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Westfjords - Southern region

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Hi! For those of you who are wondering, Iceland has about the same square miles as Virginia. So imagine driving the circumference of Virginia with daily excursions to see the sights. Of course we are going slowly, over four weeks. Driving to the Westfjords on Friday was a long driving day. It started with 67 km (40 miles) of packed gravel road with not too much traffic but many one-lane bridges.  If you open this picture and zoom in you will see an example of the windy, crazy roads. We got to Budardalur and stopped for gas and carrot cake at the Leif Erikson house. According to legend, he was born in Iceland and moved to Greenland.  On a return trip back to Greenland he was blown of course and discovered North America, likely Labrador, several hundred years before Columbus. It is SUPER windy again! We have asked locals and they say this wind is crazy?!?!?! It is not us exaggerating! This makes the driving a bit challenging to say the least!  This is one of our longest dri...
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Snaefellsnes Peninsula

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Wednesday was WINDY like gusts up to 40 mph, sustained 18-20 mph. We had to be careful which direction we parked our car, you could really dent your neighbor's car if the wind grabs the door! We had a full agenda today. We started with Kirkjufell mountain.  We had pulled into the parking lot before we realized it was a pay lot. By "pay lot" I really mean "pay a lot"! Lesson learned, $11.00 and 15 minutes later. Ugh. Next stop was a quickie -Bugsfoss. Here you can start to get an idea of the wind. The wind is blowing the water up in the waterfall! Next stop Olafsvik. We saw the cool, triangular church. It looks like a ship from the front and a salted cod fish from above.  This waterfall was right outside of town. Baejarfoss. We saw lots of art in Hellissandur. This is Skipid. It is by the same artist who did the Sun Voyager in Reykjavik. This was on the side of the school. Another pretty mural of a Puffin It was a nice town, we took a short walk along the coast. ...
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