Sep 8 – Finishing the South Coast

A long driving day.

Our first stop was the viewpoints to see Dyrholaey, a stone wall of an island with two arches.

The upper viewpoint is near a lighthouse.

A photosphere.

Farther west is a long black sand beach with huge waves crashing in.

I walked a bit inland to the cliff below to take a picture of where I had been standing above.

A photosphere.

To the east is the famous black sand beach called Reynisfjara, with its sea stacks and basalt column wall.

We didn’t stop there because we have seen lots of black sand and lots of basalt columns and didn’t feel like paying the near $10 parking fee for a short visit.

The lighthouse has a huge Fresnel lens.

At the lower viewpoint you could look back towards Dryholaey with even more crashing waves.

And east again to Reynisfjara.

Our next stop was the massive Skogafoss.

A photosphere.

Check out the tiny people beneath the falls.

There was a nice rainbow beside the falls.

We both walked up to get close to the falls.

A photosphere.

And got very wet.

I had read that if you climbed the around 340 steps to the top there was a good view.

It was not very good.

Jennie didn’t like the see thru viewing platform.

The best reason to climb up was to hike farther up the river where there are a string of large and small waterfalls. We didn’t.

Down we go.

Next was Seljalandsfoss, another huge waterfall that you can walk behind.

Again, for scale, check out the tiny people behind it below.

Lots of people posed here and got very wet.

Including me.

Behind we go.

A photosphere.

There was a side spray from the falls that with the wind just happened to land on the path to get out from behind.

The spray moved around a bit and everyone tried to time it. We both failed and got thoroughly soaked with very cold water.

There is a nearby waterfall that falls into a small slot canyon that only a few people can fit in at a time.

Seeing how many people were here I figured I wouldn’t get in but walk over anyway. I was right.

Back to the car.

And off to explore the Snaefellnes Peninsula that we had to abandon exploring earlier in our trip because of the terrible weather.

We are at a small campground in Arnastapi. Whereas the last campground had easily over 100 campers, here there were 8.