Day Five in Iceland: part 1
For starters, photos from the puffin adventure last night. We read that puffins are most active in the evening, so around 10pm we headed away from our cabin to try to find them. The directions led up a very steep, very pot-holey dirt road to the top of a very, very high cliff. The wind was blowing harder than I’ve ever experienced before, and I’m from the Gorge! It was blowing in such a way that it very much wanted to push us over this very, very high cliff. So, we didn’t stay long, and I couldn’t take any good photos, of the birds, but we did see some! And the view was extraordinary. The sun had decided to beam through the clouds, and the black beach below was quite dramatic. So that’s the first few photos and the video here.
1: This morning we thought we’d try to see puffins one more time. This time, not on the cliff. Plus, this beach with the puffin cliffs also had MORE COLUMNAR BASALT! So that was cool! And it had puffins! In the video, they are only visible as a small and fast flitter high on the cliffs, but I assure you, they were there!
2: We stopped at a cave set into the hillside. The inside was blanketed in ferns hanging from the walls and ceiling. While sitting by the car eating lunch, some cows walked over the cave and checked us out for a while. Also, it had a “no human waste” sign. I can’t believe it was necessary to post that.
3: On to Reykjavik. This city of 200,000 people is immensely walkable, so we meandered around all afternoon and evening. We saw some pretty graffiti and murals and a sticker that says “Cash for your Warhol. And a slightly disturbing painting of a man cradling his instrument. Sitar, maybe? Anyway, after having worked on learning the ukulele for 5 weeks now, that’s totally me!
4: There’s a church on a hill in Reykjavik that’s modeled after COLUMNAR BASALT! We stopped to take some photos. Since we started this trip being tourists in New York, then were kind of locals in Gothenburg, and now we are back to being tourists, we’ve had a lot of opportunities to watch people pose for photos. Per has developed an extreme hatred (I don’t think that’s too strong of wording) for the arms wide spread pose. We’ve seen it quite a lot. I’m of two minds. On the one hand, if you spend so much time posing in “embracing the world,” or “contemplative,” or “#blessed” poses, perhaps you should do more of that in real life. On the other hand, it’s been shown that if your face makes a frown or a smile, your body responds by releasing hormones related to those emotions, so perhaps faking it isn’t so bad. Either way, it’s repetitive. So, um, annoyingly, I made Per take photos of me in all my favorite Instagram #blessed poses, until he burned out and couldn’t do it anymore. That’s true love for you right there. Oh, and we found artwork that demonstrates Per’s feeling when people make the #bliss pose! One grumpy silver statue next to a #bliss silver statue. Couldn’t be more perfect.
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