snæfellsjökull

may 10th

the Snæfellsjökull is a glacier that is on a peninsula, which is also a national park.  the glacier is the gateway to the center of the earth, per some book by that name - or something like it.  you can see the glacier behind me from the pebble beach, Djúpalónssandur:

this is a black volcanic beach with debris all over the place from some british shipwreck from like the 40s.  i wondered why someone didn't come around and clean the crap up, but there's actually a sign to leave it all alone.  i don't understand... 

also at this beach, there are lifting stones that fishermen were once tested with.  there are four of them:  Fullsterkur ("full strength") that's 155kg, Hálfsterkur ("half strength") 140 kg, Hálfdrættingur ("Weakling") at 49kg and Amlóði ("Useless") 23kg - you had to at get Weakling up to your hip to be fit to go out to see.  i would not have qualified...this was me with Useless:

will got a bad feeling when we were at this beach and so we got outta there - and good thing we did, i read about the beach after we visited it and apparently it's haunted by ghosts and trolls...who knew

another abandoned farmhouse on the way home

also on the way home, we spotted a new friend...