ICELAND DAY 2 (Vík > Höfn)

We intended on seeing this plane wreckage the first day but it was a two mile headwind walk. It was 11pm, the light was dusky and

were were delirious from no sleep and travel so we backtracked the second day. Glad we did because that walk was miz!!=”

“In 1973, a United States Navy DC plane ran out of fuel and crashed on the black beach at Sólheimasandur, in the South coast of Iceland.

Fortunately, everyone in that plane survived. Later it turned out that the pilot had simply switched over to the wrong fuel tank.”

It was both very apocalyptic and also “Lost” feeling. I was searching for Jack and Sawyer everywhere but I guess that’s good I didn’t find them

because wouldn’t that mean I was dead?

Cold and irritated faces from the strong winds.

It was one of those walks where every time you looked up, I swore the water or cars were further away! So hard to gauge depth in flat lands.

This image was the way back and don’t be deceived. We all did NOT walk together anywhere! Usually Jim was in front, Adam 50-100 yards behind

him and then Jess and I another 100 yds behind Adam. We were always like, what’s the rush? And the boys were all, peace, see ya at the top.

Another rare occurrence of a warning and chained area up at the lighthouse. There was the craziest wind ever. I’m pretty certain it could have

blown 100lb Jess off the edge if she got too close.

Camouflaged a.Pace.

These Basalt rock formations were only in a few random places on the island and I just had so many questions as to why it wasn’t more places or

why it only happened on certain beaches/mountains??

Reynisfjara waves had the strongest undertow in Iceland. We played it safe by listening to the sound of the crashes, we knew the water was angry

and we shouldn’t be stupid. No thank you, a cool wave shot isn’t worth my life. This beach has claimed plenty of tourist’s lives but like I said,

there’s no warning signs anywhere! Thankfully Adam did his homework and we also aren’t idiots, unlike a lot of tourists we saw.

A few different times we drove through lava fields as far as the eye could see. I half expected the rocks to start shaking and rolling then turn

into Kristoff’s troll family from Frozen.

In the left bottom third you can see my pink jacket that shows the crazy scale of this canyon.

Fjaðrárgljúfur not far from the village of Kirkjubæjarklaustur. I straight copied and pasted that sentence, it’s real.

I did feel a little scared here because I was still not used to the 350ft cliffs.

Just driving to our next coordinates and pulled off to walk about 20 yards to these small and beautiful falls!

There were times we could actually see the destination on the journey there but that wasn’t often.

Glacier beach was really cool. Giant chunks of the the nearby glacier would break off and drift onto the beach like parked cars. All of them were

different. Some crystal clear, others foggy and some even blue.

This place was featured in two James Bond movies! I really had no idea how many places in Iceland were used for movies/shows until this trip.

Amazing.

Jokulsarlon was the Glacier Lagoon where the massive chunks floated just off the tip of the glacier in the distant left.

Isn’t everything just so gorgeous?

Hope you’re enjoying the images! It’s a shame that they really do the magnificence zero justice. God has created so much enchanted beauty to

be seen that with each trip, the hunger to see more is overwhelming! Happy Monday! Heart, Melanie & Adam.