13 sept Arrived on South coast Iceland

We felt sad to leave Vestrahorn and Hofn, we enjoyed this east coast area.

Off we set filling up petrol at Hofn and again on the A1 route.

Our first stop was at a museum coffee shop. We went there last year  and this time we entered the museum with headphones explaining about life in poverty in this area at the start of 20 century. It was about the life of famous Icelandic writer/poet . 8 people slept here in 4 tiny beds!

 

Sooner than anticipated we were at the glacier lagoon, jokulsarlon. It was not too cold, mind you we were wrapped up with scarves hat and gloves and our backpacks kept our backs warm!

There were loads of icebergs calved off the glacier and lumps of ice from the icebergs floating at the edges. Amazing… the ice then is swept along the icy watery river into the sea at this point.  Large pieces of ice wash up by the tide onto the black sands. This is diamond beach. We will return there tomorrow.

Leaving the lagoon we continued down the A1 and came across a stopping place by part of the glacier. (Fjallsjokull.) You can walk right up to the pool created by the melting glacier. Again there was floating icebergs and ice everywhere. The rain started falling but we did not care, we were having such a good time. Can you see the heart shape the glacier makes.

We passed other side roads to the glacier that we want to explore tomorrow. We are now at skaftafell

hotel. Looking at skaftafellsjokull glacier. Nearby we saw this rainbow, so pretty…

The huge glacier on top of the mountains is Vatnajokull. Each part off the glacier as it descends down valleys has different names.

We have television here so can watch a film tonight for a change., although still reading my book Alex xxx