Nearly 'round

As we have made our way around this amazing island, we cannot complain about the wonderful weather mother nature has dished out for us.

Our first Northern Lights experience
The red glow is from the fissure eruption 100 km away

We have had snow fall and needed to plough our way slowly through a winter wonderland.


The road was cleared later in the morning, after we had drive to the place that Dave and Mitch were going caving.
Lawrie and I had booked in to do a whale watching tour, but the snail pace drive made it impossible to get to our destination. As it happens, the seas were going to be a bit rough and not much chance of seeing whales anyway! Instead, we had morning tea at the 'Cow Shed Café' and went on a nature walk. So glad we did, as the sound of silence along the way was incredible and the colours exquisite.

After lunch, we went on a scenic drive (!), which took us past Dettifoss and the most Northern point of our travels thus far.

Yesterday we left our wifi less abode after the car was packed and then unpacked and packed again. This process allowed the second flat tyre of out trip to be changed.
Shopping in Akureyri, picnic lunch at Siglufjordhur and numerous photographic stops were activities participated in before arriving at our current accommodation, a horse themed accommodation and working horse farm.
We are supposed to go on a horse ride this morning, but not sure if it will go ahead, as there is a storm brewing, which is predicted to have winds up to 20 m/s. That will make today's drive to the West Fjords interesting.......