Spent the day driving around the Snæfellsnes peninsula. The scenery was great, especially on the north coast. The terrain was wild with lots of mountains, lava cones, moss-covered lava and large lava stacks jutting out of the water. We walked out on a black sand beach which was largely stones, and the surrounding ruggedness was gorgeous. We put our hands in the North Atlantic, and it was not surprisingly quite cold. On the beach were 5 'lifting stones' which aspiring fishermen had to prove they could lift in order to be considered seaworthy. The area is littered with pieces of rusted metal from an English ship that was wrecked here in 1948.
We drove passed Snæfellsjökull National Park containing a huge volcano, of which we could only see the bottom half because of low clouds. However, last year we flew over it when returning home from England. Not only is it large enough to see from the plane, but it was snow covered, and likely still is. Jules Verne used this glacier as the setting for his famous 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth.'
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