Iceland day 8

Today is another longer day on the road we will be traveling about 115 miles. We are heading back to Reykjavik for our final night in Iceland 😭. along the way we will stop for a final hike to another natural hot spring on the Hveragerdi hiking trail. After our hike and hot springs soak we will continue on to our hotel and exploring a bit more of the city. The first part of our hike was pretty cool with active geothermal vents and a small stream running alongside the trail. 

The trail continued along and old cattle Ranch Road through the foothills with beautiful views and some small streams

After cresting a hill, we walked parallel to a ravine with a river running below that had some beautiful water cascades

We can send on and soon arrived at our destination. The Hot Springs, which has area is perfect for lounging in the water.

After some relaxation, we hit the trail again, going back through the Greenfields past some goats back to the car

We stopped by one of the thermal vents that had created a sulfur mud pool. We scooped some up that Alyssa plans to use for facemasks back at the hotel.

We arrived at our hotel in Rejovich as I was getting my luggage. I realized I did not have my passport! I searched through all my stuff looked through the center console of the car and could not find it the last place I knew I had it was checking out of our hotel in Vick. I called the hotel and sure enough they had it at the front desk. I guess I get to explore a little bit more of Iceland‘s countryside when I make a 230 mile round-trip to go pick it up. A few hours later with passport in hand, I returned to meet up with the group and explore a little bit of the city we walked by many of the colorful shops and the harbor side, all glass, opera house

I mentioned the sulfur mud. Alyssa had gotten. Dave and I Decided to be team players and a partook in the face masks. Somehow, we convinced Dave to go down to the front desk of the hotel and ask some random question wearing his face mask. Impressively the Hotel staff did not bat an eye and acted as if there was nothing odd about him

Once again, a great end to another fantastic day, and an end o a fanatic trip. We fly home in the morning.

Iceland day 7

 We started today at another amazing beach with black sand, a steep rock face comprised of hundreds of volcanic post piles, and a shallow wave carved cave.  We are hard to see with  dark clothing, but are standing mid wall on the post formations. off in the distance are rock formations rising out of the sea with nothing else around.

The opposite direction has a view of a cliff face with a tunnel rock in the distance.

Leaving the beach to our next destination, we passed by another beautiful countryside church The architecture appears to be common for churches in the area

We arrived and another ocean side vista area. we walked along some coastal cliffs with more amazing views. We also saw another puffin. 

We got back in the cars to head to another destination, but took a short detour to stop at one of the churches and get some closer pictures. Scenic view from the church hillside are amazing.

Our next adventure will be another paid excursion. We are traveling to another glacier where we will be doing a hike through some ice caves. As the glacier melts water Flows through the crevices and carves out large tunnels that we are able to walk through. As with some of the previous pictures, it looks like we are on rock at times, but it is all completely ice as the glacier moves down the mountain side. It picks up small pieces of gravel, which are suspended in the ice given the appearance of rock.

Our group was fortunate on this outing. Our guide informed us this last cave section was just opened up ad completed for walking thorough this morning.

Not only is the ice cave cool, but the glacier melt river carving its way through the ice is incredible was well.

The glacier and ice caves were amazing. God is so cool in his creation and imagination. I find myself in awe often when in nature.