Today was an all day tour of South Coast! There were 19 of us. Some got picked up at their hotel but I had a 15 minute walk from the Airbnb through the park (it was still dark at 7:45).
Waterfalls, glaciers and gas station stores (with mittens and hats)! But it became a sunny day, only in the 40's, so we were really lucky with the weather. Páll (Paul) played Icelandic music (which I quite enjoyed) when he wasn't talking (quite a bit about his childhood in the area--he even pointed out the house he was born in and the farm he was sent to at the tender age of 11 for the summer).
"Foss" means waterfall (and that accent mark was an unsuccessful attempt to reproduce an Icelandic mark)
I climbed to the top! Very worth it but my knee was complaining on the way down.
"...the rugged Sólheimajökull Glacier. Sólheimajökull is an outlet glacier that flows from main ice-cap of Mýrdalsjökull where the mighty Katla Volcano rests"
This glacier is so diminished that I find it depressing and not at all mighty.
Next was lunch (a mediocre vegan lasagna for me) and then a visit to the Reynisfjara Black Beach.
These have some story about trolls seeing sun and turning into these stone pillars.
Kind of like the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland!
Lastly, another waterfall! I did not go under like so many.
After getting my bag delivered (hooray!) and having a sandwich for dinner, I went to the public baths. They let anyone 67 or over in for free! You have to take a shower in the nude and THEN struggle into your bathing suit. The towel rental was $4! It was nice but noisy with (Brasilian, I think or at least speaking Portuguese) teenagers. There was a pool and two big outdoor hot pools and an older indoor hot pool, a cold tub and two saunas! I wore my contacts and was surprised by a fountain suddenly erupting on me. Everyone seemed to know it was going to happen except me and they scrambled to get out while the teens went into it.
The fountain is on the lower right. It is quite a forceful eruption of water!
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