Chasing Waterfalls
Although the little cabin was the darkest room we’ve had for sleeping so far on this trip, we all somehow woke up tired. We got back on the road around 10:15 and made our first stop to a grocery store to pick up some food for breakfast. I was pleasantly surprised when I found ham inside the croissant I had picked out. It was so good.
We didn’t have to go very far as the first stops of the day were still in Myvan. We make a short visit to Namaskaro which has bubbling, sulphurous mud pits. It smells like rotten eggs and reminded me of what we saw in Yellowstone. Down the road just a short way we stopped where the volcano Krafla last eruped during the 1720’s. Earthquakes between 1975 and 1984 opened up a long volcanic fissure here. We took a nice long (over an hour) hike among the lava field and still steaming fissure and hot spots. Out last stop in Myvatn was Viti, which is Krafla’s flooded volcano crater. We opted not to do the hike around the rim of the crater as we had just gotten down with a long hike, and hiked a crater rim the night before.
We drove for a couple or hours to our next stops of Dettifoss and Sulfoss waterfalls. Dettifoss is Europe’s biggest waterfall in terms of volume, which we could tell with the amount of spray that it was generating. The closer you got to it the more wet you would get. We saw people just soaked from head to toe that ventured down to the lower viewing area. We opted to stay at the higher area and took some pictures and made the short hike down the river to Sulfoss. Sulfoss wasn’t as large, but still very pretty. I enjoyed choosing my path along the rocks to get a little closer.
On the way to our lodging in Seydisfjordur, we found another waterfall along the side of the road which Tom very much enjoyed taking pictures of. We found this waterfall to be much more peacefull and relaxing than the big waterfalls. As a bonus, I was also able to find a geocache here.
The rest of the drive was uneventful until we went up a mountain and the clouds decided to come down. Driving in the fog was near impossible to see where we were going. It was a little scary as we were on a mountain, on a road we have never been on before, and I was leading with 2 cars following me. Thankfully for most of the road they had white lines on the side as well as the center. The whole car was pretty tense and happy when we started to make the descent and come out of the clouds.
The little town of Sydisfjordur is quite quaint and enjoyable to walk through. We had dinner at the local bar where I had some excellent ribs. After dinner, I headed out by myself to snag a couple of more geocaches. The caches took me to some high points with excellent views of the city, and yet another waterfall. I really enjoyed my mini geo-caching adventure. 
The AirBnB we are staying in tonight is an apartment on the second story of an old school house. It is quite spacious, and just perfect for our needs. We couldn’t be happier with our accommodations in this cute town, and are just praying the fog has lifted when we have to drive back out of it.
