Tegan's expressed wish in coming to Iceland was that she would see snow ! By decided midway though day 2 after having been windswept by snow blasts, frozen attempting to photograph waterfalls and slightly ill at ease with our occassional fish tailing antics on the icy roads she'd decided that she'd seen enough !
Rising early Tegan and I headed off to the Kirkjufell waterfall and mountain lookout arriving at 7.00a.m. thinking no sane person would be heading out at this hour in the cold ! Our still thawing jaws fell open when we discovered 4 other cars, one with two children that looked lije they'd slept the night here !
Thankfully the cars soon all departed and we trudged uphill on compact snow /ice with Tegan going 2 steps backward for every 1 step forward before finally reaching our partly frozen waterfall overlooking the stunning Mtn view. Satisfied that our camera framing was good Tegan then discovered that she'd left a lens behind having to traipse back to the car leaving me to freeze to death with even the hot chemical hand warmer she'd left behind going solid in the cold.
Eventually Tegan returned and together we snapped some cool photos before heading back to our accommodation with the heaters on full and self driving with my nose (not recommended) as I attempted to get feeling back in my hands !
Back at HQ Billy had done his 1, 000 morning star jumps whike Monika had prepared breakfast allowing us a civilized departure as we headed to Hosfos in Nthn Iceland over 350 kms away ! This was going to be a big day !!
Starting off we circumnavigated the incredibly windswept Sneafellsnes Peninsula with our hire car being battered by blinding snow winds. that threatened to physjcally lift us off the road !
Arriving at picturesque Arnarstapi we took a brief walk to the lovely coastal area to a lovely lookout area with Billy thinking he was competing in the Olympic Ice skating final sliding his way along the icy paths !
Driving to a lookout not far away we dragged out our sandwiches while Billy supposedly at our encouragement, unsuccessfully tried to start his own avalanche doing 2 and 1/2 somersaults down a steep snow slope (with rocks!) before bum planting having to quickly drop his dacks to remove snow and ice from his personal crevices !
Our journey became one off road endurance as we passed through lovely Stykkisholmur and then a series of isolated stretches to Blondous
At one point in the middle of nowhere I jokingly said this would be a crap place to brake down when suddenly the cars warning light came on indicating that one of the cars tyres was losing pressure ! Faced with changing a tyre in the sub zero conditions we drove on tentatively until all of a sudden the warning light thankfully disappeared ???
Our cross country driving took us over a number of snowy winding passes before we finally arrived after 6.00p.m. at the delightfully small town of Hofsos strangely famed for its breathtaking mountain framed infinity pool ! Checking in we soon established that either the entire town had all been abducted by aliens or thers was no one home - even our guesthouse was open, keys in doors and no one to be seen !
With the towns store closed as well as the towns only restauarnt Monika and Tegan rustled a goodish meal of leftovers in a microwave sufficient enough for us to survive till tomorrow when we take on the famous infinity pool !
Tonight is apparently looking good for the Northern Lights ... yipee !
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