainbow gold.
After that we realized that it was almost 5pm and so in Vik we visited the grocery and then a black sand beach. There we saw Reynosdrangur - a cluster of sea stacks believed to be trolls that got caught in the sunlight.
Myrdalssandur was our next journey across the black lava sand flats. Of course we had explained to Emma that when the volcano Katla erupts quite often this area is covered in a glacial flood. So what does Emma do - sits in the back and video blogs about the impending death as this volcano is overdue to erupt. Go figure!!!
We've now arrived at our Eldhraun Holiday Home cottage with hot tub, loft room with beds, and Arctic terns. Needless to say Emma just realized that the birds are Terns, not Turds.
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Greg
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beautiful
Beautiful pics of the falls, I can only imagine how cool they were to see in person!