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| Happy birthday to me! |
We have a good amount of driving to do today. If Iceland were a clock we are driving the ring road from 6:00 to 3:00, (traveling “against” the clock as they say here). It’s my birthday, so I get my pick. Our first stop is a small waterfall, followed by a short climb to an interpretive sign that explains that the outflow from the glacier kept changing directions flooding out the local farms until they invented the bulldozer. Now the push the outflow wherever they want!
Our GPS suggests that we take a short cut over the mountains, but it was my birthday so I picked the shore route. We had lunch at a little cafe in Fáskrúðsfjörður, which used to have a French hospital for the French fisherman, so all the street names are in French. Because it was my birthday, and because it was pretty much all they had on the menu, we had pizzu og bjor (pizza and beer).
Onward to our strenuous hike, 3 miles with an 800 ft elevation. We climbed to the base of a waterfall. There is iron in the soil, so there are striations of bright red between the layers of basalt created by volcanic eruptions. Deb typically worries about large boulders in precarious position, fearing that they will break loose at any moment. I assure that they have been in that same position for the last thousand years. So Deb asks, “if that’s the case, how come these rocks are on top of the boardwalk?
The bar at the hotel has a pool table. We shot a game of 8 ball, where Deb ran the table. We’re not doing that again for awhile!
We are staying is a small town with a few dining options. There is the American restaurant which serves fried food and ice cream, the fancy hotel on the lake that could seat us after all their hotel guests have eaten, or we could go to the local microbrewery which serves pizzu og bjor. We had a Hawaiian pizza!
Tomorrow is the long awaited basalt canyon.
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