Day Four in Iceland, part 2
7: The remains of the longest bridge in Iceland. All that’s left is twisted metal, which I had to climb on because it was there. It was destroyed by volcanic activity. Which is crazy.
8: We stopped to explore an abandoned thatch-roofed building. The outside was picturesque, the inside smelled of sheep and had roots dangling from the ceiling.
9: There’s a waterfall by the road that has such a small stream, and is in such a windy area, that the stream blows upwards! It’s right near a gigantic hole in the basalt, too, which was a bonus. We couldn’t get close, so the video is a little poor.
10: There is a small patch of leveled basalt columns, similar to the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, which I really want to go to someday. The columns here were smaller than I’d expected (1 star), but they showed a lot more variety than I’d thought happened. I’d thought they were consistently of the same number of sides. But no. Some have 7 sides, some are square, and one was even shaped like a heart!
11: It rained pretty hard yesterday, evidently, because parts of the road were flooded. Nowhere was all the way across, but when we came through yesterday before the rain, there was no water anywhere near the road level. The video and photos from the car show this ridiculous “desert” of moss-covered volcanic rock. It reaches as far as the eye can see, and is really incredibly huge. The streams and flood water were white, the moss was green, the rocks were black. And there were sheep grazing. Because the sheep are everywhere.
12: We are staying in a super cute, kind-of-tiny-house, cabin thing. After we got here, we went and looked for puffins, which is hard for me to type without capitalizing the P. We found some. It was amazing. I didn’t have my phone with me, so Per has the photos. I’ll include that in the next post.
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