NICEland (tee hee)

Iceland is a place of outstanding natural beauty -- really really incredibly gorgeous and unpopulated. We weren't there for very long, so after Reykjavik, we beelined it to the Snaelfesness Peninsula, which Cait, aka Vanna, is helpfully pointing out on the map below:





As soon as we hit the penninsula, beautiful things started popping out at us. When we saw this waterfall, we screeched the car to a halt and took about a billion photos because we were awed at how pretty it was.What we didn't realise, of course, is that gorgeous insanely cool glacier-fed waterfalls are a dime a dozen and stopping to take photos of every one of them is impractical. It would be like stopping to take a photo every time you saw a Tim Horton's in Canada, or taking a picture of every stretch of flat field you see in the Belgian countryside.



On our first day in the Penninsula we stopped in one of the biggest towns to have lunch. We bought everything from the grocery store, including Skyr which is this sort of thicker version of youghurt, whcih is also magically low fat. Those vikings can do ANYTHING.

Nice job on taking a photo of me with my mouth full, Andy.

This was a waterfall that came down right in the town where we stopped for lunch.
It was very very pretty.

Because we are fearless explorers, we decided to climb up it:

We had to ford streams, just like Maria Van Trapp! We were totally brave pioneer-types.

Harry is a professional phtographer, so he took lots of pictures:

I'm pretty sure his will be a lot better than mine:

We made it!




The view from the top was spectacular:

This is me, leaning over the precipice, taking a photo downwardly of the falls... Kind of didn't turn out, but it was quite frightening taking the photo, so I'm damn well including it.



Post-climb relaxing




My shins are GIGANTIC... fear them, tiny people of Iceland... Fear them.

Andy, indulging his inner-duck and wading in the stream.

This shot is interesting, because that white thing in the far distance is a GLACIER.

The town of Olafssun, where we had lunch. Only now we tower above it. Mwah ha ha!

Next post: Rotten shark! Feats of strength! Bone chilling cold!