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| Midnight sunset from Stykkishólmur - looking towards the Westfjords |
Mon 16 July
We stayed one night in Reykjavik, doing much-needed laundry after the hike and enjoying Netflix. I collected our not-so-macho car (Dacia Duster 4WD!) from Lagoon Rental, and we headed north out of the city on a glorious sunny day. After exiting the Hvalfjaroargong, the roads opened out and the views were stunning....
...so much so that I didn’t seen the oncoming police Volvo until he had turned on his blue lights!! The 90kph speed limit is strictly enforced in Iceland, and I was clobbered £275 for 110kph!! The friendly coppers gleefully told me that another 10kph would have doubled the fine.
The Snaefellsnes Peninsula is 100km long and quite simply stunning. We were told at our AirBnB that night that this was the first proper sunny day since April; how lucky. I’m just going to go for photos now - with captions:
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| Walk into rock cleft (name?) |
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| Inside |
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| Hellnar Church |
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| Djupalon Beach |
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| Ben can’t resist a quick construction |
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| Rusting remnants of English trawler Eding, shipwrecked on Djupalon in 1948 |
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| Road up to Snaefellsjkoll glacier |
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| Glacier hidden in the cloud |
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| Onverdarnes lighthouse, with glacier behind |
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| Svortuloft lighthouse |
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| Perfect view of Snaefellsjokull glacier a few hours after we drove up -taken from the north side |
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| Around every corner there is another stunning vista! (Kirkjufell on the right) |
We reached our AirBnB in Stykkishólmur at 9pm, and went for a wander after a quick supper.
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| Stykkishólmur harbour at 10pm |
It was such a glorious evening that we opted to return at 23.30 and watch the sunset from the basalt islet above the harbour. A stunning conclusion to an incredible day.
341 km driven from Reykjavik
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