Day 11 – Snow and Beach

sorry, only google translate 🙁

After we could not reach the bird cliff the day before, we dared another try. At first everything went well, but then we stood with the car in front of a well 70cm deep and 5m wide snow drift. However, as the path behind it seemed to be passable, we decided to take a decision with a tin can and a cooking pot. Well 10 minutes later that was also done and we could go on, only about 1km later before the next, this time impassable drift. Even the tractor with shovel, which had now been brought in by us, had problems to pass this, which is why we decided to let the cliff become a cliff and instead look at the largest sandy beach in Iceland.

Already surreal, a picture book beach framed by snowy mountains, ice and glaciers. After we had been there for a while, we went back along the coast from the Westfjords and into the peninsula Snaeffelsnes where we expected some highlights for the next day …

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