Sunday, April 3, 2011

Saturday's short trip to Snæfellsnes: Beautiful things I saw

On saturday we took a short trip all the way to the tip of Snæfellsnes along the south coast of it. When we left Reykjavík around 11am the weather was perfect: blue sky, some beautiful white big clouds, the sun shining beautifully, a soft breeze and 5°C. Just perfect.

Skýfall/Clouds falling on the sea
Skýfall (the clouds were falling on the sea)


Djúpalón [Snæfellsnes]
Djúpalón
The plan was to drive all the way to Djúpalón, definetely one of my (many) favourite places. It is a lava field almost on the tip of the peninsula right in front of (the famous) Snæfellsjökull. There are two lagoons with perfect clear water that are surrounded by some crazy lava formations. It was so still that the water was almost a perfect mirror. Breathtaking.

Dritvík [Snæfellsnes]
Dritvík


Dritvík [Snæfellsjökull in the back]
Dritvík and Snæfellsjökull in the back
There is also an amazing black-stone beach where the rusty rests of an old english ship (that ended up there after a bad storm in the 40s) are spread all over. The stones in the beach are all black and wonderfully polished and in the most perfect shapes you can imagine. We were trying to pick up some cool stones to send to Rosana, an argetinian raveler that makes wonders with stones and crochet. We picked up quite a lot of stones so soon some of them will be travelling all the way to Argentina!

Walking among Giants / Dritvík [Snæfellsnes]
Walking among giants



A seal and me
Me next to a giant lava sea
On one of the ends of the beach there are these big lava towers that look like giants walking to the sea to take a dip in the water. It was amazing to be really close to the shore where the waves break and hear the sound of millions of stones being pushed and dragged by the power of the water.

Wow I love this place!

On the way back home everything suddenly changed. Dark clouds took over, the temperature went downt 1°C and began to snow like there is no tomorrow. Unbelievable. Now, while I am writing this... it still (soflty) snowing outside :) So it seems that winter still doesn't want to leave us.

*During most of the trip we were listening to Björk. It is amazing how much sense her music makes when you are out there in nature. It is so easy to understand where her music comes from. It is somehow so organic.




Dritvík

Dritvík
Posted by RodPrjónar at 12:38 AM
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8 comments:

  1. geneviève bjargardóttirApril 3, 2011 at 9:36 AM

    amazing! awww but you do not have any pictures of the snowstorm?

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  2. RodPrjónarApril 3, 2011 at 12:21 PM

    : )
    No, I didn't take any pic of the storm. Silly me :(

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  3. Judi A.April 3, 2011 at 9:04 PM

    In three postings you have captured my attention and know I will be reading every one, as much as possible. Love your photos - that last one looks like a lion's head on a big black bear's body. Sure would love to see it all in person, but thank you for making it possible long distance:-)

    Wow, you have been a prolific knitter in the last couple of years! Knitting is a wonderful time filler, enabler of keeping our sanity, and giver of great personal satisfication. Since I don't know you personally, I was wondering what happened to med school and is health care the field you are in now? Don't know how that works in other countries. By the way, thanks for posting in English! :-)

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  4. RodPrjónarApril 4, 2011 at 9:47 AM

    Hi Judi.

    Thank you so much for your nice and generous words. With comments like your who wouldn't feel encouraged to continue blogging?

    I hadn't noticed the lion head and bear body!

    Knitting actually kept my sanity, I can tell you that, hehe.

    Med school: finished. When I moved to Iceland things were a bit shaky but things are back on track and I am now: working in the health care field + studying icelandic + knitting as much as time allows.

    Thanks again for your comment again!

    One question: do you knit?

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  5. Judi A.April 4, 2011 at 6:00 PM

    Yes, Rod, I knit. I spent a greater share of my childhood in the state of Michigan that has cold,snowy winters. In the 9th grade, a friend kept coming to school in these gorgeous fair isle sweaters and I asked her where she got them, and so many! She casually responded, "Oh, my dad knits them for me." She connected me with him and thus began my experience of knitting. It's been an off again-on again thing throughout my life of being busy raising children, working, etc. A couple of years ago I picked it up, again!, and encountered a huge learning curve with all the new and different yarns and new and different techniques. It's challenging, but I am enjoying it and it gives me something to do some evenings in front of the TV rather than feel like I'm wasting time. :-)

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  6. Kristín HrundApril 11, 2011 at 11:18 AM

    Snæfellsnesið er svo dásamlegt! Get ekki beðið eftir að komast þangað í dagsferðir í sumar! Fallegar myndir sem þú tókst þarna...

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  7. RodPrjónarApril 11, 2011 at 12:20 PM

    Snæfellsnesið er ÆÐISLEGT! Sérstaklega Djúpalónið og Dritvík. Ég hlakka svo til í að fara þangað aftur í sumar!
    Ég er búinn að fara tvisvar þangað en ég náði aldrei að sjá Snæfellsjökul vegna skýjanna sem voru alltaf ofan á honum : (

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  8. Kristín HrundApril 11, 2011 at 1:28 PM

    :-( Það tekst örugglega næst - fátt er betra en fallegur sumardagur á Snæfellsnesi!

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