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| If you can't ride, eat mixed nuts and raisins |
This morning started a little earlier than yesterday but by only 30 minutes.. We immediately encountered a lively cross headwind, our speed was down below 10kph and once round a relatively protected headland we were exposed to gusts that stopped us dead. One of these little gusts managed to take me off the road, off my bike and onto the gravel slope, it happened in slow motion and was harmless but seeing the exposed bridge ahead we decided to take shelter by a large sign. The large sign told us that the bridge was constructed very recently as the last one was washed away in 2011 by a jökulhlaup, a type of glacial flood. The wind died down after a few minutes allowing us to get away before another jökulhlaup... Before long we were surrounded by Lupins and to be frank, not much else!
Today was always going to be a relatively short distance as we were aiming for a campsite at Kirkjubæjarklaustur and had the wind carried on even 70km in the day would have been near impossible.
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| Lunch stop |
Today's landscape didn't throw us the specific close ups of yesterday but we did pass some weird and wonderful landscapes, all of which deserve better descriptions than lunar and bosomscape (many mounds with cairns on top..). There are so many different types of landscape, one after another, often with some similarities to other parts of the World, but Iceland's version is always on steroids.
We are still in Southern Iceland but as we move east it is noticeable that the road has become quieter and the landscape more desert like at times. As we approached Kirkjubæjarklaustur we were able to see the imposing form of Hvannadalshnjúkur, Iceland's highest peak at 2110m.
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| Starting to get very quiet |
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| Hvannadalshnjúkur looming |
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| Moss covered lava looking like the surface of the Moon |
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| Disgust at finding his beer is only 2.25% |
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