Lake Myvatn

Today was our first day in Myvatn.   Our plan to wait for the weather paid off nicely.   It was a beautiful day today, sunny and high 50s, nearly 60.

The only thing that makes it less pleasant to be outside are the bugs.  They don’t bite, but they are swarming everywhere. Some people are wearing face nets.   I think the eventual answer is to just become one with the bugs.  Sage seems to have already done that.

We drove around the lake to a short walk at Skútustaðagígar.  The walk is among pseudocraters.  There are lots of birds in the lake and the pseudocraters are interesting, as they look like craters like the many here where lava has come up out of the earth.   These however were formed as hot lava flowed along the land and over a lake or water.    It covered the water (we don’t quite understand how) and heated it up turning it to steam which bubbled through the lava creating a big bubble that resulted in these craters.   It’s cool to imagine this happening over the land.

From there we drove along the lake to another lookout spot where Sage napped while Steve and I worked out. It was beautiful and also sunny and warm.  Sage woke up and played and we called Grandma and Grandpa.

Then on to Kaffi Borgir at the Dimmuborgir lava fields where we sat outside and enjoyed the soup and bread buffet.     There were three soups, but the curry coconut was the best.  Steve is wrong in thinking the Icelandic meat stew was better.  Fortunately the van is big enough for our differences in soup preferences.

Full on soup and bread, Sage and I napped while Steve hiked to the top of Hverfjall, a real crater nearby.

Then we wandered around the lava field at Dimmuborgir.   All of the tours that had been there at lunch had left so it was much quieter, which was nice.  We did the longer 2.8 mile hike through the lava field with views of the mountains and lake Myvatn.

Then home to the campsite for dinner.  Yum!