Today was beautiful… Clear, sunny, highs in the mid-50s. A bit windy in places, but not everywhere. We woke up, Steve ran, we ate breakfast and stopped at the only supermarket on this end of the peninsula. Then we drove into the Snaefellsnes national park and hiked the Raudholl loop. It was gorgeous. We walked…
Yesterday we drove into the Snaefellsnes peninsula. We marked on a map all of the places we wanted to stop… Waterfalls, cliffs, caves, pools. Our plan is to drive around and see them all and then when we are done, take a ferry to the Westfjords from Stykkisholmur to Brjanslaekar with a stop at Flatey…
Yesterday we got up and drove out to see the puffins on the far end of the island one last time. Steve ran there as Sage and I drove. It looked like the kind of run you’d see as an option on my treadmill. There were lots of puffins, confirming our suspicion that the morning…
What a great day. After breakfast we drove to a bird watching hut that we had learned about on yesterday’s afternoon boat tour. It is a small hut with indoor and outdoor viewing of a cliff side with hundreds of puffin burrows. On the cliff we saw tons of puffins. Sage can very clearly say…
We woke up this morning and drove to a nearby lookout for breakfast. Then we drove to the end of the island and hiked around looking at the cliffs, the birds and sheep. We met another couple with a little girl that was 15 months. There were a lot of people at first, but once…
Yesterday we woke up and drove to a hike from the ring road. It was beautiful. We saw a few people as we arrived and a few on the way out, otherwise it was just us and birds and sheep along the whole valley. We walked for about 3.5 miles round trip. The trail followed…
Yesterday was too rainy to hike around Porsmork again, so we took an earlier bus out. We’ve had a lot of rain the last few days. However in retrospect, we’ve been here for two weeks and only had two days where we had to change our plans because of weather. And even then we found…
Today was a beautiful day here in Porsmork. We woke up to nicer weather, no rain and dry clothes! We got ready and headed out the hike we had intended to do yesterday – about 8 miles total. Just as before, every view is breathtaking here and we immediately felt like we were alone in…
It was raining this morning here in Porsmork, with a forecast that showed rain all day. We know this is Iceland. We were planning on a long hike, but we decided to push that until tomorrow and picked a shorter one. Fortunately, we just got Sage a good rain coat and pants at the Hagkaup…
Today we woke up and left our camper for a few days to take a bus into Porsmork. We’ve been wanting to come here since our first trip to Iceland. Porsmork is off of the ring road, a bit into the interior of the island. You can get here by hiking or by a special…