Day Six: Iceland

For dinner, when staying at the 66.12N campsite on the coast, the California’s I met the day before ended up making me some lamb and potatoes which was absolutely amazing. Had class while they were cooking, and they were sharing whatever extras they had.

Later that night, (or 1am this morning) I was spending time with the California’s and a couple from Germany. The German’s bought around 2lbs of horse meat for ~$8, and was cooking it on a disposable charcoal grill. I thought it was going to be raw by how little the charcoal was burning, but it worked! I had a few pieces of charcoal cooked horse, on an Iceland shore! It wasn’t great, and he ended up eating about 1.5lbs of horse meat by himself. It was a great time, just hanging around and talking, and we ended up deciding to clamber down a rocky shore, so we can say we touched the Arctic Sea! (I don’t know if it’s actually the Arctic Sea, but I’m going to pretend). Here’s a picture of us all, right on the coast!

Left to Right: Me, Neil, Jaine, Ashmir & Daniel Jaine & Ashmir are the Germans, Neil & Daniel are the California’s

It was a marvelous time, and after getting into my car for bed at around 2am (with the sun coming back up) I went off to bed.

Day Six

The next day, I made some PB&J with granola bar crumble and bananas for my friends as a way of repayment which were very good, and everyone seemed to enjoy them, and with the California’s spending the day at the Lake Mosquitoes, I made plans with the German’s who were leaving the 23rd, and also wanted to hike to the active Volcano and hit Blue Lagoon!

I split from there to Asbrygi with another gentleman I had met the previous night who was going clockwise around Iceland, and we ended up hiking to the lake and back instead of to the top of the canyon. It was an honest mistake, that led to us bushwacking on the side of the cliff, but the lake was beautiful.

After making our way out from there, we found the correct hike and did part of the hike, to see the view and go from there.

We went our own ways from there, but ended up meeting up again at the Godafoss Waterfalls again coincidentally, so we walked around there again, and once again, went our separate ways once again!

From there, I drove another few hours through Akureyri, considered the Capital of North Iceland, and to my campsite for the night. There were some beautiful mountains on the way over and reduced my trip to Reykjavik down to 3.5hrs.

At the campsite, I settled down, set up a COVID test in Reykjavik for my flight back to the US, and am headed to bed!

Observations

Just a few things I’ve noticed about Iceland

• It reminds me a lot of Idaho Idaho has some minor volcanic activity, and quite a few hot springs, many of the views when driving are along flat dry terrain, with massive mountains in the distance, and there are a lot of hikes, all of which are beautiful. It differs much more then it is similar, but it was nice to be reminded of home when on a long drive.

• SO many single lane bridges I guess it probably saves money, and there isn’t a huge traffic issue here, but yeah man sometimes those one lane bridges make me nervous when approaching from a blind hill.

Obligatory Bird Pics