Destination: Snæfellsnes Peninsula
Time of Departure: 0600 hours
Time of Return: 1400 hours
Overall Assessment: It was a good time.
If you want more details I would recommend you check out Veronica's blog
A black church
Inside the church via pictures through the window since the church was locked
Grass covered outhouse. There was a toilet inside
A swing set in the middle of a lava field?
Photoshoot
Being the only people in this National Park on Easter Sunday, I felt like driving a little closer to certain monuments wouldn't hurt anything.
Wind
Lava arches being eaten away ever so slowly by salty waters
The pretty ocean from a cliff
The wind sweeping waves over the top of the cliff. Intense
The view of Snæsfellsjökull and our car from afar.
Lava columns. I wonder how they got there...
Veronica nesting on a thin cliff
Quite the sight from sea level
Hanging out underneath some lava arches
Beast-mode
Right before Veronica added two stones to the rock pile above. It's supposed to bring us good luck!
An ocean with crazy sharp black rock formations begging to be climbed
Flying?
A geologist's dream
What I survived on on every road trip I have been a part of: Bacon Chips.
Old Lighthouse - Another one of Veronica's 'favourite' things. She likes pretty much anything that is old and has to do with coastal living. A true Haligonian.
One of my top favorite places next to the hunks of broken glacier in the ocean. The yellow sanded beach is the perfect contrast of light and dark colors and walking along it feels like a scene from a movie. You can judge for yourself from the pictures below.
Iceland's closest thing to a McFlurry, one of the most underrated North American ice cream treats (that Iceland has taught me to appreciate)
This one is for all my soccer brethren out there. Pretty much every town, no matter how small, that we passed through had a straight up, legit, walled off outdoor soccer arena. It has wooden walls, fulled netted goals, turf, is well lighted at night, and FREE to use. Quite amazing considering no such thing is even remotely as functional or practical in Texas or Oklahoma and probably most states in the U.S. If I was a kid growing up in Iceland, I would have it made. Awesome soccer fields to train and become great in, outdoor heated community pools with hot tubs, slides, basketball goals and balls. I would have loved it. Hands down.
Some ship sculpture in Reykjavik we stopped at before we dropped off the car. It was a long and sometimes stressful 6 days, but it feels great to say we drove completely around Iceland, accomplished so much and got back in one piece.
Can't wait to do this some day in the summer when I come back to this place.....
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HIDDEN PHOTO UPDATE:
Soccer with the Erasmus (international) kids. Always a good time
