Volcano

Just went to the center of the earth.

Crater

Climbed a staircase to see a crater. Steph is that speck way down at the bottom. 

Caves

We went into a cave created by lava tubes.  It was a climb down a spiral staircase into darkness.

Sauðárkrókur to Grundarfjörður

Our plan was to see seals at a seal breeding colony, visit the farm where the murders in the book Burial Rites took place and then to drive down to the Snæfellnes peninsula.  We missed the turn off for the seal colony but instead went to Hvammstangi, the seal centre of Iceland.  We stopped in a small coffee shop where we were told the seal breeding colony is on the other side of the peninsula.  We knew that.  Then we asked about the farm.  The man serving the coffee was the GREAT GRANDSON of the man who dug up the bodies of Agnes and the other executed person and dragged them by horse to the farm at Illugastaðir to rebury them at a church!  We felt like we had met Agnes and so skipped the extra hour of driving up to the farm.

This was a long driving day so we decided to take a short cut.  We veered off the Ring Road and ventured on side roads.  We then drove 120km on gravel roads in the middle of nowhere to get to Stykkish, a small town on the Snæfellnes peninsula where the ferry leaves for the West Fjords.  Here is a picture of us at the windy lookout:

Husavik to Sauðárkrókur

Another sweltering day in Iceland.  20c and sunny.  We stopped at godafoss, the waterfall of the gods.  Then on to the big city of the North, Akeyuri, where we had lunch and a walk.  Back on the road we drove over a mountain range, through farmland and ended up here in some unpronounceable town.  Just before getting here we stopped at a turf house that was lived in until 1947.

Husavik day 2 continued

So, the 6 km hike only took us until noon so we had to continue our adventures with a little drive up north to a small museum. It was a lovely old house from 1930 on a family farm.  We had a chance to talk to a local and learned quite a lot from her.  The children are bused to school until age 16 and then they go to boarding school for high school. 

She highly recommended whale watching so...

Husavik day 2

Today was a no travel day.  We started with a 6 km walk up the mountain behind our apartment.  The mountainside is covered In lupin.